Category: Sabbath School Commentary

Lesson 9: “Sin, the Gospel, and the Law” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine |  Adventist, when you sin, how do you restore your relationship with God—or do you actually have a relationship […]

Lesson 8: “Having Faith” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine |  For Adventists, faith is frustrating attempt to believe well enough to obtain what one hopes to receive while trying to suppress the […]

Lesson 7: “Practical Prayer” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine |  Adventist—what is the purpose of prayer in your life and in your church life? How do you make it “personal”, and what […]

Lesson 6: “Prayer Warriors” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine |  Adventist, does prayer feel like an obligation to you? A necessary chore that is your lifeline to connect with God? Do you […]

Lesson 5: “How to Study the Bible” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine |  In your experience, what’s the best thing about Bible study? What’s the thing you like the least—or perhaps dread […]

Lesson 4: “The Role of the Bible” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine |  Adventist, what is your authority? As an Adventist, I was taught that the Bible was my authority, the source […]

Lesson 1: “Reality Check” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine |  Adventist, what do you mean when you claim to be part of the Church of Laodicea? Do you mean that Adventism is […]

Lesson 13: “Standing in All the Will of God” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine |  Adventist, I have a question for you: how do you understand Paul’s apostleship in the context of […]

Lesson 12: “Living With Each Other” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine |  Adventist, what is the proper role of the husband and the wife in a marriage? What does it mean that […]

Lesson 11: “Living with Christ” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine |  Adventism cannot explain the Christian life because it has an unbiblical view of the nature of man. Adventism’s physicalism—its belief that […]

Lesson 10: “Complete In Christ” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine |  This week’s lesson deals with one of the clearest declarations in Scripture that the law and the fourth commandment are fulfilled […]

Lesson 9: “Reconciliation and Hope” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine |  Adventists, I have a question for you: what is the gospel? While we’re at it, I have another couple of questions […]

Lesson 7: “A Heavenly Citizenship” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine |  Adventism systematically morphs every passage of Paul’s epistles to put people UNDER the law. Instead of teaching Paul’s central message that […]

Lesson 6: “Confidence Only in Christ” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine |  As an Adventist, what did you understand in meant to be “in Christ”? How did you get to be “in […]