From Despair to Life
CHARLES COCHRAN | Retired High School Teacher When I look back, I’m still puzzled as to why I converted from my Southern Baptist upbringing to Adventism. I was born again when […]
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January 4–10, 2025
Lesson 2: “Covenantal Love” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine Problems with this lesson: This lesson is especially difficult to examine because it selectively focusses on collections of texts and on descriptions […]
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We Got Mail
Podcast Such an Eye-opener Hi Colleen and Nikki! I listen to your Former Adventist Podcast weekly without fail. I always gain something new and pertinent to my life. In a recent […]
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Repeating What We Know
NICOLE STEVENSON | Co-Host, Former Adventist Podcast Well, we made it! It’s the last Friday of 2024, and here we sit together on the doorstep of 2025. It’s easy to feel like […]
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What Is Integrity?
CAROLYN MACOMBER | The Life Examined What does it mean to live with integrity? The word “integrity” is defined as the state of being whole and undivided. The opposite of […]
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The Promise That Led Us Out
BEN AND DELINA MCPHAULL | Faith Story When Ben and Delina McPhaull married, their vows included (Ben): I promise to guide, protect and provide for you, so together we can […]
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December 28, 2024–January 3, 2025
Lesson 1: “God Loves Freely” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine The author of this quarter’s lessons, John C. Peckham, is, to quote Kaspars Ozolins’ recent article in Proclamation!, “Adventism and Recent […]
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We Got Mail
The Trinity Is Not “Three gods”, and Oneness Is Heresy It’s a great work you’re doing, helping fellow brothers and sisters to leave the anti-Christ Seventh—day Adventist cult. I came […]
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We Got Mail
How to Help Adventists See Truth I am a former Adventist and … I have a circle of Adventist friends whom the Holy Spirit is pouring out on, and yet […]
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Jesus—God Born a Baby
COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine I’ve always loved Christmas—but for many years I felt let down by the holiday. It never quite seemed to yield the magic and peace […]
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The Sabbath: From Ritual to Reality
DALE RATZLAFF | Pastor and Founder, Life Assurance Ministries (1936–2024) A farmer in the med-west had a small apple orchard that his cows occasionally would get into, so he decided to build […]
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Confessions of a Former Adventist
RODNEY D. NELSON | Faith Story I fondly recall my experience in that small Adventist church in the Yakima Valley of Washington State. It was a church full of loving […]
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December 21–27, 2024
Lesson 13: “Epilogue: Knowing Jesus and His Word” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine Problems with this lesson: This last lesson of the quarter on the gospel is most clearly dedicated to […]
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Adventism and Recent Developments in Evangelical Scholarship
KASPARS OZOLINS | Assistant Professor of Old Testament Interpretation, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Last month I was at the annual biblical scholarly conferences that take place every year in November in […]
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Wise Men Still Seek Him
DALE RATZLAFF | Pastor and Founder, Life Assurance Ministries (1936–2024) What is significant about the story of the magi? On the back window of a pickup I recently saw a decal which […]
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