Transitioning to the New Covenant
CLAY PECK | Former Adventist Pastor Originally published in the March/April 2002 print edition of Proclamation! Some of you transitioned long ago. Some of you transitioned more recently. Some of […]
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November 23–29, 2024
Lesson 9: “The Source of Life” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine Problems with this lesson: The confusion of Adventism attempting to teach Jesus as the Source of life in the context […]
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We Got Mail
I Can’t Find Evidence That Sabbath Was Changed I am so glad I came across your website. I come from the Russian Orthodox background, and I ended up attending a […]
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How can I be born again?
COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine Adventism uniquely marks all of us who have lived inside that worldview. Everything we thought we knew was tainted, just “a quarter of a turn” off. […]
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Stories of Faith: Journey From Fear To Faith
BARBRA CREW SCHAAK | Retired English Teacher Within the march of a few years we have journeyed from a works-based religion toward a new belief system based on faith. The […]
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Why repeat the Gospel?
DALE RATZLAFF | Pastor and Founder, Life Assurance Ministries (1936–2024) Republished and edited from Proclamation!, November/December 2008 Question: Why do you keep repeating your understanding of the gospel? Answer: In this world of good […]
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November 16–22, 2024
Lesson 8: “Fulfilling Old Testament Prophecies” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine Problems with this lesson: True to form for this quarter’s Sabbath School lessons, this week’s studies are not overtly “wrong”. […]
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We Got Mail
Help From Zambia I happened across your ministry from an interview on the Cultish podcast. I am a missionary in the Western Province of Zambia. There is a significant Adventist […]
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Take the Cure For Self-Righteousness
RICHARD FOSTER | Contributor Also He spoke this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: “Two men went up to the temple to […]
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You Must Be Born Again
DALE RATZLAFF | Pastor and Founder, Life Assurance Ministries (1936–2024) At Life Assurance Ministries we often speak of the “simple gospel of Jesus Christ.” It is simple in that even a child […]
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Universalism: Assessing the Faulty Premises
VERLE STREIFLING, PhD | Minister, Author, And Missionary Universalism first appeared in Christianity in the late second century with Clement of Alexandria, whose student, Origen, (185–250 ad) systematically developed it. But it […]
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November 9–15, 2024
Lesson 7: “Blessed Are Those Who Believe” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine Problems with this lesson: This lesson represents itself as explaining the blessings of “belief”, but the essence of “belief” […]
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We Got Mail
Was there “new birth” in the Old Testament? If since Adam we’re all born spiritually dead, how can the new birth not occur in the OT? What am I misunderstanding? […]
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No Compromise!
NICOLE STEVENSON | Co-Host, Former Adventist Podcast After being born again my sense of identity and reality was permanently changed. I knew I had a new Father—a new God! I knew I […]
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We Got Mail
From Adventist To Catholic Confusion I was raised Adventist and left because of the never-ending terror of The Last Judgement. As a teen I went to no less than four […]
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