Is Our Love Too Tough?
COLLEEN TINKER Our advanced placement senior English class was small; we might even have called ourselves “special”. We met, seminar-style, around a large table with Mrs. Winter—our seasoned, eccentric teacher—at […]
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Lord, Increase Our Faith
DALE RATZLAFF Faith is a little word that is given major emphasis in the New Testament. Most of us know the “faith verses” from memory such as, “For by grace […]
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18. The Lord’s Supper: From the Bible or Tradition
Adventism’s Fundamental Belief #16: The Lord’s Supper is a participation in the emblems of the body and blood of Jesus as an expression of faith in Him, our Lord and Savior. […]
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“He Has Done All Things Well”: A Personal Update to My Testimony
KASPARS OZOLINS My first post for Proclamation! blog post (back in January, 2019) was my own testimony of coming to faith in Jesus and eventually leaving Seventh-day Adventism and joining […]
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Who is the Source?
COLLEEN TINKER Editor’s note: The following article was written in 2009. In 2015 the General Conference in session changed the wording of Fundamental Belief #18 concerning Ellen White as the […]
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We Got Mail
Reading Revelation Through A Colored Lens I commend you for taking up the reading and discussion on the books of Daniel and Revelation. Too often we read books through a […]
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17. Baptism: Should Baptism be Required for Membership?
Adventism’s Fundamental Belief #15: By baptism we confess our faith in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and testify of our death to sin and of our purpose to walk […]
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April 29–May 5
Lesson 6: “The Hour of His Judgment” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: The lesson ignores the fact that Adventist scholars have long known that the framework for explaining […]
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My Anger and Four Hard Lessons
MICHAEL PURSLEY From the get-go, let me tell you that I did not have this list in my hip pocket, far from it! This list jelled gradually as I slowly […]
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Are There More Gods than One?
Redeemer Catechism Series, Question 8 JORDAN QUINLEY In this series, we are working our way through the Redeemer Catechism. Having learned what God is and how we can know there […]
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16. Unity in the Body of Christ: Their Church or The Church?
Fundamental Belief #14: The church is one body with many members, called from every nation, kindred, tongue, and people. In Christ we are a new creation; distinctions of race, culture, learning, […]
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We Got Mail
Should I Be Baptized Again? I emailed a few years ago about leaving the Adventist church; Colleen was so helpful and encouraging in answering my questions and guiding me. God […]
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April 22–28, 2023
Lesson 5: “The Good News of Judgment” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: The lesson assumes that “God’s Judgment” is the investigative judgment. The author relies on EGWs characterization […]
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I Do Well to be Angry
MARTIN CAREY Have you ever been angry with God? Most of us have, for many different reasons. According to researcher Julie Exline, 62% of all adults have reported feeling angry […]
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