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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Author: Colleen Tinker
Colleen Tinker, the editor of Proclamation! magazine, and her husband Richard left Adventism in 1998 with their two sons, Roy and Nathanael, who were in grades six and ten. They have co-led the Former Adventist Fellowship since 1999. Colleen, a graduate of Walla Walla University, is a former high school English teacher and also the former managing editor of Adventist Today magazine. Colleen became the stepmother of Roy and Nathanael in 1989, and in 2008 she adopted them. Romans 8:15-17 has assumed new depth and significance for her and Richard since she and her sons chose to claim each other legally and permanently. She and Richard share an office and a commitment to sharing the gospel of the true Jesus with all of those seeking a way out of the bondage of the false gospel of Adventism.
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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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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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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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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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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November 2–8, 2024
Lesson 6: “More Testimonies About Jesus” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine Problems with this lesson: This week’s lesson compiles passages from John 1, John 3, and John 5, 6, and 7 […]
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Childhood Friend About To Marry an Adventist My daughter has a good friend who grew up with her in church and even shared an apartment with her after college. They […]
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The Smoke and Glory of True Worship
COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine As Nikki Stevenson and I are walking through the book of Romans in the Former Adventist Podcast, we are bumping against many deeply rooted ideas that […]
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October 26–November 1, 2024
Lesson 5: “The Testimony of the Samaritans” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine Problems with this lesson: The story of the Samaritan woman at the well in John 4 contains one of […]
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Word of Man or Word of God
COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! We had been attending Trinity Church for close to two years. Nourished by the Bible teaching we received every week in church as well as in the […]
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October 19–25, 2024
Lesson 4: “Witnesses of Christ as the Messiah” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Life Assurance Ministries Problems with this lesson: This quarter’s lessons are especially frustrating because they skate over the significance of […]
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Good News In Spades It is fascinating and thrilling to listen to these two ladies [Former Adventist Podcast] dialog on the doctrines of justification. I would recommend that not only […]
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October 12–18, 2024
Lesson Three: “The Backstory: The Prologue” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Life Assurance Ministries Problems with this lesson: This week’s lesson addresses John 1 in which John echoes Genesis 1:1, presenting the Lord […]
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Is Our Sin Ours—Or Is It Imputed? I am a little confused about “imputed” sin. Our sin was imputed to Jesus, but was our sin literally ours, or was it […]
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