December 30, 2023–January 5, 2024
Lesson 1: “How to Read the Psalms” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: This week we begin a new lesson quarterly entitled Psalms, and this first week focusses on “How […]
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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.
Christmas Tree Teaches Redemption
COLLEEN TINKER “Christmas trees are pagan. We have no business celebrating Jesus’s birth with symbols of idolatry!” Many people grew up in Adventist homes where this attitude dominated Christmas. A […]
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Please Expose the Quarterly’s “Galatians” We are intrigued with your exposure of the Adventist SS Quarterly and the deflective manipulation of Scripture. It is jaw-dropping stuff. A few years ago […]
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December 23–29, 2023
Lesson. 13: “The End of God’s Mission” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: • This lesson reveals Adventism’s tritheistic godhead and their assumed “mission”.• This lesson assumes the great controversy […]
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We Got Mail
Relieved Not To Feel Crazy I left the Adventist church when I became a freshman in college and have never wanted to go back, even though I couldn’t identify exactly […]
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O Little Town of Bethlehem
COLLEEN TINKER In 2008 Richard and I experienced one of the most significant gifts God has ever given us (apart from saving us and giving us family): a two-week trip […]
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December 16–22, 2023
Lesson 12: “Esther and Mordecai” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: This lesson once again appropriates the word of God as an instruction manual for Adventist proselytizing. This week the […]
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Adventists Are Rejecting Jesus’s Covenant Finally, I understand. The Adventist church (because it is based on the Old Covenant, and its commandments, and its Sabbath signs) spends a lot of […]
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December 9–15, 2023
Lesson 11: “Mission to the Unreached: Part 2” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: In Part 2 of “Mission to the Unreached”, the focus of the author is to teach […]
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Former Adventists Give to the Church
COLLEEN TINKER The day I first understood the new covenant changed me forever. As an Adventist I couldn’t have explained how the new covenant “worked”, although I had heard the phrase. […]
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Trouble With Hell Thank you for your patience with me. I’m having problems with the issue of hell burning for ever, everlasting destruction, and the comparison of it with the […]
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December 2–8, 2023
Lesson 10: “Mission to the Unreached: Part 1” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: In this lesson the agenda of Adventist evangelism reveals itself even further. The artificial divisions of […]
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Health Message—Tactics of Grooming and Abuse As I read Colleen Tinker’s commentary on the Sabbath School lesson in the November 17 issue of the weekly Proclamation! magazine I was struck […]
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November 25–December 1, 2023
Lesson 9: “Mission To the Powerful” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: The fact that the Sabbath School department felt the need to devote an entire week to evangelizing the […]
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We Got Mail
Why Is My Wife Scared of Revelation? I have a question. My family has been going to a community church, and the pastor is doing a sermon series on Revelation. […]
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