October 5–11, 2024
Lesson 2: “Signs of Divinity” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Life Assurance Ministries Problems with this lesson: This week’s Sabbath School lesson breezes over three of John’s most revealing accounts of Jesus’ true […]
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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.
We Got Mail
I Need Help Exiting This Mess I’m in my 40s, a fourth-generation Adventist pastor’s kid. I just need some help trying to get out of this mess, and I need […]
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September 28–October 4, 2024
Lesson 1: “Signs That Point the Way” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Life Assurance Ministries Problems with this lesson: This quarter the Sabbath School lessons are a series focussing on the gospel of […]
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We Got Mail
Response to “Messing With the Trinity” I never knew how badly Seventh-day Adventists deny Christ as God. Even in their Heavenly Trio, they seem to accept Jesus as PART of […]
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September 21–27, 2024
Lesson 13: “The Risen Lord” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Life Assurance Ministries Problems with this lesson: This lesson covers the end of Mark 15:42–16:6 where Mark writes about Jesus’ resurrection. Yet although […]
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We Got Mail
I Have Come to Know Jesus I hope this message finds you well. I wanted to reach out to express my heartfelt gratitude for the impact your podcast (Former Adventist […]
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Does Protestantism Have All the Truth?
COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Life Assurance Ministries The question is universal among those who have left Adventism (or any other group with a false gospel and a twisted soteriology): how do we […]
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September 14–20, 2024
Lesson 12: “Tried and Crucified” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Life Assurance Ministries Problems with this lesson: In this week’s lesson covering Mark 15 and the crucifixion of the Lord Jesus, the Sabbath […]
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We Got Mail
Reflections from a former Worldwide Church of God member So what has been challenging? The fact that there is no “redo button”. I spent 50 years in a world that […]
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September 7–13, 2024
Lesson 11: “Taken and Tried” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Life Assurance Ministries Problems with this lesson: This lesson deals with Mark 14 which opens with Jesus’ being anointed with perfume at Simon […]
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We Got Mail
Grief For the Lost Years I wanted to thank you for emailing Proclamation! magazine to me every week. (Yeah, I know there are a lot of other people involved. Thankful […]
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Paul Teaches Us To Love
COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Life Assurance Ministries When I was an Adventist, the apostle Paul seemed almost out of reach. His epistles were obviously deep and theologically meaty, but I often felt […]
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Safe With Our Shepherd
COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Life Assurance Ministries Southern California has secrets. Unless a person knows her well, So Cal appears worldly and sophisticated—and indeed, she is in many ways. She has, however, […]
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August 31—September 6, 2024
Lesson 10: “The Last Days” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Life Assurance Ministries Problems with this lesson: This week’s lesson addresses Mark 12:41–44 through Mark 13:32. Here Mark recounts Jesus’s teaching about things […]
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We Got Mail
Clarity and Understanding To Leave I want to thank you for the Former Adventist Podcast.…In March of 2020 I received a transformed life through the true gospel preached…I went from […]
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