WE ARE GENTILES, NOT SPIRITUAL ISRAEL—PART 2
By Colleen Tinker After last week’s blog addressing “spiritual Israel” and the fact that Adventism cannot be considered to be “spiritual Israel” and that the law was never required […]
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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 ARE GENTILES, NOT SPIRITUAL ISRAEL
By Colleen Tinker Occasionally we receive letters from former Adventists who still argue that the Sabbath was a holy day set apart at creation for all humanity. They sometimes […]
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WE DO NOT KEEP THE NINE
By Colleen Tinker Recently we received an email asking a question we hear quite frequently. This is the email: Since leaving Adventism I have had a sense of peace […]
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ADVENTISM KEEPS A PHYSICAL SABBATH
By Colleen Tinker In December, the Adventist Review completed its seven-month series, Digging Deeper of what they called Adventism’s Core Beliefs. Beginning in June the magazine featured a different Core […]
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THEY ALL DISAGREE—SEARCHING FOR TRUE ADVENTISM
By Colleen Tinker The problem of pinning down “official” Adventist teaching is alive and well. In fact, Tim Martin from The Centers for Apologetics Research has been writing a […]
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THEIR TESTIMONY SHOCKS THE WORLD
By Colleen Tinker The story is familiar—but how can we believe it? It’s a story that begins in Luke 1. Israel had not had a word from God in […]
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ADVENTISTS ANNOUNCE “BRAND PROMISE”
By Colleen Tinker This week on December 3, 2018, Adventist News Network (ANN) announced that the Adventist organization has adopted a new “brand promise” as its public identity. “We […]
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LOOKING AROUND THE TABLE
By Colleen Tinker They say that Thanksgiving is the most-travelled holiday of the year. Even though Christmas is perhaps the most sentimental holiday, Thanksgiving is the celebration that gets […]
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BEWARE OF BABYLON: ADVENTISM’S SIXTH CORE BELIEF EXAMINED
By Colleen Tinker This month the Adventist Review is presenting its sixth “core belief” of Adventism in its “Digging Deeper” series. While Adventism has 28 Fundamental Beliefs, the Review […]
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WE SPEAK THE TRUTH IN LOVE
By Colleen Tinker People always have opinions about what we at Life Assurance Ministries should say when we talk about Adventism, and many do not hesitate to tell us […]
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DON’T TOUCH THE UNCLEAN THINGS
By Colleen Tinker Recently we received a letter asking a good question about “unclean things”. The whole subject of unclean meats and other foods marginalized by the Adventist health […]
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JUDGMENT: THE CORE OF ADVENTIST BELIEFS
By Colleen Tinker This month the Adventist Review has released its fifth of seven podcasts and clusters of articles expounding on what they call “the core beliefs of Seventh-day […]
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ARE YOU A DISHONEST ADVENTIST?
By Colleen Tinker When I was still an Adventist, I believed that I saw the flaws of the organization and that I had divorced myself from the historic, cultic […]
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“HELP! MY FIANCE IS AN ADVENTIST!”
By Colleen Tinker A couple of months ago, we received an email from a Christian woman who was engaged to an Adventist. They had dated for two years, and […]
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GRIEVING DIFFERENTLY
By Colleen Tinker This week is surreal—my mother just died. She’s been on hospice care, and we have known that she is declining steadily, but last week on her […]
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