Guest – Proclamation! Online Magazine | Former Adventist Fellowship

I Was Approached By Suffering

January 16, 2025 Guest Faith Story, Feature, Gospel, Guest

JOHNNY | Teen Believer Jesus hasn’t approached me in any special way, like in a vision or in a dream; and He doesn’t approach most of us that way. If […]

A “Never-Been” Discovers the Truth About Adventism

January 2, 2025 Guest Devotional, Faith Story, Feature

DEBORAH PRATT | Life Assurance Ministries’ Moderator It’s been 11, going on 12 years now, since I first found this group called the Former Adventist Fellowship (FAF). From finding articles […]

Rescued! How God Went Deep For Me

August 22, 2024 Guest Faith Story, Feature

STANLEY ROUHE | Christ-Follower and Neurosurgeon (1943–2011) This is a story about salvation—a deep-water rescue. For years I believed that salvation and the judgment were to be determined by behavior. […]

Library of Congress Responds to “The Desire of Ages” Myth

August 8, 2024 Guest Adventist News, Ellen G. White, Feature

Letter to the United States Library of Congress Library of Congress 101 Independence Ave, SE Washington, DC 20540-4660 Dear Librarian, I was recently told at a Seventh-day Adventist prophecy seminar […]

12. Isaiah, Revelation, and the Eternal Sabbath

July 11, 2024 Guest Feature, Jerry Rector, New Covenant, The Law of God, The Sabbath, The Sabbath Fulfilled

JERRY RECTOR | Physician A last Sabbath argument comes from the last chapter of Isaiah. In fact, the last few chapters are devoted to the promise of heavenly redemption, the New Jerusalem, […]

11. What About James and the “Royal Law”?

July 4, 2024 Guest Feature, Jerry Rector, New Covenant, The Law of God, The Sabbath, The Sabbath Fulfilled

JERRY RECTOR | Physician A favorite Sabbath text, used by the late Adventist television evangelist George Vandeman and others is in James 2. The context of this passage is a warning against […]

10. Hebrews and the Old Covenant Shadows

June 27, 2024 Guest Feature, Jerry Rector, New Covenant, The Law of God, The Sabbath, The Sabbath Fulfilled

JERRY RECTOR | Physician Hebrews is the last scriptural area that I want to cover. It is directed to Jews, obviously, and uses familiar Old Covenant terminology to establish Jesus with the […]

9. Romans On the New Covenant

June 20, 2024 Guest Gospel, Jerry Rector, New Covenant, The Law of God, The Sabbath, The Sabbath Fulfilled

JERRY RECTOR | Physician Romans is quite a primer on the New Covenant, and I seem to notice something different each time I study it, though I don’t pretend to understand all […]

8. Colossians and the Law

June 13, 2024 Guest Feature, Jerry Rector, New Covenant, The Law of God, The Sabbath, The Sabbath Fulfilled

JERRY RECTOR | Physician The book of Colossians also has a purpose of refocusing the emphasis of these Gentile Christian churches back on the gospel from other elements that would lead them […]

7. Galatians and the Law

June 6, 2024 Guest Feature, Jerry Rector, New Covenant, The Law of God, The Sabbath, The Sabbath Fulfilled

JERRY RECTOR | Physician Let’s move from here then to the book of Galatians whose stated purpose is to respond to “Judaizing Christians” who were urging traditional Jewish worship on the newly […]

6. What About Paul and the Sabbath?

May 30, 2024 Guest Feature, Jerry Rector, New Covenant, The Law of God, The Sabbath, The Sabbath Fulfilled

JERRY RECTOR | Physician In the past, as a Sabbath keeper, I used the argument that since Paul kept the Sabbath, that was evidence that we should too. However, the Bible does […]

5. The Law Fulfilled

May 23, 2024 Guest Feature, Jerry Rector, New Covenant, The Law of God, The Sabbath, The Sabbath Fulfilled

JERRY RECTOR | Physician So, I think you’ll agree that what Jesus is stating in Matthew 5:17 is that He has come to fulfill the entire Old Testament. Then in verse 18, […]

4. Jesus and Rituals

May 16, 2024 Guest Books, Feature, Jerry Rector, New Covenant, The Sabbath, The Sabbath Fulfilled

JERRY RECTOR | Physician Should our desire to follow Jesus’ example translate into Sabbath-keeping? I’d like to highlight a couple of points about how Jesus related to the rituals of his day. […]

3. Israel Learns of the Sabbath

May 9, 2024 Guest Books, Doctrine, Feature, Jerry Rector, New Covenant, The Sabbath, The Sabbath Fulfilled

JERRY RECTOR | Physician There is no record of Joseph getting in trouble in Potiphar’s house or in jail for keeping Sabbath. No record of Pharaoh desecrating the Sabbath by making the Jews […]

2. Did Abraham Keep the Sabbath?

May 2, 2024 Guest Doctrine, Feature, Jerry Rector, The Sabbath, The Sabbath Fulfilled

JERRY RECTOR | Physician So we come to Abraham. God communes with him and they develop an amazing relationship. Paul says his faith was credited to him as righteousness, as […]