Stories of Faith: Journey From Fear To Faith
BARBRA CREW SCHAAK | Retired English Teacher Within the march of a few years we have journeyed from a works-based religion toward a new belief system based on faith. The […]
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Author: Proclamation!
Universalism: Assessing the Faulty Premises
VERLE STREIFLING, PhD | Minister, Author, And Missionary Universalism first appeared in Christianity in the late second century with Clement of Alexandria, whose student, Origen, (185–250 ad) systematically developed it. But it […]
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I missed out on cheeseburgers, but I found the feast!
AERIN TOUSSAINT About seven years ago, my family left the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Looking back, it is amazing to remember the proud feeling I had when I could tell someone […]
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Biblical Inspiration and Ellen G. White
RUSSELL KELLY | Baptist, Converted to Adventism, and Returned Baptist 1976: “That the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament were given by inspiration of God, and contain an […]
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You Must Count the Cost
GREG TAYLOR | Former Adventist Pastor There is a tendency in faith communities to share the joys of the Christian life in such a way that it appears to be […]
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The Law Fulfilled [Jesus Reveals His Mission in Matthew 5]
HAROLDO CAMACHO | Former Adventist Pastor The many references to the Law and the Old Testament in the Gospel of Matthew indicate that Matthew wrote this “Good News” with the […]
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What Are the Works of the Devil?
WILLIAM HOHMANN | Former Member, Worldwide Church of God The one who practices sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God […]
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Prayers I Didn’t Know to Pray
LIVING BY THE SPIRIT WITH CORA HOLDER | Nurse Raise a shout for God, all the earth; sing the glory of His name, make glorious His praise. Selah. Come and […]
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The Nature of Man and Death
VERLE STREIFLING, PhD | Minister, Author, And Missionary In her Dec 12 1844 vision, Ellen White records Jesus and her ‘winging our way upward’ in heaven, and “here we saw […]
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My Heart is Free!
AARIKA SHEWMAKE | Story of Faith REPUBLISHED FROM PROCLAMATION!, FALL 2013 I am seventeen and the youngest of four siblings. I grew up attending a Seventh-day Adventist church since I […]
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Confessions of a Pastor’s Daughter
JANICE O. BRANTLEY | I was born exactly seven minutes before my identical twin sister, and thirteen months after my older sister. My parents, of West-Indian descent, were careful to […]
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Seeing WITHOUT the Lens of Adventism
ANTHONY ANDREOLA | Blogger and Health Program Specialist I grew up Seventh-day Adventist. I don’t blame my parents; they believed they were obeying God by teaching me Adventism. They had been […]
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The Problem With Pride
TERRY MIRRA As I sat in Bible study one evening, the discussion came around to the popular “it’s all about me” T-shirts, and how Christians shouldn’t encourage their children to […]
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Now Is the Right Time to Claim Salvation
MIKE MEHARRY Ellen White wrote several times that one cannot say “I am saved”: No man can say I am saved until he has endured test and trial, until he has […]
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Unmasking the Cultic Spirit
SAMUEL PESTES A cult is a simple structure designed to lock you inside a religious or psychological box. It raises walls all around you ostensibly to protect you from danger. […]
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