Part 1: Less Than Human?
RICHARD FREDERICKS, PH.D. | Former Adventist Pastor The apostle John Wrote: “Dear children, let us not love simply with our words and tongues, but with our deeds and in truth” […]
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Author: Proclamation!
Logical Fallacies in Biblical Interpretation
VERLE STREIFLING | Retired Pastor and Theologian Having seen some 35 methods of scripture twisting which cults frequently use to pervert God’s truth (last issue), we will now review numerous logical […]
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Leaving Adventism, Embracing the Gospel
ELCE-JUNIOR “THUNDER” LAURISTON | Christian Minister I was born almost accidentally in Haiti on a small island known in French as Ile de La Tortue, and in Spanish as Tortuga […]
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Why do so many reject assurance of eternal life?
MIKE GENDRON | Proclaiming the Gospel: A Ministry to Roman Catholics Several years ago a pastor in Pennsylvania, concerned for the salvation of the many Roman Catholics in his community, […]
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The Sabbath Trumpet: An Uncertain Sound
VERLE STREIFLING | Retired Pastor and Theologian A few days ago, as my friend was witnessing in the mall, she was given a tract distributed by The Voice of Prophecy […]
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From Despair to Life
CHARLES COCHRAN | Retired High School Teacher When I look back, I’m still puzzled as to why I converted from my Southern Baptist upbringing to Adventism. I was born again when […]
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Confessions of a Former Adventist
RODNEY D. NELSON | Faith Story I fondly recall my experience in that small Adventist church in the Yakima Valley of Washington State. It was a church full of loving […]
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Come Experience the Joy of Jesus
THOMAS FRANCIS | Broadcasting, Insurance, and Law Enforcement Jesus said, “These things I have spoken to you that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be […]
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Recant, no! I stand firm.
WALTER REA | Author of The White Lie Editor’s Note: In 1982 Walter Rea published The White Lie after Seventh-day Adventist administrators failed to keep their promise to reveal Ellen […]
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I Stand Alone On the Word of God
ESTHER SHU | Faith Story My mother and my father came from large families of thirteen and eleven children, respectively. My mother completed third grade, and my father completed seventh. […]
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Transitioning to the New Covenant
CLAY PECK | Former Adventist Pastor Originally published in the March/April 2002 print edition of Proclamation! Some of you transitioned long ago. Some of you transitioned more recently. Some of […]
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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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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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