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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Author: Proclamation!
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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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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