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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The Cross of Christmas
SCOTT BLAKEY Think of it. That blessed night in Bethlehem has become such a well-known, oft-told story, we sometimes forget the full meaning of that night—why this seemingly humble birth […]
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Avoiding Bible Fender Benders
VERLE STREIFLING We will review some 34 methods of ‘Scripture Twisting’ commonly used to pervert the truth. 1. Inaccurate Quotation: Like reading the road sign “Slow Men at work” as […]
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Necessary Divorce
Beyond Leaving the Adventist Pew TERRY MIRRA Divorce is an ugly word. It evokes images of fighting, legal battles, and dissension of every sort. Divorce is defined as: “total separation; […]
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Healed From My Shame
LIZ CHURCH My story is similar to that of the blind man whose story is recorded in Mark 8:22-26. Jesus healed him in “stages”, first giving him partial sight so […]
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Finally Forever Free in Jesus
Former general counsel for Loma Linda University Medical Center BILL ZIPRICK Come with me while I share the journey on which God took me when I came out from Adventism […]
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I Chose the Cross
CHRIS BADENHORST I plunged fully into Adventism, getting involved with every possible aspect of it. But because it could not provide me with a sound Gospel foundation on which to […]
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Are You Being Led By a Judas Goat?
MICHAEL PURSLEY There is an old story that emerged years ago from the stockyards in Chicago. The stock handlers could not find an effective way to get the sheep from […]
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The True Church Not an Institution
[CHRIS BADENHORST] Many Christian denominational creeds or statements of faith describe the nature of the Christian Church in the language of The Nicene Creed (AD 325) as the “one, holy, […]
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Reflections on Justification by Faith
[RICHARD GOYNE] In past issues of Proclamation! there have been noteworthy articles by various authors dealing with such pertinent topics as the liberating power of the gospel, the Sabbath, the […]
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Protecting the Faith Given To Us
CHRIS BADENHORST Often former Adventists are asked why they don’t just “leave Adventism alone”. Everyone is free to believe whatever he or she wants to believe, they say, but […]
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