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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Waging War with Shadows
Colossians 2:16–17 DENNIS PALMER “So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or Sabbaths, which are a shadow of […]
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No Fear in Resurrection Life!
THOMAS FRANCISHome with Jesus, April 2, 2009 Daily, the headlines tell the grim news. “Markets Down”, “More Jobs Lost”, “Major Corporation To Declare Bankruptcy!” You can feel danger in […]
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The Resurrection and The Life
SCOTT BLAKEY But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared. And they found the stone […]
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The Source of Resurrection Life!
CHRIS BADENHORST The Christian faith stands or falls on the resurrection of Christ from the dead.1 If there is no resurrection, there is nothing salvageable in Christianity. Furthermore, the […]
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From Torah-Observant to Discovering the New Covenant
STORIES of Faith JEFF AND SONDRA BRICKELL Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit. Then I will teach transgressors your ways, and […]
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The New Covenant In My Blood
R. K. MCGREGOR WRIGHT Preamble All four Gospels record the last few days of Christ’s life in unusual detail because his death and resurrection were the primary reasons he came […]
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