The Sabbath: From Ritual to Reality
DALE RATZLAFF | Pastor and Founder, Life Assurance Ministries (1936–2024) A farmer in the med-west had a small apple orchard that his cows occasionally would get into, so he decided to build […]
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Category: Adventist Doctrines
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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November 30–December 6, 2024
Lesson 10: “The Way, the Truth, and the Life” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine Problems with this lesson: The subtle heresy of this week’s lesson lies just out of sight. The […]
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Adventism’s Catch–22: We Can’t Be Good Enough
MYLES CHRISTIAN | Host, Answering Adventism Since the late 20th century, possibly sooner, a shift in the Adventist Church’s focus has taken place regarding a central doctrine in the overall Great Controversy […]
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November 23–29, 2024
Lesson 9: “The Source of Life” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine Problems with this lesson: The confusion of Adventism attempting to teach Jesus as the Source of life in the context […]
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November 16–22, 2024
Lesson 8: “Fulfilling Old Testament Prophecies” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine Problems with this lesson: True to form for this quarter’s Sabbath School lessons, this week’s studies are not overtly “wrong”. […]
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November 2–8, 2024
Lesson 6: “More Testimonies About Jesus” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine Problems with this lesson: This week’s lesson compiles passages from John 1, John 3, and John 5, 6, and 7 […]
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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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Gaslighting—By Adventists
KASPARS OZOLINS | Assistant Professor of Old Testament Interpretation, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary I learned this week that the popular term gaslighting is actually derived from a 1944 film called Gaslight, […]
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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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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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What the Current Division Within Adventism Teaches Us
MYLES CHRISTIAN | Host, Answering Adventism New drama has sparked within the Adventist universe prompted by the cancellation of an Adventist pastor by the name of Conrad Vine—particularly with some statements he […]
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September 28–October 4, 2024
Lesson 1: “Signs That Point the Way” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Life Assurance Ministries Problems with this lesson: This quarter the Sabbath School lessons are a series focussing on the gospel of […]
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September 21–27, 2024
Lesson 13: “The Risen Lord” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Life Assurance Ministries Problems with this lesson: This lesson covers the end of Mark 15:42–16:6 where Mark writes about Jesus’ resurrection. Yet although […]
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