Is Sunday Sacred?
ASK THE PASTOR WITH DALE RATZLAFF | Question: What do you say to people who advocate Sunday “sacredness” or keeping Sunday as a measure of one’s gratitude to God? This […]
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Category: Adventist Doctrines
1. Sabbath Not Changed
JERRY RECTOR | Physician Answering the question of why I no longer “keep” Sabbath in the manner I was raised is fairly common for me now days. Almost all other […]
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April 27–May 3, 2024
Lesson 5: “Faith Against All Odds” COLLEEN TINKER | Problems With This Lesson: This week’s lesson is based on chapters 7–11 of The Great Controversy. The background for this lesson […]
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What About the Ten Commandments
CHRIS BADENHORST | What is the role of the Law in the Christian life? Are the Ten Commandments still binding on believers in Jesus Christ? Is the Decalogue still the […]
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April 20–26, 2024
Lesson 4: “Standing for the Truth” COLLEEN TINKER | Before we launch into a look at this week’s lessons which are based on Ellen White’s The Great Controversy chapters 4–6, […]
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Adventism’s Unifying Theory: The Great Controversy
MYLES CHRISTIAN | I was recently having a discussion with a theology professor who was interested to hear more about Seventh-day Adventist theology due to his regular engagement with those […]
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What Are New Covenant Ethics? The Ten Commandments?
CHRIS BADENHORST | Introduction In a secular sense ethics can be defined as the science of conduct. It is a systematic attempt to consider the purposeful actions of mankind so […]
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5. Lost Souls Get Bodies For Eternal Punishment
JEREMY GRAHAM | 5. The Bible teaches that the spirits/souls of unsaved people will also return to their bodies and they will be resurrected and be punished eternally. 1 Kings […]
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April 13–19, 2024
Lesson 3: “Light Shines in the Darkness” COLLEEN TINKER | Problems with this lesson: This week’s lesson is based on chapter three of The Great Controversy by Ellen White. The […]
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An Appeal to Mark Finley
COLLEEN TINKER | This second quarter of 2024, the Seventh-day Adventist organization has published a new set of Sabbath School lessons entitled The Great Controversy. We have been doing weekly […]
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4. Saved Souls Get Bodies at the Resurrection
JEREMY GRAHAM | 4. The Bible teaches that the spirits/souls of saved people will return to their bodies and they will be resurrected and be with the Lord Jesus forever. 1 […]
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April 6–12. 2024
Lesson 2: “The Central Issue: Love or Selfishness?” COLLEEN TINKER | Problems with this lesson: This week’s lesson, built on chapters one and two of The Great Controversy by EGW, […]
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March 30–April 5, 2024
Quarter 2, Lesson 1: “The War Behind All Wars” COLLEEN TINKER | Problems with this lesson: This week launches a new Sabbath School quarterly for the second quarter of 2024 […]
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3. Unsaved Souls Are Conscious After Death
JEREMY GRAHAM | 3. The Bible also teaches that the spirits/souls of unsaved people continue in conscious existence after physical death. 1 Samuel 28:3, 7-20: “Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel […]
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March 23–29, 2024
Lesson 13: “Wait On the Lord” COLLEEN TINKER | Problems with this lesson: This week’s lesson ends the quarter with a focus on waiting on the Lord. Significantly, the central […]
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