The Sabbath – Page 2 – Proclamation! Online Magazine

2. Did Abraham Keep the Sabbath?

May 2, 2024 Guest Doctrine, Feature, Jerry Rector, The Sabbath, The Sabbath Fulfilled

JERRY RECTOR | Physician So we come to Abraham. God communes with him and they develop an amazing relationship. Paul says his faith was credited to him as righteousness, as […]

Is Sunday Sacred?

April 25, 2024 Dale Ratzlaff Dale Ratzlaff, Feature, New Covenant, The Sabbath

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 […]

1. Sabbath Not Changed

April 25, 2024 Guest Doctrine, Feature, Jerry Rector, The Sabbath, The Sabbath Fulfilled

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 […]

What About the Ten Commandments

April 18, 2024 Guest Adventist Doctrines, Chris Badenhorst, Feature, New Covenant, The Law of God, The Sabbath

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 […]

What Commandments Do Christians Follow?

March 7, 2024 Dale Ratzlaff 2007-2 Proclamation!, Dale Ratzlaff, Doctrine, New Covenant, Proclamation! Magazine Archive, The Law of God, The Sabbath

ASK THE PASTOR WITH DALE RATZLAFF | Q: If the Ten Commandments came in with Moses and lasted only until Christ, as you say the new covenant teaches, then what […]

March 2–8, 2024

February 29, 2024 Colleen Tinker Adventist Doctrines, Colleen Tinker, Feature, Sabbath School Commentary, The Sabbath

Lesson 10: “Lessons of the Past” COLLEEN TINKER | Problems with this lesson: This week’s lesson looks briefly at several psalms which recount God’s deliverance of Israel from Egypt and […]

Jesus Broke the Sabbath and Declared Himself God

February 22, 2024 Margie Littell Colleen Tinker, Doctrine, Feature, Margie Littell, The Sabbath

MARGIE LITTELL with COLLEEN TINKER | Honestly, I find it difficult to read some online posts by Seventh-day Adventists with their spirit of superiority and their ridicule of the doctrines […]

Proof That We Must Keep the Law?

February 15, 2024 Dale Ratzlaff 2016-1 Proclamation!, Dale Ratzlaff, Doctrine, Feature, Proclamation! Magazine Archive, The Law of God, The Sabbath

DALE RATZLAFF Isn’t Matthew 5:17-19 proof that we have to continue keeping the law? Matthew 5:17-19 has been a proof text for many groups. It has also been a text […]

Is the Fourth Commandment a Moral Law?

February 1, 2024 Colleen Tinker Adventist Doctrines, Colleen Tinker, Doctrine, New Covenant, The Law of God, The Sabbath

COLLEEN TINKER The question was heartfelt—even a little desperate. The writer, a never-been-Adventist, was struggling to deal with the Sabbath arguments of a well-known Adventist theologian and writer who happened […]

Did the Waldenses Keep the 7th Day Sabbath?

January 19, 2024 Guest The Sabbath

E-mails from Pastor Thomas Soggin of the Waldesian Church in Bergamo to Andras Szalai, director of Apologia Research Center (CFAR Hungary) concerning the Seventh-day Adventist claim that Waldesians were Seventh-day […]

A New Covenant Needs New Words

November 23, 2023 Margie Littell Colleen Tinker, Doctrine, Feature, Margie Littell, New Covenant, The Sabbath

MARGIE LITTELL WITH COLLEEN TINKER Let’s investigate Jesus’s New Covenant. It is explained so well in the letter to the Hebrews. While we don’t know who wrote Hebrews, we can […]

What’s Your Hermeneutic? Why Does it Matter?

November 9, 2023 Colleen Tinker Colleen Tinker, Doctrine, Feature, The Sabbath

COLLEEN TINKER If there is any single Adventist icon that functions as an idol, it is the seventh-day Sabbath. In fact, the Adventist arguments for Sabbath-keeping are so ingrained that […]

New Creation Sabbath and “sábbaton”

November 6, 2023 Colleen Tinker Colleen Tinker, Doctrine, Feature, New Covenant, The Sabbath

COLLEEN TINKER WITH GARY INRIG Recently there has been increasing discussion about the idea that the word sabbaton —Sabbath—occurs in Matthew 28:1, Mark 16:2, and Luke 24:1 in reference to […]

I Chose My Mountain

June 8, 2023 Richard Tinker Faith Story, Feature, Richard Tinker, The Sabbath

RICHARD TINKER I was born on a mountain—Howell Mountain adjacent to the Napa Valley in Northern California. This mountain, however, is very similar to another mountain—Mt. Sinai. In order to […]

The Law is Not For Us!

March 30, 2023 Margie Littell Colleen Tinker, Doctrine, Feature, Margie Littell, The Law of God, The Sabbath

MARGIE LITTELL WITH COLLEEN TINKER If we cannot define, accurately, what the Gospel of Jesus is, we believe an anti-Gospel message. Let’s identify the gospel before we go any farther. […]