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What Does Jesus Command?

March 23, 2023 Richard Foster Doctrine, Feature, Richard Foster, The Sabbath

RICHARD FOSTER “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments” (John 14:15). As Adventists we were taught that any time we saw the word “commandments” in Scripture it always […]

Sabbath Carries the Death Penalty

February 9, 2023 Guest Devotional, Doctrine, Feature, The Sabbath

BEVERLY QUINN BESSADA Colleen Tinker’s recent article, “Are We Against Catholics?” was, as always, informative and enlightening, and it made me think. Once in a while, my thoughts get carried […]

Sabbath vs. Sunday: A Non-Issue in the Christian Church

January 26, 2023 Richard Foster Doctrine, Feature, Richard Foster, The Sabbath

RICHARD FOSTER Coming from an Adventist background it may sound bizarre and even shocking to consider, but the fact is that Sabbath vs. Sunday is a non-issue to the overwhelming […]

Were Christians Keeping the Sabbath in Second Century A.D.?

June 23, 2022 Guest Doctrine, Feature, The Sabbath

WES RINGER The Seventh-day Baptists, who arose around 1650 and the Seventh-day Adventists who began keeping the Sabbath in 1846, both hold firm theological convictions that God is asking them […]

Getting Unstuck From the Sabbath

June 2, 2022 Colleen Tinker Colleen Tinker, Doctrine, Feature, The Sabbath

COLLEEN TINKER The Sabbath is the great sticking point for almost all of us who question Adventism. We know the arguments for Sabbath better than we know the rules of […]

Dear Adventist, Do You Keep the Sabbath?

June 2, 2022 Lisa Winn 2016-2 Proclamation!, Feature, Lisa Winn, Proclamation! Magazine Archive, The Sabbath

TRULY ADVENTIST WITH LISA WINN The Sabbath is one of the pillars of the Seventh-day Adventist church. Ellen White says, “It means eternal salvation to keep the Sabbath holy unto the Lord.”1 […]

Adventist’s Sabbath Trumps Resurrection

April 14, 2022 Colleen Tinker Colleen Tinker, Doctrine, Feature, The Sabbath

COLLEEN TINKER Last week we received a hand-addressed envelope in the mail from someone we didn’t know. Richard opened it, and inside we found a hand-written letter and a pamphlet […]

Adventism’s Trojan Horse

November 4, 2021 Colleen Tinker Colleen Tinker, Doctrine, Feature, The Sabbath

COLLEEN TINKER I had a poignant and perceptive email this week. The writer was a top student in an Adventist seminary (not in North America) when he began to look […]

The Sabbath and the Lord’s Day

October 2, 2021 H. M. Riggle Books, The Sabbath

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Jesus is Lord of the Sabbath

July 1, 2021 Proclamation! 2005-1 Proclamation!, Feature, Jesus, Proclamation! Magazine Archive, The Sabbath

J. MARK MARTIN In his gospel, Mark describes the ministry of Jesus primarily to a Roman audience. Because his audience is Gentile, Mark is careful to explain the Jewish traditions […]

The Covenants—The Continental Divide of Biblical Interpretation

June 3, 2021 Dale Ratzlaff 2016-3 Proclamation!, Dale Ratzlaff, Feature, Proclamation! Magazine Archive, The Sabbath

DALE RATZLAFF Studying the covenants is like pouring one’s theological water jug out on the Continental Divide. In fact, this mountain of the covenants divides between the ocean of old […]

The Great Controversy Requires Sabbath

May 20, 2021 Dale Ratzlaff 2015-4 Proclamation!, Dale Ratzlaff, Doctrine, Feature, Great Controversy, Proclamation! Magazine Archive, The Sabbath

DALE RATZLAFF The Adventist great controversy paradigm shaped by Ellen White’s (EGW) vision of the same name is built—not on Jesus the cornerstone—but on its own cornerstone of the law. […]

Does the Manna Support Sabbath Keeping?

September 10, 2020 Colleen Tinker Doctrine, Feature, The Sabbath

Sabbath is always the sticking point when people leave Adventism. In fact, Adventist teaching has so bound the day into the Adventist conscience that Adventists generally worry more about disrespecting […]

27. Sunday-Keeping is Not the Mark of the Beast

July 8, 2020 H. M. Riggle Feature, Sabbath and the Lord's Day, The Sabbath

“Sunday-keeping must be the mark of the beast.”—The Marvel of Nations, by U. Smith (page 183). “The seal of God is his holy Sabbath.”—Thoughts on Revelation (page 452). […]

26. The Pope and the Sabbath

July 2, 2020 H. M. Riggle Feature, Sabbath and the Lord's Day, The Sabbath

By constantly crying in the ears of the people: “Sunday is a heathen day; and all who observe it keep ‘the venerable day of the sun’” “The bishop of […]