HOW EPHESIANS CONTRADICTS ADVENTISM #2
Because of a reader’s request, I’m returning to the study of Ephesians and comparing how the passages in this book relate to typical Adventist teaching. In this blog I’ll resume […]
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CONTENDING WITH THE SABBATH SCHOOL JESUS
By Colleen Tinker One of the most consistent, carefully-managed ways Seventh-day Adventism indoctrinates its members is through its weekly Sabbath School Bible Study Guides, commonly called “Quarterlies”. Four issues […]
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ADVENTIST MISSIONARY BOOK TO FOCUS ON FAMILIES IN 2019
By Colleen Tinker Last week the Seventh-day Adventist Executive Committee met for its Annual Council at General Conference headquarters. During the session, president Ted N. C. Wilson dedicated the […]
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GOD IS NOT UNDER THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
By Margie Littell An Adventist asked me a good question recently: “Do you think God has to keep the Ten Commandments?” (We had been discussing, not surprisingly, the fourth […]
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DOUG BATCHELOR DEBATES STEVE GREGG ABOUT SABBATH
By Colleen Tinker Last Friday, March 30, Doug Batchelor, speaker and director of Amazing Facts, debated Steve Gregg, host of the daily radio program The Narrow Path. The title of […]
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THREE REASONS ADVENTISTS DON’T CELEBRATE EASTER
By Colleen Tinker This week a Kenyan news source ran a story entitled, “Why Adventists Don’t Celebrate Easter”. The three reasons listed by Washington Odhiambo in Hivisasa fit the […]
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WHY DID JESUS DIE?
By Thomas Francis Would the pain never end? Would the blood never stop flowing? It felt as if her heart was being torn, ripped from the chest, pierced by […]
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WHY WE CAN’T PROTECT ELLEN WHITE
By Colleen Tinker This week we received an email from a reader who had read Christine Rogers’ story last week. Christine, a guest blogger, had written about having been […]
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WHAT IS SIN IF THE LAW IS NOT ETERNAL?
By Colleen Tinker A few weeks ago someone in a former Adventist Facebook group asked how people were aware of sin before Sinai if the law is not eternal. […]
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DOUG BATCHELOR SAYS BILLY GRAHAM IS NOT IN HEAVEN
By Colleen Tinker Billy Graham died on Wednesday, February 21, at the age of 99. He had been an evangelist over a span of seven decades, and since 1955, […]
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NO MATTER THE COST
By Richard Tinker No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and […]
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Former Adventist Conference Live Today
The annual Former Adventist Fellowship Conference, held in Loma Linda, California, begins on Friday, February 16, at 9:00 AM (PST). The conference is streamed live on the internet at two […]
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FORMER ADVENTIST FELLOWSHIP, SOCIAL MEDIA, AND GOD’S PROVISION
By Kelsie Petersen I spend more than my fair share of time on social media. Since I left Adventism in 2004, social media has exploded from now-virtually-extinct MySpace to […]
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ADVENTISM HONES NEW METHODS OF EVANGELISM
By Colleen Tinker Adventists in Nigeria have taken a cue from an existing public service program and created a new means of both serving and making Adventists. The newly-formed […]
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LIVING IN “ASSUMPTION LAND”
By Margie Littell Do we live in the strange landscape of Assumption? If so, we assume that DOING comes before BEING. Therefore, we DO in order to BE. Thus, our […]
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