Repeating What We Know
NICOLE STEVENSON | Co-Host, Former Adventist Podcast Well, we made it! It’s the last Friday of 2024, and here we sit together on the doorstep of 2025. It’s easy to feel like […]
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Category: Authors
What Is Integrity?
CAROLYN MACOMBER | The Life Examined What does it mean to live with integrity? The word “integrity” is defined as the state of being whole and undivided. The opposite of […]
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The Promise That Led Us Out
BEN AND DELINA MCPHAULL | Faith Story When Ben and Delina McPhaull married, their vows included (Ben): I promise to guide, protect and provide for you, so together we can […]
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December 28, 2024–January 3, 2025
Lesson 1: “God Loves Freely” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine The author of this quarter’s lessons, John C. Peckham, is, to quote Kaspars Ozolins’ recent article in Proclamation!, “Adventism and Recent […]
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We Got Mail
The Trinity Is Not “Three gods”, and Oneness Is Heresy It’s a great work you’re doing, helping fellow brothers and sisters to leave the anti-Christ Seventh—day Adventist cult. I came […]
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We Got Mail
How to Help Adventists See Truth I am a former Adventist and … I have a circle of Adventist friends whom the Holy Spirit is pouring out on, and yet […]
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Jesus—God Born a Baby
COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine I’ve always loved Christmas—but for many years I felt let down by the holiday. It never quite seemed to yield the magic and peace […]
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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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December 21–27, 2024
Lesson 13: “Epilogue: Knowing Jesus and His Word” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine Problems with this lesson: This last lesson of the quarter on the gospel is most clearly dedicated to […]
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Adventism and Recent Developments in Evangelical Scholarship
KASPARS OZOLINS | Assistant Professor of Old Testament Interpretation, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Last month I was at the annual biblical scholarly conferences that take place every year in November in […]
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Wise Men Still Seek Him
DALE RATZLAFF | Pastor and Founder, Life Assurance Ministries (1936–2024) What is significant about the story of the magi? On the back window of a pickup I recently saw a decal which […]
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If what you believe is not biblical, would you want to know?
COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine The voice on the phone was intense and agitated; the young woman speaking to me was bright and articulate—but confused. She considered herself a former Adventist […]
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December 14–20, 2024
Lesson 12: “The Hour of Glory: The Cross and Resurrection” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine Problems with this lesson: This week’s lesson reveals the heart of Adventism’s cultic twisting of the […]
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We Got Mail
“Traditional Christian View Cannot Be Defended” This logic is not flawed but the foundational premise is. It’s wrapped up in what they’re calling the “nature of man” described at the […]
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The Gospel is Good News!
DALE RATZLAFF | Pastor and Founder, Life Assurance Ministries (1936–2024) The New Testament makes it clear that obedience to the law is neither a good definition of the righteousness of God nor […]
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