Leaving Adventist Pride
VIRLINDA FOSTER | Christian Mom While visiting with some other former Adventists at the recent Former Adventist Fellowship Conference weekend in Loma Linda, California, I was reminded of something within […]
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March 1–7, 2025
Lesson 10: “Rules of Engagement” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine Central Problem: This lesson assumes a covenant between God and Satan with rules governing their great controversy. This week’s lesson assumes […]
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We Got Mail
Adventist God NOT Our Almighty God Once again, I find it mind-boggling and even horrifying at how the adventist god is NOT the Almighty God we know! It makes me wonder […]
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Ponderings From the Former Adventist Conference
NICOLE STEVENSON | Co-Host, Former Adventist Podcast Today is the day after the 2025 Former Adventist Fellowship Conference. Many who travelled to attend have now boarded planes bound for home. Others have […]
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February 22–28, 2025
Lesson 9: “The Cosmic Conflict” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine Problems with this lesson: This lesson attempts, in one week’s brief studies, to confirm EGW’s great controversy worldview. The entire paradigm […]
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February 15–21, 2025
Lesson 8: “Free Will, Love, and Divine Providence” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine Problems with this lesson: This lesson builds a case for God’s limited providence for the purpose of protecting […]
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We Got Mail
Thank you for the conference Thank you and the whole team for taking care of every detail so that last weekend’s conference would be a success. It seems that everything […]
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“These Stones Will Cry Out!”
KASPARS OZOLINS | Assistant Professor of Old Testament Interpretation, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary The gospel of Luke conveys the electric atmosphere of Christ’s triumphal entry by reporting a brief exchange between […]
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Paul and the Afterlife in 2 Corinthians
Confronting a Passage I Used To Run From: 2 Corinthians 5:1–9 DALE RATZLAFF | Pastor and Founder, Life Assurance Ministries (1936–2024) When I was Seventh-day Adventist pastor and Bible teacher and had […]
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February 8–14, 2025
Lesson 7: “The Problem of Evil” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine Problems with this lesson: This week’s lesson attempts to explain the existence and apparent flourishing of evil from an Adventist, […]
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We Got Mail
Responses To “Adventism Blames Satan for Sin” Only Listened for 11 Minutes I listened for 11 minutes and then stopped. This lady does not believe in free choice but rather […]
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Daniel 9: Seventy Weeks of Years
PHIL HARRIS | Seeker of Truth Daniel’s Preface In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, from the seed of the Medes, who was made king over the kingdom of […]
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Law Not Abolished?
ASK THE PASTOR WITH DALE RATZLAFF | Pastor and Founder, Life Assurance Ministries (1936–2024) Question: How do you explain Matthew 5:17–19? “Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the […]
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February 1–7, 2025
Lesson 6: “God’s Love of Justice” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine Problems with this lesson: This lesson attempts to explain God’s justice from the perspective of the great controversy worldview. Thus […]
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The Star God
MARTIN CAREY | Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Life Assurance Ministries Board Member “This soil is too dry for my seeds,” Eliab stood looking over the little field he and his […]
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