October 5–11, 2024
Lesson 2: “Signs of Divinity” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Life Assurance Ministries Problems with this lesson: This week’s Sabbath School lesson breezes over three of John’s most revealing accounts of Jesus’ true […]
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Category: Colleen Tinker
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I Need Help Exiting This Mess I’m in my 40s, a fourth-generation Adventist pastor’s kid. I just need some help trying to get out of this mess, and I need […]
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September 28–October 4, 2024
Lesson 1: “Signs That Point the Way” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Life Assurance Ministries Problems with this lesson: This quarter the Sabbath School lessons are a series focussing on the gospel of […]
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Response to “Messing With the Trinity” I never knew how badly Seventh-day Adventists deny Christ as God. Even in their Heavenly Trio, they seem to accept Jesus as PART of […]
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September 21–27, 2024
Lesson 13: “The Risen Lord” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Life Assurance Ministries Problems with this lesson: This lesson covers the end of Mark 15:42–16:6 where Mark writes about Jesus’ resurrection. Yet although […]
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We Got Mail
I Have Come to Know Jesus I hope this message finds you well. I wanted to reach out to express my heartfelt gratitude for the impact your podcast (Former Adventist […]
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Does Protestantism Have All the Truth?
COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Life Assurance Ministries The question is universal among those who have left Adventism (or any other group with a false gospel and a twisted soteriology): how do we […]
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September 14–20, 2024
Lesson 12: “Tried and Crucified” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Life Assurance Ministries Problems with this lesson: In this week’s lesson covering Mark 15 and the crucifixion of the Lord Jesus, the Sabbath […]
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Reflections from a former Worldwide Church of God member So what has been challenging? The fact that there is no “redo button”. I spent 50 years in a world that […]
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September 7–13, 2024
Lesson 11: “Taken and Tried” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Life Assurance Ministries Problems with this lesson: This lesson deals with Mark 14 which opens with Jesus’ being anointed with perfume at Simon […]
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Grief For the Lost Years I wanted to thank you for emailing Proclamation! magazine to me every week. (Yeah, I know there are a lot of other people involved. Thankful […]
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Paul Teaches Us To Love
COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Life Assurance Ministries When I was an Adventist, the apostle Paul seemed almost out of reach. His epistles were obviously deep and theologically meaty, but I often felt […]
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Safe With Our Shepherd
COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Life Assurance Ministries Southern California has secrets. Unless a person knows her well, So Cal appears worldly and sophisticated—and indeed, she is in many ways. She has, however, […]
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Clarity and Understanding To Leave I want to thank you for the Former Adventist Podcast.…In March of 2020 I received a transformed life through the true gospel preached…I went from […]
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August 24–30, 2024
Lesson 9: “Jerusalem Controversies” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Life Assurance Ministries Problems with this lesson: More and more these lessons reveal Adventism’s downplaying of the eternal, divine authority of the Lord Jesus […]
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