November 9–15, 2024
Lesson 7: “Blessed Are Those Who Believe” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine Problems with this lesson: This lesson represents itself as explaining the blessings of “belief”, but the essence of “belief” […]
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Category: Colleen Tinker
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Was there “new birth” in the Old Testament? If since Adam we’re all born spiritually dead, how can the new birth not occur in the OT? What am I misunderstanding? […]
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We Got Mail
From Adventist To Catholic Confusion I was raised Adventist and left because of the never-ending terror of The Last Judgement. As a teen I went to no less than four […]
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November 2–8, 2024
Lesson 6: “More Testimonies About Jesus” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine Problems with this lesson: This week’s lesson compiles passages from John 1, John 3, and John 5, 6, and 7 […]
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Childhood Friend About To Marry an Adventist My daughter has a good friend who grew up with her in church and even shared an apartment with her after college. They […]
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The Smoke and Glory of True Worship
COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine As Nikki Stevenson and I are walking through the book of Romans in the Former Adventist Podcast, we are bumping against many deeply rooted ideas that […]
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October 26–November 1, 2024
Lesson 5: “The Testimony of the Samaritans” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine Problems with this lesson: The story of the Samaritan woman at the well in John 4 contains one of […]
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Word of Man or Word of God
COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! We had been attending Trinity Church for close to two years. Nourished by the Bible teaching we received every week in church as well as in the […]
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October 19–25, 2024
Lesson 4: “Witnesses of Christ as the Messiah” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Life Assurance Ministries Problems with this lesson: This quarter’s lessons are especially frustrating because they skate over the significance of […]
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Good News In Spades It is fascinating and thrilling to listen to these two ladies [Former Adventist Podcast] dialog on the doctrines of justification. I would recommend that not only […]
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October 12–18, 2024
Lesson Three: “The Backstory: The Prologue” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Life Assurance Ministries Problems with this lesson: This week’s lesson addresses John 1 in which John echoes Genesis 1:1, presenting the Lord […]
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Is Our Sin Ours—Or Is It Imputed? I am a little confused about “imputed” sin. Our sin was imputed to Jesus, but was our sin literally ours, or was it […]
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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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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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