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January 20–26, 2024

January 18, 2024 Colleen Tinker Colleen Tinker, Feature, Sabbath School Commentary

Lesson 4: “The Lord Hears and Delivers” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: This week’s lesson uses a plethora of psalm fragments to teach that God is near and will […]

January 13–19, 2024

January 11, 2024 Colleen Tinker Colleen Tinker, Feature, Sabbath School Commentary

Lesson 3: “The Lord Reigns” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: The clearest disclosure of the author’s intentions is found this week in the Teacher’s Comments. Even though the title […]

Can We Really “Lovingly” Obey the Law

January 4, 2024 Colleen Tinker Colleen Tinker, Doctrine, Feature, General, The Law of God

COLLEEN TINKER We recently received an email revealing an ongoing confusion which, I believe, is common among many Christians and especially among former Adventists. The questions concerns God’s commands to […]

January 6–12, 2024

January 4, 2024 Colleen Tinker Colleen Tinker, Feature, Sabbath School Commentary

Lesson 2: “Teach Us to Pray” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: Once again the lesson assumes the Adventist worldview is reality, and the Psalms are used as useful aids […]

December 30, 2023–January 5, 2024

December 26, 2023 Colleen Tinker Colleen Tinker, Feature, Sabbath School Commentary

Lesson 1: “How to Read the Psalms” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: This week we begin a new lesson quarterly entitled Psalms, and this first week focusses on “How […]

Christmas Tree Teaches Redemption

December 21, 2023 Colleen Tinker Colleen Tinker, Devotional, Feature

COLLEEN TINKER “Christmas trees are pagan. We have no business celebrating Jesus’s birth with symbols of idolatry!” Many people grew up in Adventist homes where this attitude dominated Christmas. A […]

December 23–29, 2023

December 21, 2023 Colleen Tinker Colleen Tinker, Feature, Sabbath School Commentary

Lesson. 13: “The End of God’s Mission” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: • This lesson reveals Adventism’s tritheistic godhead and their assumed “mission”.• This lesson assumes the great controversy […]

We Got Mail

December 14, 2023 Colleen Tinker Colleen Tinker, Feature, Letters to the Editor

Relieved Not To Feel Crazy I left the Adventist church when I became a freshman in college and have never wanted to go back, even though I couldn’t identify exactly […]

O Little Town of Bethlehem

December 14, 2023 Colleen Tinker Colleen Tinker, Devotional, Feature

COLLEEN TINKER In 2008 Richard and I experienced one of the most significant gifts God has ever given us (apart from saving us and giving us family): a two-week trip […]

December 16–22, 2023

December 14, 2023 Colleen Tinker Colleen Tinker, Feature, Sabbath School Commentary

Lesson 12: “Esther and Mordecai” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: This lesson once again appropriates the word of God as an instruction manual for Adventist proselytizing. This week the […]

December 9–15, 2023

December 7, 2023 Colleen Tinker Colleen Tinker, Feature, Sabbath School Commentary

Lesson 11: “Mission to the Unreached: Part 2” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: In Part 2 of “Mission to the Unreached”, the focus of the author is to teach […]

Former Adventists Give to the Church

November 30, 2023 Colleen Tinker Colleen Tinker, Doctrine, Feature

COLLEEN TINKER The day I first understood the new covenant changed me forever. As an Adventist I couldn’t have explained how the new covenant “worked”, although I had heard the phrase. […]

December 2–8, 2023

November 30, 2023 Colleen Tinker Colleen Tinker, Feature, Sabbath School Commentary

Lesson 10: “Mission to the Unreached: Part 1” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: In this lesson the agenda of Adventist evangelism reveals itself even further. The artificial divisions of […]

We Got Mail

November 23, 2023 Colleen Tinker Colleen Tinker, Feature, Letters to the Editor

Health Message—Tactics of Grooming and Abuse As I read Colleen Tinker’s commentary on the Sabbath School lesson in the November 17 issue of the weekly Proclamation! magazine I was struck […]

A New Covenant Needs New Words

November 23, 2023 Margie Littell Colleen Tinker, Doctrine, Feature, Margie Littell, New Covenant, The Sabbath

MARGIE LITTELL WITH COLLEEN TINKER Let’s investigate Jesus’s New Covenant. It is explained so well in the letter to the Hebrews. While we don’t know who wrote Hebrews, we can […]