Authors – Page 21 – Proclamation! Online Magazine

July 22–28

July 20, 2023 Colleen Tinker Colleen Tinker, Feature, Sabbath School Commentary

Lesson 5: “Horizontal Atonement: The Cross and the Church” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: Although the author says the cross is the means of Christ’s uniting Jews and […]

Post-Cult Doubt in a Post-Christian Culture

July 13, 2023 Nicole Stevenson Devotional, Feature, Nicole Stevenson

NICOLE STEVENSON Now what? I remember thinking. I’ve spent all my life believing lies. Everything I’ve built and planned for centered on what I believed in Adventism! How could I […]

July 15–21

July 13, 2023 Colleen Tinker Colleen Tinker, Feature, Sabbath School Commentary

Lesson 4: “How God Rescues Us” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: This week’s lesson is almost right—and yet its confusion fails to explain humanity’s natural state and the reality […]

My Hairdresser Transformed!

July 6, 2023 Colleen Tinker Colleen Tinker, Faith Story, Feature

COLLEEN TINKER This week I sat in a cubicle shrouded in a black cape while the one person whom I’ve trusted to cut my hair for over 15 years worked […]

July 8–14

July 6, 2023 Colleen Tinker Colleen Tinker, Feature, Sabbath School Commentary

Lesson 3: “The Power of the Exalted Jesus” COLLEEN TINKER Problems With This Lesson: This entire lesson is premised on not understanding the nature of spiritual life in believers. […]

“The Bible Is a Dirty Book”: Unbelief and Hatred for the God of the Bible

June 29, 2023 Kaspars Ozolins Bible—The Word, Doctrine, Feature, Kaspars Ozolins

KASPARS OZOLINS This month, Loren Seibold, editor of Adventist Today, wrote a provocatively titled piece: “The Bible Is a Dirty Book: …which also contains the words of eternal life.” This […]

July 1–7

June 29, 2023 Colleen Tinker Colleen Tinker, Feature, Sabbath School Commentary

Lesson 2: “God’s Grand, Christ-Centered Plan” COLLEEN TINKER Problems With This Lesson: The lesson states early on that “we lose salvation only by our own sinful choices.” There is […]

Can I Trust God When Someone Sins Against Me?

June 22, 2023 Colleen Tinker Adventist Relationships, Colleen Tinker, Doctrine, Feature

COLLEEN TINKER Once again the correspondence we received during the past couple of weeks has yielded a subject that is so important we felt it deserved to be shared with […]

What Are God’s Decrees and How Does He Carry Them Out?

June 22, 2023 Jordan Quinley Doctrine, Feature, Jordan Quinley

Redeemer Catechism Series, Questions 9 and 10 JORDAN QUINLEY As we continue our study through the Redeemer Catechism, we address the next two questions that arise logically after examining how […]

June 24–30

June 22, 2023 Colleen Tinker Colleen Tinker, Feature, Sabbath School Commentary

Lesson 1: “Paul and the Ephesians” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: The lesson states that the epistle’s purpose is “to awaken the believers in Ephesus to their full […]

Revelation 22: New Heaven and New Earth, Part 2

June 15, 2023 Phillip Harris Daniel and Revelation, Doctrine, Feature, Phil Harris

PHIL HARRIS Preview Chapters 21 and 22 of Revelation share the common theme of the eternal New Jerusalem. It is appropriate to step back and review these verses before looking […]

June 17–23

June 15, 2023 Colleen Tinker Colleen Tinker, Feature, Sabbath School Commentary

Lesson 13: “Ablaze With God’s Glory” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: This speculation about the ending of the “great controversy” is an imaginary scenario based upon an unbiblical […]

I Chose My Mountain

June 8, 2023 Richard Tinker Faith Story, Feature, Richard Tinker, The Sabbath

RICHARD TINKER I was born on a mountain—Howell Mountain adjacent to the Napa Valley in Northern California. This mountain, however, is very similar to another mountain—Mt. Sinai. In order to […]

June 10–16

June 8, 2023 Colleen Tinker Colleen Tinker, Feature, Sabbath School Commentary

Lesson 12: “The Seal of God and the Mark of the Beast” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: The conclusion of this lesson, that Sabbath is the Seal of […]

Adventism and the Mountain of Fear

June 1, 2023 Myles Christian Doctrine, Feature, Myles Christian

MYLES CHRISTIAN Each month I talk with hundreds of Adventists, and one of the constants that I hear from many of them is how much fear and anxiety they have. […]