Authors – Page 24 – Proclamation! Online Magazine

May 27–June 2

May 25, 2023 Colleen Tinker Colleen Tinker, Feature, Sabbath School Commentary

Lesson 10: Satan’s Final Deception COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: The central points of the lesson, “Immortality of the Soul” and “Sun worship”, are built ENTIRELY upon straw-man […]

Never Compromise the Gospel!

May 18, 2023 Richard Foster Doctrine, Feature, Gospel, Richard Foster

RICHARD FOSTER The gospel! The word literally means “good news”. Specifically, the gospel is the good news of salvation for sinners. Paul in Romans tells us that the gospel is […]

Spiritual Israel or Bride of Christ?

May 18, 2023 Margie Littell Colleen Tinker, Doctrine, Feature, Margie Littell

MARGIE LITTELL With COLLEEN TINKER I had an unexpected thought fill my consciousness today! I was confronted by a Seventh-day Adventist who told me I had to join the nation […]

May 20–26

May 18, 2023 Colleen Tinker Colleen Tinker, Feature, Sabbath School Commentary

Lesson 9: “A City Called Confusion” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: This lesson is built upon an unbiblical assumption, that the woman of Revelation 12 is the church […]

Ellen White Is Used to Suppress Jesus

May 11, 2023 Nicole Stevenson Ellen G. White, Feature, Nicole Stevenson

NICOLE STEVENSON I probably would have forgotten about the practice altogether if it hadn’t suddenly come to mind while I was singing at church recently. There I was, worshiping in […]

May 13–19

May 11, 2023 Colleen Tinker Colleen Tinker, Feature, Sabbath School Commentary

Lesson 8: “The Sabbath And the End” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: Built on the assumption of the pre-history of Satan’s jealousy and the launch of the great […]

Is Our Love Too Tough?

May 4, 2023 Colleen Tinker Colleen Tinker, Doctrine, Feature

COLLEEN TINKER Our advanced placement senior English class was small; we might even have called ourselves “special”. We met, seminar-style, around a large table with Mrs. Winter—our seasoned, eccentric teacher—at […]

Lord, Increase Our Faith

May 4, 2023 Dale Ratzlaff 2007-1 Proclamation!, Dale Ratzlaff, Feature, Proclamation! Magazine Archive

DALE RATZLAFF Faith is a little word that is given major emphasis in the New Testament. Most of us know the “faith verses” from memory such as, “For by grace […]

May 6–12

May 4, 2023 Colleen Tinker Colleen Tinker, Feature, Sabbath School Commentary

Lesson 7: “Worshiping the Creator” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson The three angels’ messages are removed from their context to teach Adventism’s cultic doctrine. The assumption that worshiping […]

“He Has Done All Things Well”: A Personal Update to My Testimony

April 27, 2023 Kaspars Ozolins Faith Story, Feature, Kaspars Ozolins

KASPARS OZOLINS My first post for Proclamation! blog post (back in January, 2019) was my own testimony of coming to faith in Jesus and eventually leaving Seventh-day Adventism and joining […]

Who is the Source?

April 27, 2023 Colleen Tinker Colleen Tinker, Doctrine, Feature

COLLEEN TINKER Editor’s note: The following article was written in 2009. In 2015 the General Conference in session changed the wording of Fundamental Belief #18 concerning Ellen White as the […]

April 29–May 5

April 27, 2023 Colleen Tinker Colleen Tinker, Feature, Sabbath School Commentary

Lesson 6: “The Hour of His Judgment” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: The lesson ignores the fact that Adventist scholars have long known that the framework for explaining […]

Are There More Gods than One?

April 20, 2023 Jordan Quinley Doctrine, Feature, Jordan Quinley, The Trinity

Redeemer Catechism Series, Question 8 JORDAN QUINLEY In this series, we are working our way through the Redeemer Catechism. Having learned what God is and how we can know there […]

April 22–28, 2023

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

Lesson 5: “The Good News of Judgment” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: The lesson assumes that “God’s Judgment” is the investigative judgment. The author relies on EGWs characterization […]

I Do Well to be Angry

April 13, 2023 Martin Carey Devotional, Doctrine, Feature, Martin Carey

MARTIN CAREY Have you ever been angry with God? Most of us have, for many different reasons. According to researcher Julie Exline, 62% of all adults have reported feeling angry […]