Are You Being Defrauded?
MARTIN CAREY “See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according […]
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February 11–17
Lesson 7: “Unto the Least of These” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: This lesson teaches giving to the poor as a moral requirement for demonstrating one’s commitment to […]
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February 4–10
Lesson 6: “Laying Up Treasure In Heaven” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: This is a thinly-veiled appeal to Adventists to “invest” in Adventism and its evangelism in order […]
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Sabbath vs. Sunday: A Non-Issue in the Christian Church
RICHARD FOSTER Coming from an Adventist background it may sound bizarre and even shocking to consider, but the fact is that Sabbath vs. Sunday is a non-issue to the overwhelming […]
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Digging Up the Truth About the Hebrew Roots Movement
DALE RATZLAFF As Peter prophesied in 2 Peter 2:1, there are many “destructive heresies” invading the Christian church. Some are secretly deceptive, and some are boldly confrontive. In this article […]
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January 28–February 3
Lesson 5: “Dealing With Debt” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: This lesson cannot fully deal with the debt problem while promoting a false gospel that does not change […]
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Facing Our Former Commanders
NICOLE STEVENSON I’ll never forget the moment. It was early 2010 and I’d only recently left Adventism and discovered the true gospel. It was a quiet afternoon, and I had […]
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January 21–27
Lesson 4: “Offerings for Jesus” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: The author separates offerings from tithes and makes offerings the sign of our gratitude to God. The lesson […]
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Are We Against Catholics?
COLLEEN TINKER Recently I received an email from a woman who was, it turned out, a Catholic apologist. She was a convert to her religion, and interestingly, she is also […]
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January 14–20
Lesson 3: “The Tithing Contract” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: This lesson ignores the hermeneutical principle of prescriptive and descriptive passages. This week’s argument is based on the […]
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Martin Luther vs. Erasmus (and Adventism)
KASPARS OZOLINS Toward the end of his life, the famous German Protestant Reformer Martin Luther remarked that he would not care much if most of his theological writings were forgotten […]
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January 7–13
Lesson 2: “God’s Covenants With Us” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: The foundation of the lesson is wrong: God’s covenants are misdefined and misapplied. The author arbitrarily […]
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I Chose the Cross
CHRIS BADENHORST I plunged fully into Adventism, getting involved with every possible aspect of it. But because it could not provide me with a sound Gospel foundation on which to […]
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What is God?
Redeemer Catechism Series, Question 6 JORDAN QUINLEY As noted in my last article, questions 5, 6, and 8 of the Redeemer Catechism discuss God’s nature. That is, they attempt to […]
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December 31–January 6
Lesson 1: “Part of God’s Family” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: The identification of God’s family is based on EGWs view of “conversion”, not on a biblical understanding […]
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