Ten Commandments: Only for Israel?
COLLEEN TINKERResearch by Beverly Bessada “But what about the Sabbath?” people ask us when we leave Adventism. “The Ten Commandments are the Law of God, not the law of Moses,” […]
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June 11–17
Lesson 12: “Joseph, Prince of Egypt” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: The author trivializes the eternal themes of repentance and forgiveness by focussing on word plays and […]
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Getting Unstuck From the Sabbath
COLLEEN TINKER The Sabbath is the great sticking point for almost all of us who question Adventism. We know the arguments for Sabbath better than we know the rules of […]
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Dear Adventist, Do You Keep the Sabbath?
TRULY ADVENTIST WITH LISA WINN The Sabbath is one of the pillars of the Seventh-day Adventist church. Ellen White says, “It means eternal salvation to keep the Sabbath holy unto the Lord.”1 […]
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Glorifying and Delighting in God
JORDAN QUINLEY Redeemer Catechism Series, Question 2 The opening question of the Redeemer Catechism asks, essentially, what our reason for living is. It answers by saying we are here to […]
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Water For the Weary
DALE RATZLAFF Introduction The book of Philippians is full of the spiritual nutrients which bring joy and peace into our lives. In fact, it has been one of the chief […]
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May 28–June 3
Lesson 10: “Jacob-Israel” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: This lesson ignores God’s restating His covenant with Abraham to Jacob, the son whom God chose to receive the […]
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Revelation 14: Worship Of The Lamb
PHIL HARRIS The 144,000 Firstfruits This study, just like the others in this series, examines the passage using the grammatical-historical hermeneutic that assumes the words of the text mean what […]
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The Sabbath Obscured in the Clear Word
This article is adapted from a soon-to-be-released book by Stephen Pitcher exploring the Adventist paraphrase of the Bible, The Clear Word (TCW). Steve demonstrates how TCW changes the meaning of […]
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How We Worship in Spirit and Truth
Part Two: Sacrificing “Potential Persons” MARTIN CAREY In the first segment of this series on the nature of man, we looked at how physicalism is at the root of Adventist […]
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Do Not Nullify the Grace of God
A Study of Galatians 2:11-22 DALE RATZLAFF I was working on a study guide for the Phoenix Former Adventist Fellowship when the deeper meaning of Galatians 2:21 impressed itself […]
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