“Friday Night Feeling” Transformed
JEANIE JURA | Eternally Alive in Christ A few years ago I moved to my current town to be near my parents. They were getting on in years and even […]
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Category: Devotional
Ponderings From the Former Adventist Conference
NICOLE STEVENSON | Co-Host, Former Adventist Podcast Today is the day after the 2025 Former Adventist Fellowship Conference. Many who travelled to attend have now boarded planes bound for home. Others have […]
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Fighting For Joy in Jesus
A small-group leader’s letter of encouragement to his group ROY TINKER | Adventism to Christianity as a Teenager I really enjoyed our time together tonight. Some of us stayed afterwards […]
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ζωή: Life in John’s Gospel
DARREL CARSON | Off the grid and loving Jesus If there is one thing I remember about my life as a newborn Christian, it is the fact that everything was […]
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Whom Do I Believe?
ASK THE PASTOR WITH DALE RATZLAFF | Pastor and Founder, Life Assurance Ministries (1936–2024) Q. Adventists tell me that Life Assurance Ministries is teaching error and I should not even read Proclamation! […]
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A “Never-Been” Discovers the Truth About Adventism
DEBORAH PRATT | Life Assurance Ministries’ Online Moderator It’s been 11, going on 12 years now, since I first found this group called the Former Adventist Fellowship (FAF). From finding […]
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Repeating What We Know
NICOLE STEVENSON | Co-Host, Former Adventist Podcast Well, we made it! It’s the last Friday of 2024, and here we sit together on the doorstep of 2025. It’s easy to feel like […]
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What Is Integrity?
CAROLYN MACOMBER | The Life Examined What does it mean to live with integrity? The word “integrity” is defined as the state of being whole and undivided. The opposite of […]
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Wise Men Still Seek Him
DALE RATZLAFF | Pastor and Founder, Life Assurance Ministries (1936–2024) What is significant about the story of the magi? On the back window of a pickup I recently saw a decal which […]
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Come Experience the Joy of Jesus
THOMAS FRANCIS | Broadcasting, Insurance, and Law Enforcement Jesus said, “These things I have spoken to you that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be […]
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The Kind of Priest We Need
MARTIN CAREY | Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Life Assurance Ministries Board Member Since then we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a […]
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Encountering the Risen Christ on the Road to Emmaus
DALE RATZLAFF | Pastor and Founder, Life Assurance Ministries (1936–2024) Originally published in the March/April 2002 print edition of Proclamation! The literal bodily resurrection of Christ is the non-negotiable foundation upon which true […]
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Take the Cure For Self-Righteousness
RICHARD FOSTER | Contributor Also He spoke this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: “Two men went up to the temple to […]
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No Compromise!
NICOLE STEVENSON | Co-Host, Former Adventist Podcast After being born again my sense of identity and reality was permanently changed. I knew I had a new Father—a new God! I knew I […]
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You Must Count the Cost
GREG TAYLOR | Former Adventist Pastor There is a tendency in faith communities to share the joys of the Christian life in such a way that it appears to be […]
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