We Give Thanks In All Seasons
NICOLE STEVENSON We all know that Thanksgiving is a season that calls us to reflect on the things we’re grateful for. For one month even secular culture is abuzz with […]
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Category: Devotional
Our Glorious Christ Revealed
NICOLE STEVENSON As Colleen Tinker and I have been working our way through Daniel and Revelation for the Former Adventist Podcast, I’ve noticed my heart changing in unexpected ways. I […]
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I’m Not Ready!
MARTIN CAREY “Keep moving dirt bags, this is your lucky day!” The Roman guard laughed as he yanked the chains that linked the prisoners together. Convict Jacob had learned that […]
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Post-Cult Doubt in a Post-Christian Culture
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 […]
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Will Your Anchor Hold?
DALE RATZLAFF How should we react to the frightening news stories we are hearing? Should we be preparing to run to the hills? Throughout history there have been wars, and […]
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Now I Love Communion
KELSIE PETERSEN Growing up Adventist, 13th Sabbath was an exciting—yet dreadful—event. Usually there was a special program and a short sermonette instead of the regular sermon, and this was followed […]
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My Anger and Four Hard Lessons
MICHAEL PURSLEY From the get-go, let me tell you that I did not have this list in my hip pocket, far from it! This list jelled gradually as I slowly […]
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I Do Well to be Angry
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 […]
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Can You Be an Accidental Christian?
KELSIE PETERSEN This week I came across a video by a popular YouTuber named JP Sears who has dabbled in “spirituality” for many years, but he has always come up […]
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“I’m sorry that you were hurt in Adventism”
NICOLE STEVENSON Have you ever been told that you left Seventh-day Adventism because you were hurt? Or that you left because you didn’t understand it? I suspect that if we […]
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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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Sabbath Carries the Death Penalty
BEVERLY QUINN BESSADA Colleen Tinker’s recent article, “Are We Against Catholics?” was, as always, informative and enlightening, and it made me think. Once in a while, my thoughts get carried […]
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Boast in the Lord!
KELSIE PETERSEN For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it […]
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Necessary Divorce
Beyond Leaving the Adventist Pew TERRY MIRRA Divorce is an ugly word. It evokes images of fighting, legal battles, and dissension of every sort. Divorce is defined as: “total separation; […]
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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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