Are Adventists “Spiritual Israel”?
[MARGIE LITTELL] Hebrews is an interesting book written to the same people who cried for Jesus to be crucified, and it was written to them after Jesus returned to heaven. […]
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Category: Doctrine
Being Born Again Makes All the Difference
[RICHARD K. FOSTER] I can remember it vividly. Indeed, as an Adventist I went through it for years. You do something you “know” you shouldn’t do or you neglect something […]
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What Is Seventh-day Adventism?
[COLLEEN TINKER] The fall of 2015 has proven to be historic in unexpected ways. One of the most surprising unfolding events has been the campaign of retired Seventh-day Adventist neurosurgeon […]
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In Hermeneutics, Even Little Words Matter
[ELIZABETH INRIG] Our youngest daughter Heather always wanted her hair long. It was blonde with a slight curl, and it wasn’t hard to manage—until it was time to wash it! […]
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How Does Forgiveness Work In Believers?
COLLEEN TINKER The question of repentance and forgiveness in a believer’s life comes up frequently among former Adventists. If Jesus died once for all, if we are saved on the […]
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Letters from Jesus
Revelation 2, 3 RICHARD TINKER Richard Tinker preached this sermon at Redeemer Fellowship on July 17, 2022. Jordan Quinley read the letters to the churches. The sermon is available on […]
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The Central Theme of the Whole Bible
JORDAN QUINLEY Redeemer Catechism Series, Question 3 Having just affirmed that only the Bible “tells us all we need to know about God”, the Redeemer Catechism then asks what the […]
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Revelation 15 and 16: God’s Final Wrath
PHIL HARRIS Prelude The book of Revelation is not the only place in Scripture where we learn about God’s wrath. Jesus, for example, told us that what happened to Sodom […]
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Waging War with Shadows
Colossians 2:16–17 DENNIS PALMER “So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or Sabbaths, which are a shadow of […]
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Man and The Suitable Helper
MARTIN CAREY Writing about the nature of man has been a very humbling venture, and especially with this topic today—relationships between men and women. There is no subject more badly […]
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Abortion: What Is a Life?
COLLEEN TINKER This week I have been watching the polarized responses to last Friday’s Supreme Court decision to overturn the nearly-50-year-old ruling commonly known as Roe v. Wade. On the […]
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Bible Evidence of Sunday Worship
RICHARD K. FOSTER As someone who was a serious Adventist for many years, I know how big a hurdle worshiping on Sunday is in the minds of people from an […]
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Were Christians Keeping the Sabbath in Second Century A.D.?
WES RINGER The Seventh-day Baptists, who arose around 1650 and the Seventh-day Adventists who began keeping the Sabbath in 1846, both hold firm theological convictions that God is asking them […]
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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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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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