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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Category: Doctrine
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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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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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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Adventist’s Sabbath Trumps Resurrection
COLLEEN TINKER Last week we received a hand-addressed envelope in the mail from someone we didn’t know. Richard opened it, and inside we found a hand-written letter and a pamphlet […]
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How We Worship In Spirit and Truth
Part One: Adventism—It’s Physical MARTIN CAREY “If only I lived closer to that well.” She sighed and lifted her clay water jar over her shoulder and stepped into the hot […]
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