What a Funeral Reveals About Your Gospel
RICK BARKER Funerals are a challenging time. The family is hurting. The presiding pastor wants to offer comfort to the family and friends, just like any caring person would. But […]
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Category: Doctrine
Leaving the Service of Humiliation
COLLEEN TINKER I was twelve years old, and my best friend whom I’ll call Lynn was a few months older. It was Thirteenth Sabbath, and she and I paired up […]
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Please Explain the Purpose Of the Law!
MARGIE LITTELL I have a question for my Adventist friends: can you show me, a Gentile, what the Scriptures say the purpose is of the huge law-system called the Torah? After […]
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Left Adventism—So What?
KASPARS OZOLINS Not all “former” Advent-ists and –isms are alike. One might be tempted to assume a similarity, though it doesn’t take much thought to realize that such an assumption […]
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Revelation 4 & 5: Worthy Is The Lord God Almighty
PHIL HARRIS Introduction To be true to the inspired word of God it is important to stay within the context. Staying in context means to keep in mind both what […]
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Is There An Age of Accountability?
COLLEEN TINKER Recently I encountered a question from a former Adventist who was upset about the idea that babies are born spiritually dead. The questioner asked how we could make […]
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How the Bible Convinced Me We Have Spirits
NICOLE STEVENSON Examining the 28 Fundamental Beliefs of Adventism for our current series on Former Adventist Podcast has been quite the experience. I confess that preparing for these episodes often […]
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Levitical Food Laws Teach Grace
KASPARS OZOLINS For former Adventists, the subject of SDA dietary teachings evokes many strong reactions. Central to leaving Adventism for us has been a proper understanding of biblical covenants, and […]
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Swept Clean But Dirtier
COLLEEN TINKER I recently had a conversation with a former Adventist whom I have known for many years. This person is struggling with some serious medical concerns that are hard […]
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The Great Controversy Requires Sabbath
DALE RATZLAFF The Adventist great controversy paradigm shaped by Ellen White’s (EGW) vision of the same name is built—not on Jesus the cornerstone—but on its own cornerstone of the law. […]
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Revelation 2 & 3: Studying the Seven Churches of Asia
BY PHIL HARRIS When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand on me, saying, “Fear not, I am the first […]
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Behold! The Bridegroom Cometh!
By Martin Carey “And at midnight there was a cry made, ‘Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him’” (Matthew 51:6). “The king is coming!” Those words should […]
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Faith and Works: The Tension Resolved
BY COLLEEN TINKER Just today I received an email asking about one of those inevitable former Adventist dilemmas: “I would appreciate your understanding on faith and works as James 2 […]
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Antiochus IV Epiphanes: Is He the Little Horn?
DANIEL 8:14 STUDIED IN CONTEXT DALE RATZLAFF Most of our readers know that I and many other former Seventh-day Adventists left that church because of what we considered to be […]
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What’s So Important About the Holy Spirit?
BEVERLY QUINN BESSADA I pondered my friend’s question as I chatted with a group of old schoolmates who were still Adventists: does anyone here believe in the Holy Spirit? Her […]
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