Do You Know the Truth?
MARTIN CAREY | Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Life Assurance Ministries Board Member Pilate said to Jesus, “What is truth?” and then he walked away. He didn’t wait for an answer […]
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Category: Doctrine
Did Jesus Have a Holy, Sinless Nature?
ASK THE PASTOR WITH DALE RATZLAFF | Pastor and Founder, Life Assurance Ministries (1936–2024 FIRST PUBLISHED IN THE PRINT VERSION OF PROCLAMATION! MAGAZINE, WINTER, 2014. As we approach another Christmas season our thoughts […]
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A Gospel Appeal for Adventists
RICHARD FOSTER | Contributor Our Lord Jesus gave two commands which He said summarize all of the law and the prophets. The first and greatest commandment is to love the […]
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Separating in Order to Draw Near
ASK THE PASTOR WITH DALE RATZLAFF | Pastor and Founder, Life Assurance Ministries (1936–2024) If a person professes Jesus’ incarnation, His death, and His resurrection, why does it matter what “secondary practices” we […]
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Is There a Coming Time of Trouble?
ASK THE PASTOR WITH DALE RATZLAFF | Pastor and Founder, Life Assurance Ministries (1936–2024) Do you believe there is a coming time of trouble? If so, how can we prepare for it? The […]
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False Abraham Created By Ellen White
KASPARS OZOLINS | Assistant Professor, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Growing up in a progressive Adventist household, I was not raised to read the writings of Ellen G. White. While she was […]
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Wasting Time on Doctrine and Theology?
ASK THE PASTOR WITH DALE RATZLAFF | Pastor and Founder, Life Assurance Ministries (1936–2024) Why do you spend so much time examining doctrine and theology? Doctrine and theology are important. However, neither one […]
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How Can You Have Life Assurance?
ASK THE PASTOR WITH DALE RATZLAFF | Pastor and Founder, Life Assurance Ministries (1936–2024) How can you have what you call “life assurance” when you are not keeping God’s commandments? Athorough answer to […]
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Is Sprinkling Good Enough?
ASK THE PASTOR WITH DALE RATZLAFF | Pastor and Founder, Life Assurance Ministries (1936–2024) Does a person who was baptized as an infant by sprinkling need to be re-baptized by immersion when he/she […]
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Facing Death
ASK THE PASTOR WITH DALE RATZLAFF | Pastor and Founder, Life Assurance Ministries (1936–2024) Pastor Ratzlaff, don’t you ever worry about whether you are saved? You are not a young man anymore—don’t you […]
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3. Israel Learns of the Sabbath
JERRY RECTOR | Physician There is no record of Joseph getting in trouble in Potiphar’s house or in jail for keeping Sabbath. No record of Pharaoh desecrating the Sabbath by making the Jews […]
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Overthrowing the Son: How Adventism Denies God His Glory
KASPARS OZOLINS | Assistant Professor, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary At times, we all ought to wisely stop rushing through our busy lives and ponder an important question, “What on […]
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2. Did Abraham Keep the Sabbath?
JERRY RECTOR | Physician So we come to Abraham. God communes with him and they develop an amazing relationship. Paul says his faith was credited to him as righteousness, as […]
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1. Sabbath Not Changed
JERRY RECTOR | Physician Answering the question of why I no longer “keep” Sabbath in the manner I was raised is fairly common for me now days. Almost all other […]
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Adventism’s Unifying Theory: The Great Controversy
MYLES CHRISTIAN | I was recently having a discussion with a theology professor who was interested to hear more about Seventh-day Adventist theology due to his regular engagement with those […]
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