Spiritual Israel or Bride of Christ?
MARGIE LITTELL With COLLEEN TINKER I had an unexpected thought fill my consciousness today! I was confronted by a Seventh-day Adventist who told me I had to join the nation […]
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Category: Doctrine
God Doesn’t Make Us Good—He Justifies Us
MICHAEL PURSLEY There are many so-called Christians who firmly believe—even if they are ashamed to admit it—that they serve a God of wrath. That is to say, they serve a […]
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Is Our Love Too Tough?
COLLEEN TINKER Our advanced placement senior English class was small; we might even have called ourselves “special”. We met, seminar-style, around a large table with Mrs. Winter—our seasoned, eccentric teacher—at […]
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Who is the Source?
COLLEEN TINKER Editor’s note: The following article was written in 2009. In 2015 the General Conference in session changed the wording of Fundamental Belief #18 concerning Ellen White as the […]
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Are There More Gods than One?
Redeemer Catechism Series, Question 8 JORDAN QUINLEY In this series, we are working our way through the Redeemer Catechism. Having learned what God is and how we can know there […]
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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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Revelation 21: New Heaven and New Earth, Part 1
PHIL HARRIS But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him” […]
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Why Adventists Don’t Understand Easter
COLLEEN TINKER People ask me sometimes if Adventists celebrate Easter, and if not, why not. The answer to that question is layered. More and more, Adventists acknowledge Easter on the Sabbath […]
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Why Easter is a Big Deal
CHRIS LEE I woke up early that morning, my footie pajamas sinking into the shag carpet as I bailed out of bed and began methodically searching every spot in the […]
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The Law is Not For Us!
MARGIE LITTELL WITH COLLEEN TINKER If we cannot define, accurately, what the Gospel of Jesus is, we believe an anti-Gospel message. Let’s identify the gospel before we go any farther. […]
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What Does Jesus Command?
RICHARD FOSTER “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments” (John 14:15). As Adventists we were taught that any time we saw the word “commandments” in Scripture it always […]
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Seeing the Real Jesus in Scripture
KASPARS OZOLINS The hit streaming series The Chosen has been described as the most successful crowdfunded TV series of all time. Tens of millions of dollars from thousands of donors […]
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Life in the Spirit
DALE RATZLAFF But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and […]
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Contemplating Prayer
SHOULD WE SEEK WISDOM FROM OTHER FAITH TRADITIONS? MARTIN CAREY We have become increasingly concerned with the spiritual confusion many people face as they meet Jesus and move out of […]
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Jesus Destroys Adventism’s Counterfeit Gospel
COLLEEN TINKER Ever since our 2023 Former Adventist Conference two weeks ago, I have been pondering Paul Carden’s assessment of Seventh-day Adventism which he articulated during his talk on Friday […]
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