Stories of Faith: Journey From Fear To Faith
BARBRA CREW SCHAAK | Retired English Teacher Within the march of a few years we have journeyed from a works-based religion toward a new belief system based on faith. The […]
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Category: Faith Story
No Compromise!
NICOLE STEVENSON | Co-Host, Former Adventist Podcast After being born again my sense of identity and reality was permanently changed. I knew I had a new Father—a new God! I knew I […]
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I missed out on cheeseburgers, but I found the feast!
AERIN TOUSSAINT About seven years ago, my family left the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Looking back, it is amazing to remember the proud feeling I had when I could tell someone […]
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My Faith Is a Wreck: Now What?
MARTIN CAREY | Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Life Assurance Ministries Board Member Why is strong, confident faith in God so hard to find and keep? When I was a young […]
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My Heart is Free!
AARIKA SHEWMAKE | Story of Faith REPUBLISHED FROM PROCLAMATION!, FALL 2013 I am seventeen and the youngest of four siblings. I grew up attending a Seventh-day Adventist church since I […]
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Confessions of a Pastor’s Daughter
JANICE O. BRANTLEY | I was born exactly seven minutes before my identical twin sister, and thirteen months after my older sister. My parents, of West-Indian descent, were careful to […]
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Truth Triumphs Over Terror
NICOLE STEVENSON | Co-Host, Former Adventist Podcast One of the Apostle Paul’s great desires for the church was that we would be a growing people with lives shaped by the gospel. Led […]
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Seeing WITHOUT the Lens of Adventism
ANTHONY ANDREOLA | Blogger and Health Program Specialist I grew up Seventh-day Adventist. I don’t blame my parents; they believed they were obeying God by teaching me Adventism. They had been […]
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Do Not Touch What is Unclean
ROY TINKER | Software Engineer I want to share my own testimony of the faithfulness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ. I am the older son of Richard and […]
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My Only Comfort in Life and Death
KASPARS OZOLINS | Assistant Professor of Old Testament Interpretation, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary My family and I recently returned home from two months away in Europe for the summer break. We […]
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Rescued! How God Went Deep For Me
STANLEY ROUHE | Christ-Follower and Neurosurgeon (1943–2011) This is a story about salvation—a deep-water rescue. For years I believed that salvation and the judgment were to be determined by behavior. […]
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God Meant It For Good
ASK THE PASTOR WITH DALE RATZLAFF | Pastor and Founder, Life Assurance Ministries (1936–2024) Is it really worth it to leave Adventism when I know it’s not “the truth”? I follow several of […]
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Christ Makes Us Relevant
DARREL CARSON | Off grid loving and sharing Jesus As a child, I learned about “god”, and while still in my teens I had already started to hate him. In […]
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Into Adventism, Out of Adventism
BY “A DAUGHTER OF THE KING” | Introduction This story is a deeply personal and intimate reflection of my past: of the spiritual aspects of my childhood, what I think […]
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I Wasn’t Good Enough To Be Saved
KRISTEN RICHARDS | My name is Kristen, and this is my story. It is about what our amazing God has done, His goodness, His love, and His absolute faithfulness. In […]
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