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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Category: Faith Story
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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Walking In the Light: A Journey Out of Adventism
Colleen I grew up a third generation Adventist. I went to Adventist elementary schools and an Adventist academy, and I attended Walla Walla College in Washington. I loved being an […]
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The Taylor’s Letter to Friends and Family
We are running this faith story by Greg Taylor which he wrote just as he was exiting Adventism over two decades ago. Since we first published this story on our […]
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My Journey Out of Legalism
CLAY PECK Originally presented as a spoken message on January 15, 2000 I’m calling this message, “My Journey Out of Legalism.” As I thought about that title, it occurred to […]
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Letter to My Adventist Friends
BERIT FISCHER This is the letter that I sent out to friends and family after leaving the Seventh-day Adventist church. The response I got included silence, withdrawal and accusations of […]
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My Changes Explained
PAM WYCKE This essay is written as an attempt to explain the recent changes in my life that have led to my re-baptism and separation from the Seventh-day Adventist Church. […]
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“…We Will Serve the Lord”
TED AND LISA BOYL-DAVIS Our story is probably similar to many of you rescued by Our Lord Jesus Christ, startling, miraculous, and shocking both to us and our families and […]
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