Cracking Up and Breaking Free
Life Out of the Adventist Eggshell GENEVA CHINNOCK Some years ago I read an article where the author described growing up in an eggshell. She had been told that this […]
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Category: Faith Story
My Hairdresser Transformed!
COLLEEN TINKER This week I sat in a cubicle shrouded in a black cape while the one person whom I’ve trusted to cut my hair for over 15 years worked […]
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Breaking Open the Adventist Mind
DAVID DEPINHO INTRODUCTION My name is David W. DePinho. I’m happily married to my wife of 16 years, Martha, and have two grade school age children, Amanda and Matthew. I […]
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I Put Myself in God’s Hands
TROI ANDREOLA I was always interested in spiritual matters. My mother had introduced me to God as a young child, and I had a curious mind. I was drawn to […]
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I Chose My Mountain
RICHARD TINKER I was born on a mountain—Howell Mountain adjacent to the Napa Valley in Northern California. This mountain, however, is very similar to another mountain—Mt. Sinai. In order to […]
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“He Has Done All Things Well”: A Personal Update to My Testimony
KASPARS OZOLINS My first post for Proclamation! blog post (back in January, 2019) was my own testimony of coming to faith in Jesus and eventually leaving Seventh-day Adventism and joining […]
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My Anger and Four Hard Lessons
MICHAEL PURSLEY From the get-go, let me tell you that I did not have this list in my hip pocket, far from it! This list jelled gradually as I slowly […]
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Healed From My Shame
LIZ CHURCH My story is similar to that of the blind man whose story is recorded in Mark 8:22-26. Jesus healed him in “stages”, first giving him partial sight so […]
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Finally Forever Free in Jesus
Former general counsel for Loma Linda University Medical Center BILL ZIPRICK Come with me while I share the journey on which God took me when I came out from Adventism […]
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I Chose the Cross
CHRIS BADENHORST I plunged fully into Adventism, getting involved with every possible aspect of it. But because it could not provide me with a sound Gospel foundation on which to […]
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It’s a Question of Authority
[STEPHEN PITCHER] I was born into an agnostic, spiritualistic family. In spite of our ambivalence about the existence of God, though, I knew the spiritual world was as real as […]
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Reading the Bible Without the Prophet
EDGAR FRANCO Translated by Deborah Buffone I was studying Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, and Colossians in the Bible today. How beautiful and wonderful it is to see the transformation of Paul, […]
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My Two Worlds Collided
ADVENTISM AND THE CROSS CHERIE SKRIVAN I loved being an Adventist. I loved the culture, the people, the Sabbath. I didn’t imagine that day in the fall of 1992 when […]
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An Outsider Looks at Adventism
STORIES OF FAITH JONATHAN WINN “They have their own prophetess!” That was the first fact I learned about the Seventh-day Adventist church from my formerly Seventh-day Adventist wife, Lisa. Having […]
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He Shall Never Die
STANLEY ROUHE TALKS ABOUT HIS DEATH AND LIFE STANLEY ROUHE INTERVIEWED BY COLLEEN TINKER WITH RICHARD TINKER Tuesday, June 14, 2011, was a day my husband Richard and I will […]
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