Feature – Page 24 – Proclamation! Online Magazine

Cracking Up and Breaking Free

July 13, 2023 Guest Faith Story, Feature

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 […]

28. Death and Resurrection Assumes Man is Physical

July 13, 2023 Rick Barker Adventism Examined, Books, Feature, Man's Nature, State of the Dead

ADVENTISM’S FUNDAMENTAL BELIEF #26—The wages of sin is death. But God, who alone is immortal, will grant eternal life to His redeemed. Until that day death is an unconscious state […]

July 15–21

July 13, 2023 Colleen Tinker Colleen Tinker, Feature, Sabbath School Commentary

Lesson 4: “How God Rescues Us” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: This week’s lesson is almost right—and yet its confusion fails to explain humanity’s natural state and the reality […]

My Hairdresser Transformed!

July 6, 2023 Colleen Tinker Colleen Tinker, Faith Story, Feature

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 […]

Breaking Open the Adventist Mind

July 6, 2023 Guest Faith Story, Feature

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 […]

We Got Mail

July 6, 2023 Colleen Tinker Feature, Letters to the Editor

Should I Honor My Parents’ Insistence I Not Remove My Membership? I just wanted to get your advice on some thoughts I’ve been praying through and processing regarding baptism and […]

27. The Second Coming of Christ

July 6, 2023 Rick Barker Adventism Examined, Books, Feature

ADVENTISM’S FUNDAMENTAL BELIEF #25—The second coming of Christ is the blessed hope of the church, the grand climax of the gospel. The Saviour’s coming will be literal, personal, visible, and […]

July 8–14

July 6, 2023 Colleen Tinker Colleen Tinker, Feature, Sabbath School Commentary

Lesson 3: “The Power of the Exalted Jesus” COLLEEN TINKER Problems With This Lesson: This entire lesson is premised on not understanding the nature of spiritual life in believers. […]

“The Bible Is a Dirty Book”: Unbelief and Hatred for the God of the Bible

June 29, 2023 Kaspars Ozolins Bible—The Word, Doctrine, Feature, Kaspars Ozolins

KASPARS OZOLINS This month, Loren Seibold, editor of Adventist Today, wrote a provocatively titled piece: “The Bible Is a Dirty Book: …which also contains the words of eternal life.” This […]

I Put Myself in God’s Hands

June 29, 2023 Guest Faith Story, Feature

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 […]

We Got Mail

June 29, 2023 Colleen Tinker Feature, Letters to the Editor

Spirits “Cast Out” But Still Feeling Hindered I recently attended a presentation by a women’s minister who has equipping and passion for deliverance and prayer. She talked a week ago […]

26. Christ’s Ministry in the Heavenly Sanctuary

June 29, 2023 Rick Barker Adventism Examined, Books, Feature

ADVENTISM’S FUNDAMENTAL BELIEF #24—There is a sanctuary in heaven, the true tabernacle that the Lord set up and not humans. In it Christ ministers on our behalf, making available to […]

July 1–7

June 29, 2023 Colleen Tinker Colleen Tinker, Feature, Sabbath School Commentary

Lesson 2: “God’s Grand, Christ-Centered Plan” COLLEEN TINKER Problems With This Lesson: The lesson states early on that “we lose salvation only by our own sinful choices.” There is […]

Can I Trust God When Someone Sins Against Me?

June 22, 2023 Colleen Tinker Adventist Relationships, Colleen Tinker, Doctrine, Feature

COLLEEN TINKER Once again the correspondence we received during the past couple of weeks has yielded a subject that is so important we felt it deserved to be shared with […]

What Are God’s Decrees and How Does He Carry Them Out?

June 22, 2023 Jordan Quinley Doctrine, Feature, Jordan Quinley

Redeemer Catechism Series, Questions 9 and 10 JORDAN QUINLEY As we continue our study through the Redeemer Catechism, we address the next two questions that arise logically after examining how […]