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God Doesn’t Make Us Good—He Justifies Us

May 11, 2023 Guest Doctrine, Feature

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 […]

19. Spiritual Gifts and Ministries: The Path to the Prophet

May 11, 2023 Rick Barker Adventism Examined, Books, Feature

Adventism’s Fundamental Belief #17: God bestows upon all members of His church in every age spiritual gifts which each member is to employ in loving ministry for the common good […]

May 13–19

May 11, 2023 Colleen Tinker Colleen Tinker, Feature, Sabbath School Commentary

Lesson 8: “The Sabbath And the End” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: Built on the assumption of the pre-history of Satan’s jealousy and the launch of the great […]

We Got Mail

May 4, 2023 Colleen Tinker Feature, Letters to the Editor

Sabbath Is a Way of Life for Me Thank you so much for your response [on YouTube]! I appreciate your time. Please forgive me for my ignorance here, but I […]

Is Our Love Too Tough?

May 4, 2023 Colleen Tinker Colleen Tinker, Doctrine, Feature

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 […]

Lord, Increase Our Faith

May 4, 2023 Dale Ratzlaff 2007-1 Proclamation!, Dale Ratzlaff, Feature, Proclamation! Magazine Archive

DALE RATZLAFF Faith is a little word that is given major emphasis in the New Testament. Most of us know the “faith verses” from memory such as, “For by grace […]

18. The Lord’s Supper: From the Bible or Tradition

May 4, 2023 Rick Barker Adventism Examined, Books, Feature

Adventism’s Fundamental Belief #16: The Lord’s Supper is a participation in the emblems of the body and blood of Jesus as an expression of faith in Him, our Lord and Savior. […]

May 6–12

May 4, 2023 Colleen Tinker Colleen Tinker, Feature, Sabbath School Commentary

Lesson 7: “Worshiping the Creator” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson The three angels’ messages are removed from their context to teach Adventism’s cultic doctrine. The assumption that worshiping […]

“He Has Done All Things Well”: A Personal Update to My Testimony

April 27, 2023 Kaspars Ozolins Faith Story, Feature, Kaspars Ozolins

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 […]

Who is the Source?

April 27, 2023 Colleen Tinker Colleen Tinker, Doctrine, Feature

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 […]

We Got Mail

April 27, 2023 Colleen Tinker Feature, Letters to the Editor

Reading Revelation Through A Colored Lens I commend you for taking up the reading and discussion on the books of Daniel and Revelation. Too often we read books through a […]

17. Baptism: Should Baptism be Required for Membership?

April 27, 2023 Rick Barker Adventism Examined, Books, Feature

Adventism’s Fundamental Belief #15: By baptism we confess our faith in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and testify of our death to sin and of our purpose to walk […]

April 29–May 5

April 27, 2023 Colleen Tinker Colleen Tinker, Feature, Sabbath School Commentary

Lesson 6: “The Hour of His Judgment” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: The lesson ignores the fact that Adventist scholars have long known that the framework for explaining […]

My Anger and Four Hard Lessons

April 20, 2023 Guest Devotional, Faith Story, Feature

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 […]

Are There More Gods than One?

April 20, 2023 Jordan Quinley Doctrine, Feature, Jordan Quinley, The Trinity

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 […]