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8. Colossians and the Law

June 13, 2024 Guest Feature, Jerry Rector, New Covenant, The Law of God, The Sabbath, The Sabbath Fulfilled

JERRY RECTOR | Physician The book of Colossians also has a purpose of refocusing the emphasis of these Gentile Christian churches back on the gospel from other elements that would lead them […]

Is Sprinkling Good Enough?

June 6, 2024 Dale Ratzlaff 2012-2 Proclamation!, Dale Ratzlaff, Doctrine, Feature, New Covenant

ASK THE PASTOR WITH DALE RATZLAFF | Pastor and Founder, Life Assurance Ministries (1936–2024) Does a person who was baptized as an infant by sprinkling need to be re-baptized by immersion when he/she […]

7. Galatians and the Law

June 6, 2024 Guest Feature, Jerry Rector, New Covenant, The Law of God, The Sabbath, The Sabbath Fulfilled

JERRY RECTOR | Physician Let’s move from here then to the book of Galatians whose stated purpose is to respond to “Judaizing Christians” who were urging traditional Jewish worship on the newly […]

Covenant of Greater Glory

May 30, 2024 Kelsie Petersen Feature, Kelsie Petersen, New Covenant

KELSIE PETERSEN | Former Adventist and Mom of Three Boys In the past months, I admit I’ve been stuck. It seems when I sit down to read the Bible, the […]

6. What About Paul and the Sabbath?

May 30, 2024 Guest Feature, Jerry Rector, New Covenant, The Law of God, The Sabbath, The Sabbath Fulfilled

JERRY RECTOR | Physician In the past, as a Sabbath keeper, I used the argument that since Paul kept the Sabbath, that was evidence that we should too. However, the Bible does […]

5. The Law Fulfilled

May 23, 2024 Guest Feature, Jerry Rector, New Covenant, The Law of God, The Sabbath, The Sabbath Fulfilled

JERRY RECTOR | Physician So, I think you’ll agree that what Jesus is stating in Matthew 5:17 is that He has come to fulfill the entire Old Testament. Then in verse 18, […]

4. Jesus and Rituals

May 16, 2024 Guest Books, Feature, Jerry Rector, New Covenant, The Sabbath, The Sabbath Fulfilled

JERRY RECTOR | Physician Should our desire to follow Jesus’ example translate into Sabbath-keeping? I’d like to highlight a couple of points about how Jesus related to the rituals of his day. […]

Should We Leave the “Isms”?

May 9, 2024 Colleen Tinker Bible—The Word, Colleen Tinker, Feature, New Covenant

COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Life Assurance Ministries Since the earliest days of the now-inactive Former Adventist Fellowship Forum which provided perhaps the first online forum with a Bible-based focus for […]

3. Israel Learns of the Sabbath

May 9, 2024 Guest Books, Doctrine, Feature, Jerry Rector, New Covenant, The Sabbath, The Sabbath Fulfilled

JERRY RECTOR | Physician There is no record of Joseph getting in trouble in Potiphar’s house or in jail for keeping Sabbath. No record of Pharaoh desecrating the Sabbath by making the Jews […]

Is Sunday Sacred?

April 25, 2024 Dale Ratzlaff Dale Ratzlaff, Feature, New Covenant, The Sabbath

ASK THE PASTOR WITH DALE RATZLAFF | Question: What do you say to people who advocate Sunday “sacredness” or keeping Sunday as a measure of one’s gratitude to God? This […]

What About the Ten Commandments

April 18, 2024 Guest Adventist Doctrines, Chris Badenhorst, Feature, New Covenant, The Law of God, The Sabbath

CHRIS BADENHORST | What is the role of the Law in the Christian life? Are the Ten Commandments still binding on believers in Jesus Christ? Is the Decalogue still the […]

What Are New Covenant Ethics? The Ten Commandments?

April 11, 2024 Guest 2007-4 Proclamation!, Adventist Doctrines, Chris Badenhorst, Feature, New Covenant, Proclamation! Magazine Archive

CHRIS BADENHORST | Introduction In a secular sense ethics can be defined as the science of conduct. It is a systematic attempt to consider the purposeful actions of mankind so […]

Do I Need To Be Perfect?

March 28, 2024 Richard Foster Doctrine, Feature, Gospel, Man's Nature, New Covenant, Richard Foster

Sinless Perfection Or Faith and Repentance RICHARD FOSTER | As former Adventists we have all heard the reasoning. No disobedient person will enter heaven, therefore only those who perfectly keep […]

What Commandments Do Christians Follow?

March 7, 2024 Dale Ratzlaff 2007-2 Proclamation!, Dale Ratzlaff, Doctrine, New Covenant, Proclamation! Magazine Archive, The Law of God, The Sabbath

ASK THE PASTOR WITH DALE RATZLAFF | Q: If the Ten Commandments came in with Moses and lasted only until Christ, as you say the new covenant teaches, then what […]

Is the Fourth Commandment a Moral Law?

February 1, 2024 Colleen Tinker Adventist Doctrines, Colleen Tinker, Doctrine, New Covenant, The Law of God, The Sabbath

COLLEEN TINKER The question was heartfelt—even a little desperate. The writer, a never-been-Adventist, was struggling to deal with the Sabbath arguments of a well-known Adventist theologian and writer who happened […]