Proclamation! Magazine Archive – Proclamation! Online Magazine

Wrath (But Not For Us)

March 13, 2025 Dale Ratzlaff 2012-2 Proclamation!, Dale Ratzlaff, Doctrine, Feature, Hell, Proclamation! Magazine Archive

DALE RATZLAFF | Pastor and Founder, Life Assurance Ministries (1936–2024) Many scholars consider Romans 3:21-26 to be one of the most important sections of the entire Bible. Renowned New Testament scholar Leon […]

Part 3: The Call to Commitment

March 6, 2025 Proclamation! 2003-3 Proclamation!, Doctrine, Feature

RICHARD FREDERICKS, PH.D. | Former Adventist Pastor Should the Adventist Church take a stand against the practice of abortion? Yes, for many reasons. The most common argument against this step is a […]

Part 2: The Quality of Life Ethic

February 27, 2025 Proclamation! 2003-2 Proclamation!, Doctrine, Feature

RICHARD FREDERICKS, PH.D. | Former Adventist Pastor This portion of the article flows from two basic perspectives. First, it takes seriously the authority Scripture has over human reason as the final arbitrator […]

Part 1: Less Than Human?

February 20, 2025 Proclamation! 2003-1 Proclamation!, Doctrine, Feature

RICHARD FREDERICKS, PH.D. | Former Adventist Pastor The apostle John Wrote: “Dear children, let us not love simply with our words and tongues, but with our deeds and in truth” […]

Paul and the Afterlife in 2 Corinthians

February 6, 2025 Dale Ratzlaff 2001-3 Proclamation!, Dale Ratzlaff, State of the Dead

Confronting a Passage I Used To Run From: 2 Corinthians 5:1–9 DALE RATZLAFF | Pastor and Founder, Life Assurance Ministries (1936–2024) When I was Seventh-day Adventist pastor and Bible teacher and had […]

Logical Fallacies in Biblical Interpretation

February 6, 2025 Proclamation! 2001-2 Proclamation!, Bible—The Word, Feature

VERLE STREIFLING | Retired Pastor and Theologian Having seen some 35 methods of scripture twisting which cults frequently use to pervert God’s truth (last issue), we will now review numerous logical […]

Law Not Abolished?

January 30, 2025 Dale Ratzlaff 2008-2 Proclamation!, Dale Ratzlaff, Feature, The Law of God

ASK THE PASTOR WITH DALE RATZLAFF | Pastor and Founder, Life Assurance Ministries (1936–2024) Question: How do you explain Matthew 5:17–19? “Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the […]

Leaving Adventism, Embracing the Gospel

January 30, 2025 Proclamation! 2016-2 Proclamation!, Faith Story, Feature

ELCE-JUNIOR “THUNDER” LAURISTON | Christian Minister I was born almost accidentally in Haiti on a small island known in French as Ile de La Tortue, and in Spanish as Tortuga […]

Maligning Adventists?

January 23, 2025 Dale Ratzlaff 2008-3 Proclamation!, Adventist Doctrines, Dale Ratzlaff

ASK THE PASTOR WITH DALE RATZLAFF | Pastor and Founder, Life Assurance Ministries (1936–2024) At the conclusion of the presentation on Friday night at the Former Adventist Fellowship (FAF) weekend this past February […]

Do Adventists preach another gospel?

January 16, 2025 Dale Ratzlaff 2003-3 Proclamation!, Adventist Doctrines, Dale Ratzlaff, Doctrine, Gospel

DALE RATZLAFF | Pastor and Founder, Life Assurance Ministries (1936–2024) There are two extremes that the Church must continually face; either of which could prove fatal. Like driving down a road while […]

Why do so many reject assurance of eternal life?

January 16, 2025 Proclamation! 2003-3 Proclamation!, Gospel

MIKE GENDRON | Proclaiming the Gospel: A Ministry to Roman Catholics Several years ago a pastor in Pennsylvania, concerned for the salvation of the many Roman Catholics in his community, […]

Whom Do I Believe?

January 10, 2025 Dale Ratzlaff 2008-1 Proclamation!, Dale Ratzlaff, Devotional, Feature

ASK THE PASTOR WITH DALE RATZLAFF | Pastor and Founder, Life Assurance Ministries (1936–2024) Q. Adventists tell me that Life Assurance Ministries is teaching error and I should not even read Proclamation! […]

The Sabbath Trumpet: An Uncertain Sound

January 2, 2025 Proclamation! 2002-1 Proclamation!, Doctrine, Feature, The Sabbath

VERLE STREIFLING | Retired Pastor and Theologian A few days ago, as my friend was witnessing in the mall, she was given a tract distributed by The Voice of Prophecy […]

From Despair to Life

January 2, 2025 Proclamation! 2014-1 Proclamation!, Faith Story

CHARLES COCHRAN | Retired High School Teacher When I look back, I’m still puzzled as to why I converted from my Southern Baptist upbringing to Adventism. I was born again when […]

What Is Integrity?

December 26, 2024 Carolyn Macomber 2011-1 Proclamation!, Carolyn Macomber, Devotional, Feature

CAROLYN MACOMBER | The Life Examined What does it mean to live with integrity? The word “integrity” is defined as the state of being whole and undivided. The opposite of […]