Whom Do I Believe?
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! […]
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Category: Proclamation! Magazine Archive
From the printed version of Proclamation! magazine
The Sabbath Trumpet: An Uncertain Sound
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 […]
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From Despair to Life
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 […]
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What Is Integrity?
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 […]
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The Promise That Led Us Out
BEN AND DELINA MCPHAULL | Faith Story When Ben and Delina McPhaull married, their vows included (Ben): I promise to guide, protect and provide for you, so together we can […]
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The Sabbath: From Ritual to Reality
DALE RATZLAFF | Pastor and Founder, Life Assurance Ministries (1936–2024) A farmer in the med-west had a small apple orchard that his cows occasionally would get into, so he decided to build […]
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Confessions of a Former Adventist
RODNEY D. NELSON | Faith Story I fondly recall my experience in that small Adventist church in the Yakima Valley of Washington State. It was a church full of loving […]
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Wise Men Still Seek Him
DALE RATZLAFF | Pastor and Founder, Life Assurance Ministries (1936–2024) What is significant about the story of the magi? On the back window of a pickup I recently saw a decal which […]
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If what you believe is not biblical, would you want to know?
COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Proclamation! Magazine The voice on the phone was intense and agitated; the young woman speaking to me was bright and articulate—but confused. She considered herself a former Adventist […]
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The Gospel is Good News!
DALE RATZLAFF | Pastor and Founder, Life Assurance Ministries (1936–2024) The New Testament makes it clear that obedience to the law is neither a good definition of the righteousness of God nor […]
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Come Experience the Joy of Jesus
THOMAS FRANCIS | Broadcasting, Insurance, and Law Enforcement Jesus said, “These things I have spoken to you that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be […]
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Recant, no! I stand firm.
WALTER REA | Author of The White Lie Editor’s Note: In 1982 Walter Rea published The White Lie after Seventh-day Adventist administrators failed to keep their promise to reveal Ellen […]
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I Stand Alone On the Word of God
ESTHER SHU | Faith Story My mother and my father came from large families of thirteen and eleven children, respectively. My mother completed third grade, and my father completed seventh. […]
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Encountering the Risen Christ on the Road to Emmaus
DALE RATZLAFF | Pastor and Founder, Life Assurance Ministries (1936–2024) Originally published in the March/April 2002 print edition of Proclamation! The literal bodily resurrection of Christ is the non-negotiable foundation upon which true […]
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Transitioning to the New Covenant
CLAY PECK | Former Adventist Pastor Originally published in the March/April 2002 print edition of Proclamation! Some of you transitioned long ago. Some of you transitioned more recently. Some of […]
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