Finally Forever Free in Jesus
Former general counsel for Loma Linda University Medical Center BILL ZIPRICK Come with me while I share the journey on which God took me when I came out from Adventism […]
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Category: Proclamation! Magazine Archive
From the printed version of Proclamation! magazine
I Chose the Cross
CHRIS BADENHORST I plunged fully into Adventism, getting involved with every possible aspect of it. But because it could not provide me with a sound Gospel foundation on which to […]
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To the World, From Matthew
DALE RATZLAFF Every Christmas season we are directed back to the biblical accounts of Christ’s birth in Matthew and Luke. When we review these records, both new and old insights […]
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Words Matter
THE LIFE AFTER WITH CHRIS LEE Words mean things. Language is only meaningful to the degree that humans are able to communicate using words in a conventional way, and conflicting […]
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Not for Profit
[THE LIFE AFTER WITH CHRIS LEE] I do believe that the New Covenant raises the bar in everything else; why not in giving, also? I work for a nonprofit hospital […]
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No Reason to Exist Without the Central Pillar
[DALE RATZLAFF] What spirit would want to undermine the complete atonement at the cross? You must ask yourself, “Who is my sin bearer: Christ or Satan?” The Seventh-day Adventist doctrine […]
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Are You Being Led By a Judas Goat?
MICHAEL PURSLEY There is an old story that emerged years ago from the stockyards in Chicago. The stock handlers could not find an effective way to get the sheep from […]
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The True Church Not an Institution
[CHRIS BADENHORST] Many Christian denominational creeds or statements of faith describe the nature of the Christian Church in the language of The Nicene Creed (AD 325) as the “one, holy, […]
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What Is Seventh-day Adventism?
[COLLEEN TINKER] The fall of 2015 has proven to be historic in unexpected ways. One of the most surprising unfolding events has been the campaign of retired Seventh-day Adventist neurosurgeon […]
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Reflections on Justification by Faith
[RICHARD GOYNE] In past issues of Proclamation! there have been noteworthy articles by various authors dealing with such pertinent topics as the liberating power of the gospel, the Sabbath, the […]
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Protecting the Faith Given To Us
CHRIS BADENHORST Often former Adventists are asked why they don’t just “leave Adventism alone”. Everyone is free to believe whatever he or she wants to believe, they say, but […]
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Waging War with Shadows
Colossians 2:16–17 DENNIS PALMER “So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or Sabbaths, which are a shadow of […]
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Live the Life After With a Bible
THE LIFE AFTER WITH CHRIS LEE It was painful to watch news reports of the Harold Camping fiasco on May 21. One couldn’t help but see the parallels to […]
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Does Paul Conflict with Jesus?
DALE RATZLAFF Recently, I was sitting in an audience where I heard an Adventist pastor say something to the effect that Paul had his disagreements with Jesus. Deeply disturbed, I […]
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Dear Adventist, Do You Keep the Sabbath?
TRULY ADVENTIST WITH LISA WINN The Sabbath is one of the pillars of the Seventh-day Adventist church. Ellen White says, “It means eternal salvation to keep the Sabbath holy unto the Lord.”1 […]
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