News from Bethlehem
Our bus traveled south from Jerusalem and headed toward the wall. We stopped while young soldiers with guns slung casually over their shoulders checked our passports. O little town of […]
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Category: Proclamation! Magazine Archive
From the printed version of Proclamation! magazine
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us.
DALE RATZLAFF I well remember the day that our little Bruce—now a big, strong contractor—started asking questions. We lived in Napa, California, and were driving back from Conn Lake. Bruce […]
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God Has No Plan B
The life AFTER with Chris Lee Plan B: it’s what you do when your best laid plans go awry. I guess I’ve always thought of Christmas as God’s Plan B. […]
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Dear Adventist, Have You Disciplined Your Diet?
Many Adventists today are unfamiliar with the writings of Ellen White, and Lisa Winn wishes to re-acquaint them with the roots of their faith. This column is intended either to […]
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An Uncertain Gospel: The Problem of Open Theism
MARTIN L. CAREY Editor’s note: One of the preconceived ideas we as Adventists held—an idea shared with many Christians as well—is that of ultimate human self-determination. Even God, we […]
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Nailed! The law in Colossians
R. K. MCGREGOR WRIGHT Preamble Behind the letter to the Colossians, there was a serious Gnostic-type of legalistic and mythical teaching. It was called “the Colossian Heresy” by such scholars […]
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Living in the Church, the Body of Christ
…we have one concern that I want to address in this short article. Some of the “formers” we met are not regular in church attendance. Some have not been in […]
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Contextualization: What Former Adventists Don’t Need
A couple of months ago I read an article entitled “Walter Martin Was Wrong: A Critique and Alternative to the Counter-Cult Approach to Cults” by John Morehead. Now, I believe […]
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Why We Love God’s Word
C O V E R F E A T U R E BY DALE RATZLAFF Strike where it leaves the pattern I started Pacific Union College with a math […]
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Discovering the Adventist Jesus
COLLEEN TINKERJEREMY GRAHAM, RESEARCH ASSISTANCE I don’t remember exactly the moment I first heard someone say that as an Adventist, she had believed in a different Jesus from the one […]
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Good Medicine
THE LIFE AFTER WITH CHRIS LEE I’ve spent five months researching and writing an article on Adventist Revelation Seminars, five months immersed in darkness. That’s a large dose of bad […]
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Raising Children Who Love the Word
By Amy Herwig The daunting task of teaching and training our children in the fear and admonition of the Lord is a subject which has filled numerous books over the […]
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Are Other Worlds Watching Us?
MARTIN L. CAREYAndromeda galaxy M31 photographed by Wolfgang Promper of Austria. Used by permission. …when I accepted the gospel of the New Testament, I realized it was also time […]
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Who Is Your Scapegoat?
CHRIS BANDENHORST Aaron shall cast lots for the two goats, one lot for the LORD and the other lot for the scapegoat. Then Aaron shall offer the goat on […]
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Distortion of the Afterlife
This article is excerpted from a forthcoming book by Stephen Pitcher on the Adventist “devotional paraphrase” of the Bible, The Clear Word (TCW). Written by Jack Blanco when he was […]
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