Unmasking the Cultic Spirit
SAMUEL PESTES A cult is a simple structure designed to lock you inside a religious or psychological box. It raises walls all around you ostensibly to protect you from danger. […]
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My Changes Explained
PAM WYCKE This essay is written as an attempt to explain the recent changes in my life that have led to my re-baptism and separation from the Seventh-day Adventist Church. […]
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December 30, 2023–January 5, 2024
Lesson 1: “How to Read the Psalms” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: This week we begin a new lesson quarterly entitled Psalms, and this first week focusses on “How […]
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Christmas Tree Teaches Redemption
COLLEEN TINKER “Christmas trees are pagan. We have no business celebrating Jesus’s birth with symbols of idolatry!” Many people grew up in Adventist homes where this attitude dominated Christmas. A […]
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Daniel 3: The Fiery Furnace
PHIL HARRIS Introduction In the previous chapter Nebuchadnezzar had a dream of a huge statue that portrayed the sequence of the major succeeding world nations that would affect Israel from […]
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“…We Will Serve the Lord”
TED AND LISA BOYL-DAVIS Our story is probably similar to many of you rescued by Our Lord Jesus Christ, startling, miraculous, and shocking both to us and our families and […]
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We Got Mail
Please Expose the Quarterly’s “Galatians” We are intrigued with your exposure of the Adventist SS Quarterly and the deflective manipulation of Scripture. It is jaw-dropping stuff. A few years ago […]
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December 23–29, 2023
Lesson. 13: “The End of God’s Mission” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: • This lesson reveals Adventism’s tritheistic godhead and their assumed “mission”.• This lesson assumes the great controversy […]
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His Disciples Trust
MARTIN CAREY Jesus has always been able to draw a crowd. When He fed more than 5000 by the Sea of Galilee, the excited crowds followed him everywhere. This was […]
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We Got Mail
Relieved Not To Feel Crazy I left the Adventist church when I became a freshman in college and have never wanted to go back, even though I couldn’t identify exactly […]
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O Little Town of Bethlehem
COLLEEN TINKER In 2008 Richard and I experienced one of the most significant gifts God has ever given us (apart from saving us and giving us family): a two-week trip […]
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We Who Have Believed Entered Rest!
CYNTHIA FEARING “Now we who have believed enter that rest…” Hebrews 4:3 I was recently asked the following question(s): The answers to these questions are found in the doctrines of […]
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December 16–22, 2023
Lesson 12: “Esther and Mordecai” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: This lesson once again appropriates the word of God as an instruction manual for Adventist proselytizing. This week the […]
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We Got Mail
Adventists Are Rejecting Jesus’s Covenant Finally, I understand. The Adventist church (because it is based on the Old Covenant, and its commandments, and its Sabbath signs) spends a lot of […]
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God Gave Us the Greatest Gift of All!
MYLES CHRISTIAN Advent is probably my favorite time of the year. Every year I tend to spend quite a bit of time reflecting on Christ’s incarnation and why it deserves […]
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