My Faith Is a Wreck: Now What?
MARTIN CAREY | Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Life Assurance Ministries Board Member Why is strong, confident faith in God so hard to find and keep? When I was a young […]
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Prayers I Didn’t Know to Pray
LIVING BY THE SPIRIT WITH CORA HOLDER | Nurse Raise a shout for God, all the earth; sing the glory of His name, make glorious His praise. Selah. Come and […]
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The Nature of Man and Death
VERLE STREIFLING, PhD | Minister, Author, And Missionary In her Dec 12 1844 vision, Ellen White records Jesus and her ‘winging our way upward’ in heaven, and “here we saw […]
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October 5–11, 2024
Lesson 2: “Signs of Divinity” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Life Assurance Ministries Problems with this lesson: This week’s Sabbath School lesson breezes over three of John’s most revealing accounts of Jesus’ true […]
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We Got Mail
I Need Help Exiting This Mess I’m in my 40s, a fourth-generation Adventist pastor’s kid. I just need some help trying to get out of this mess, and I need […]
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What the Current Division Within Adventism Teaches Us
MYLES CHRISTIAN | Host, Answering Adventism New drama has sparked within the Adventist universe prompted by the cancellation of an Adventist pastor by the name of Conrad Vine—particularly with some statements he […]
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Why do you persist in publishing against Adventism and the Sabbath?
DALE RATZLAFF | Pastor and Founder, Life Assurance Ministries (1936–2024) Republished and edited from Proclamation!, Fall 2016 It began in the early 80’s when a small group of us organized a church […]
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My Heart is Free!
AARIKA SHEWMAKE | Story of Faith REPUBLISHED FROM PROCLAMATION!, FALL 2013 I am seventeen and the youngest of four siblings. I grew up attending a Seventh-day Adventist church since I […]
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September 28–October 4, 2024
Lesson 1: “Signs That Point the Way” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Life Assurance Ministries Problems with this lesson: This quarter the Sabbath School lessons are a series focussing on the gospel of […]
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We Got Mail
Response to “Messing With the Trinity” I never knew how badly Seventh-day Adventists deny Christ as God. Even in their Heavenly Trio, they seem to accept Jesus as PART of […]
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Reset: “I’m Not Good Enough”
KELSIE PETERSEN | Contributor and a Boy-Mom I have a recurring dream that seems to come around when my waking hours seem overpacked and I feel like I’m going to drop a […]
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We Can Trust the Bible
DALE RATZLAFF | Pastor and Founder, Life Assurance Ministries (1936–2024) How does one choose the right version of the Bible? Do we choose the one that translates our favorite verses the way […]
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Confessions of a Pastor’s Daughter
JANICE O. BRANTLEY | I was born exactly seven minutes before my identical twin sister, and thirteen months after my older sister. My parents, of West-Indian descent, were careful to […]
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September 21–27, 2024
Lesson 13: “The Risen Lord” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Life Assurance Ministries Problems with this lesson: This lesson covers the end of Mark 15:42–16:6 where Mark writes about Jesus’ resurrection. Yet although […]
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We Got Mail
I Have Come to Know Jesus I hope this message finds you well. I wanted to reach out to express my heartfelt gratitude for the impact your podcast (Former Adventist […]
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