August 6–12
Lesson 7: “Indestructible Hope” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: The author’s Adventist understanding of “hope” is confusing and unstable because it is built on a foundation of […]
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How Does Forgiveness Work In Believers?
COLLEEN TINKER The question of repentance and forgiveness in a believer’s life comes up frequently among former Adventists. If Jesus died once for all, if we are saved on 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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Annihilation Showed Me the Adventist Trap Satan almost caught me in his trap. First of all, I think all Seventh-day Adventists have broken the first of the Ten Commandments in […]
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4. Services in the Heavenly Sanctuary Before the Cross
Just here the conscientious, thoughtful reader who trembles at the Word of God and still is anxious to be loyal to his former teaching will ask: Was not the earthly […]
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July 30–August 5
Lesson 6: “Struggling With All Energy” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: The lesson attempts to teach fighting sin with Christ’s power while defending absolute free will. The […]
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Adventist Contortions While reading this week’s chapter from Ballenger’s book Cast Out For the Cross of Christ, I was impressed by the intellectual contortions the Adventist church has put itself […]
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Letters from Jesus
Revelation 2, 3 RICHARD TINKER Richard Tinker preached this sermon at Redeemer Fellowship on July 17, 2022. Jordan Quinley read the letters to the churches. The sermon is available on […]
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The Central Theme of the Whole Bible
JORDAN QUINLEY Redeemer Catechism Series, Question 3 Having just affirmed that only the Bible “tells us all we need to know about God”, the Redeemer Catechism then asks what the […]
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3. Within the Veil
That Christ entered the holy of holies at his ascension seems clearly proved from the Epistle to the Hebrews. In Heb. 6:19, 20, we have the following statement concerning Christ: “Which […]
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July 23–29
Lesson 5: “Extreme Heat” COLLEEN TINKER Problems with this lesson: The lesson again assumes the human experience is the focal point of suffering. The author misses Job’s repentance […]
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Sanctification Is Not Our Work Isn’t “sanctify” a verb? Not one that “we” do, but a verb describing what God does? Adventists are taught that justification and sanctification are two […]
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Revelation 15 and 16: God’s Final Wrath
PHIL HARRIS Prelude The book of Revelation is not the only place in Scripture where we learn about God’s wrath. Jesus, for example, told us that what happened to Sodom […]
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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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2. On the Throne
My first difficulty with the doctrines taught by Seventh-Day Adventists is the teaching that Christ began his ministry at his ascension, in the first apartment of the heavenly sanctuary. All […]
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