July 4–10
Quarter Three: Making Friends For God Lesson 2: “Winsome Witnesses: The Power of Personal Testimony” The title of this week’s lesson is chosen well. After all, what good is […]
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26. The Pope and the Sabbath
By constantly crying in the ears of the people: “Sunday is a heathen day; and all who observe it keep ‘the venerable day of the sun’” “The bishop of […]
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A God Who Knows
As I tried to get my thoughts in order for what I wanted to write, I was scrolling through my social media page, a process that took quite awhile, since […]
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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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June 27–July 4
Quarter Three: Making Friends For God Introduction and Lesson 1: “Why Witness?” Dedicating 13 weeks to the goal of sharing the gospel is an ambitious undertaking. The introduction and […]
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25. How the Lord’s Day Should be Observed
Since the rigorous, severe Sabbatical character of the Jewish Sabbath does not belong to the memorial day of the gospel, some have gone to the opposite extreme, […]
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How Ephesians Contradicts Adventism #13
Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must […]
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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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24. The Lord’s Day Prefigured in the Old Testament
The great memorial day of the gospel seems to have been clearly prefigured in the law of shadows. The Feast of Harvest. “Speak unto the children of Israel, and […]
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June 20–27
Lesson 13: “Living by the Word of God” In summing up this quarter’s lessons, we now come to the goal of rightly understanding, or interpreting, the Bible—living by the […]
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A Familiar Place of Distorted Reality
The hostile clashing of worldviews and seemingly constant shapeshifting of reality is not unfamiliar to those of us who’ve left Adventism for Jesus. As we walk through these mystifying days […]
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Suffering Without an Advocate
The strange events of the last three months have raised concerns I’ve never had before, living as I have in the freedom of the United States. I’ve written before about […]
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23. Why Christians Keep the Lord’s Day
With the exception of a few small sects, Christians universally regard Sunday as a sacred day. This has been true down through the centuries from the days of the […]
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June 13–19
Lesson 12: “Dealing With Difficult Passages” This week’s lesson is a pleasant surprise. It is very straight forward and contains some very good advice on the quarter’s main idea […]
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Learning Scripture as a Former Adventist
Part of the work we face as we retrain our Adventist-shaped minds and become biblical Christians is learning how to read Scripture. We were steeped in proof-texting and “bargaining”, on […]
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