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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Understanding Adventist Terms
COLLEEN TINKERJEREMY GRAHAM In this article we share a (non-comprehensive) list of terms which, within Adventism, have different definitions than they have in evangelical Christianity. This difference in definitions results […]
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22. First Day Observance
Adventists are continually crying, “Sunday is the pope’s day.” They tell the people that it was the pope who started the observance of the first day of the week; […]
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Evaluating a Deceptive Dialogue with Adventists
Of all the 19th century Restorationist movements (including Mormonism and Jehovah’s Witnesses––just to name the two most familiar to evangelicals), Seventh-day Adventism has undeniably made the most headway toward evangelical […]
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21. The Great Memorial Day of the Gospel
There is nothing in the events of Saturday—the seventh day—to inspire a Christian under the gospel. Christ was in the tomb. A guard of Roman soldiers were carefully watching […]
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May 30–June 5
Lesson 10: “The Bible as History” This week we look at some of the historical accounts in the Bible and how they impact our understanding of people and events […]
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Are You Masked?
About three weeks ago I was shopping in Trader Joe’s and had taken my place in a check-out line the required six feet behind the shopper in front of me. […]
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Blindsided by the Health Message
If a survey were taken on public perception and awareness of Seventh-day Adventism, one of the first things to stand out in responses would likely be “diet.” Whether from within […]
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20. The Lord’s Day
While John was on the Isle of Patmos he testified, “I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day” (Rev. 1:10). This is the first place in the Bible […]
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