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COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Life Assurance Ministries The question is universal among those who have left Adventism (or any other group with a false gospel and a twisted soteriology): how do we […]
ASK THE PASTOR WITH DALE RATZLAFF | Pastor and Founder, Life Assurance Ministries (1936–2024) FIRST PUBLISHED IN THE PRINT VERSION OF PROCLAMATION! MAGAZINE, SUMMER, 2016. Doesn’t James 2:10 teach that if you break the Sabbath, […]
THE LIFE EXAMINED WITH CAROLYN MACOMBER | Marriage and Family Counselor This morning I woke up, and all I wanted to do was worship. All I wanted was to be […]
Lesson 12: “Tried and Crucified” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Life Assurance Ministries Problems with this lesson: In this week’s lesson covering Mark 15 and the crucifixion of the Lord Jesus, the Sabbath […]
Reflections from a former Worldwide Church of God member So what has been challenging? The fact that there is no “redo button”. I spent 50 years in a world that […]
NICOLE STEVENSON | Co-Host, Former Adventist Podcast One of the Apostle Paul’s great desires for the church was that we would be a growing people with lives shaped by the gospel. Led […]
ANTHONY ANDREOLA | Blogger and Health Program Specialist I grew up Seventh-day Adventist. I don’t blame my parents; they believed they were obeying God by teaching me Adventism. They had been […]
ROY TINKER | Software Engineer I want to share my own testimony of the faithfulness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ. I am the older son of Richard and […]
Lesson 11: “Taken and Tried” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Life Assurance Ministries Problems with this lesson: This lesson deals with Mark 14 which opens with Jesus’ being anointed with perfume at Simon […]
Grief For the Lost Years I wanted to thank you for emailing Proclamation! magazine to me every week. (Yeah, I know there are a lot of other people involved. Thankful […]
COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Life Assurance Ministries When I was an Adventist, the apostle Paul seemed almost out of reach. His epistles were obviously deep and theologically meaty, but I often felt […]
ASK THE PASTOR WITH DALE RATZLAFF | Pastor and Founder, Life Assurance Ministries (1936–2024 FIRST PUBLISHED IN THE PRINT VERSION OF PROCLAMATION! MAGAZINE, WINTER, 2015. Doesn’t the parable of the Sower teach that a believer […]
COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Life Assurance Ministries Southern California has secrets. Unless a person knows her well, So Cal appears worldly and sophisticated—and indeed, she is in many ways. She has, however, […]
Lesson 10: “The Last Days” COLLEEN TINKER | Editor, Life Assurance Ministries Problems with this lesson: This week’s lesson addresses Mark 12:41–44 through Mark 13:32. Here Mark recounts Jesus’s teaching about things […]
Clarity and Understanding To Leave I want to thank you for the Former Adventist Podcast.…In March of 2020 I received a transformed life through the true gospel preached…I went from […]
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Life Assurance Ministries was founded in 2000 by Dale Ratzlaff, former Adventist pastor and author of many books and articles on Adventism. His books are available here. Proclamation! Editor: Colleen Tinker; Former Adventist Podcast: Nikki Stevenson and Colleen Tinker; Brazil Outreach: Debbie Buffone. The board of directors of Life Assurance Ministries: Martin Carey, Cheryl Granger, Kaspars Ozolins, Carel Stevenson, and Richard Tinker.
