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Former AdventistAdopted by God | Romans 8:12–17 | 308The Book of Romans Series: Nikki and Colleen talk through Romans 8:12–17. Did you know that when you trust Jesus, you are adopted permanently by the God of the universe and you are in His family? Colleen and Nikki also discuss Andrew Farley and his non-biblical teaching of hyper-grace.Music: Falling Awake © 2010 Nathanael Tinker. Used by permission.©2025 Life Assurance Ministries, all rights reserved.Support the showWebsite, donation link: http://proclamationmagazine.com/Facebook—Former Adventist: https://www.facebook.com/FormerAdventist/Facebo...2025-04-0854 minFormer AdventistAll About This Podcast: Why We Don't Debate | 300Nikki and Colleen talk about this podcast including the foundational values and practices of Former Adventist Podcast. One request that we often receive is for Nikki and Colleen to debate someone from the Adventist organization. Why don't they do it? (Music: Falling Awake © 2010 Nathanael Tinker. Used by permission.)Support the showWebsite, donation link: http://proclamationmagazine.com/Facebook—Former Adventist: https://www.facebook.com/FormerAdventist/Facebook—Life Assurance Ministries: https://www.facebook.com/ProclamationMagazine/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FormerAdventist2025-02-1114 minFormer AdventistAunt Sevvy Advises Adventist to Find Happiness | 260Colleen and Nikki take a break from Revelation and respond to Adventist Today's Aunt Sevvy, a column that appears in the magazine and website. A reader asked Aunt Savvy about their problem of not believing all the doctrines of Adventism. Colleen and Nikki give their reactions to Aunty's surprising answer. (Music: Falling Awake © 2010 Nathanael Tinker. Used by permission.)Support the showWebsite, donation link: http://proclamationmagazine.com/Facebook—Former Adventist: https://www.facebook.com/FormerAdventist/Facebook—Life Assurance Ministries: https://www.facebook.com/ProclamationMagazine/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Forme...2024-05-0721 minFormer AdventistThe Rapture Revealed | 217Colleen and Nikki talk through the Rapture and how Biblically based denominations don't fully agree on the timing. How do Colleen and Nikki believe, and how is their belief founded on Scripture? (Music: Falling Awake © 2010 Nathanael Tinker. Used by permission.)Support the showWebsite, donation link: http://proclamationmagazine.com/Facebook—Former Adventist: https://www.facebook.com/FormerAdventist/Facebook—Life Assurance Ministries: https://www.facebook.com/ProclamationMagazine/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FormerAdventist2023-07-1139 minFormer AdventistReap What You Sow (As a Christian)—Galatians 6:6–10 | 165Series: Galatians. Colleen and Nikki discuss Galatians 6:6–10 where Paul teaches about sowing and reaping, and doing good to all people, especially to those of the household of God. These verses were "triggering" for Colleen and Nikki when they were in Adventism. (Music: Falling Awake © 2010 Nathanael Tinker. Used by permission.)Support the showWebsite, donation link: http://proclamationmagazine.com/Facebook—Former Adventist: https://www.facebook.com/FormerAdventist/Facebook—Life Assurance Ministries: https://www.facebook.com/ProclamationMagazine/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FormerAdventist2022-07-1244 minFormer AdventistInspecting Adventism's Beliefs—Introduction | 99Colleen and Nikki introduce a new series in which they will inspect in the light of the Bible each of the doctrines of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. (Music: Falling Awake © 2010 Nathanael Tinker. Used by permission.)Support the showWebsite, donation link: http://proclamationmagazine.com/Facebook—Former Adventist: https://www.facebook.com/FormerAdventist/Facebook—Life Assurance Ministries: https://www.facebook.com/ProclamationMagazine/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FormerAdventist2021-04-0656 minFormer AdventistBorn Again Believers Have Protection — Ephesians 6, Part 2 | 98Colleen and Nikki talk through Ephesians 6:10-24. Learn how born-again Christians have protective armor and one amazing weapon. (Music: Falling Awake © 2010 Nathanael Tinker. Used by permission.)Support the showWebsite, donation link: http://proclamationmagazine.com/Facebook—Former Adventist: https://www.facebook.com/FormerAdventist/Facebook—Life Assurance Ministries: https://www.facebook.com/ProclamationMagazine/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FormerAdventist2021-03-3057 minFormer AdventistHow Christian Employees Are the Best — Ephesians 6, Part 1 | 97Colleen and Nikki talk through Ephesians 6:1-9. This passage covers the relationship between parents and children, and bosses and employees among born-again Christians. (Music: Falling Awake © 2010 Nathanael Tinker. Used by permission.)Support the showWebsite, donation link: http://proclamationmagazine.com/Facebook—Former Adventist: https://www.facebook.com/FormerAdventist/Facebook—Life Assurance Ministries: https://www.facebook.com/ProclamationMagazine/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FormerAdventist2021-03-2348 minFormer AdventistSubmitting and Loving in Christian Marriage — Ephesians 5, Part 2 | 96Colleen and Nikki talk through Ephesians 5:22-33. This is the famous passage that tells wives to submit and husbands to love and echoes the Lord Jesus and His Church. (Music: Falling Awake © 2010 Nathanael Tinker. Used by permission.)Support the showWebsite, donation link: http://proclamationmagazine.com/Facebook—Former Adventist: https://www.facebook.com/FormerAdventist/Facebook—Life Assurance Ministries: https://www.facebook.com/ProclamationMagazine/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FormerAdventist2021-03-1750 minFormer AdventistNow We Can Really Sing! — Ephesians 5, Part 1 | 95Colleen and Nikki talk about Ephesians 5:1-21 which teaches that born-again believers are imitators of God—not for salvation, but because of salvation. (Music: Falling Awake © 2010 Nathanael Tinker. Used by permission.)Support the showWebsite, donation link: http://proclamationmagazine.com/Facebook—Former Adventist: https://www.facebook.com/FormerAdventist/Facebook—Life Assurance Ministries: https://www.facebook.com/ProclamationMagazine/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FormerAdventist2021-03-1055 minFormer AdventistWe Believed that the Holy Spirit Would Leave — Ephesians 4, Part 4 | 94Colleen and Nikki talk about Ephesians 4:25-32 where the central passage teaches the idea of our grieving the Holy Spirit. Does grieving mean leaving? (Music: Falling Awake © 2010 Nathanael Tinker. Used by permission.)Support the showWebsite, donation link: http://proclamationmagazine.com/Facebook—Former Adventist: https://www.facebook.com/FormerAdventist/Facebook—Life Assurance Ministries: https://www.facebook.com/ProclamationMagazine/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FormerAdventist2021-03-0450 minFormer AdventistWe Walked Like the Gentiles Walk — Ephesians 4, Part 3 | 93Colleen and Nikki talk about Ephesians 4:17-24 where Paul teaches what it means to not walk as Gentiles, but to walk in Christ. Colleen talks about trying to help students at Gem State Academy without having the gospel to share with them. (Music: Falling Awake © 2010 Nathanael Tinker. Used by permission.)Support the showWebsite, donation link: http://proclamationmagazine.com/Facebook—Former Adventist: https://www.facebook.com/FormerAdventist/Facebook—Life Assurance Ministries: https://www.facebook.com/ProclamationMagazine/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FormerAdventist2021-02-2551 minFormer AdventistLive at Former Adventist Conference 2021 | 92Nikki and Colleen talk about life as former Adventists. They also take questions from podcast listeners. This episode was recorded on the second day of the Former Adventist Conference held in Loma Linda, California, February 12–14, 2021. Video version is on YouTube at FormerAdventist in the 2021 conference playlist. (Music: Falling Awake © 2010 Nathanael Tinker. Used by permission.)Support the showWebsite, donation link: http://proclamationmagazine.com/Facebook—Former Adventist: https://www.facebook.com/FormerAdventist/Facebook—Life Assurance Ministries: https://www.facebook.com/ProclamationMagazine/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FormerAdventist2021-02-1652 minFormer AdventistEllen White Compared To the Gifts of the Spirit — Ephesians 4, Part 2 | 91Nikki and Colleen talk about the gifts of the Holy Spirit. They also delve into the differences between the true gifts and the manifestations that Adventism's prophet experienced. (Music: Falling Awake © 2010 Nathanael Tinker. Used by permission.)Support the showWebsite, donation link: http://proclamationmagazine.com/Facebook—Former Adventist: https://www.facebook.com/FormerAdventist/Facebook—Life Assurance Ministries: https://www.facebook.com/ProclamationMagazine/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FormerAdventist2021-02-0951 minFormer AdventistUnity is Possible! — Ephesians 4, Part 1 | 90Nikki and Colleen talk about what it means to have unity in the church—not the unity that the world seeks, and how it functions even during disagreements. (Music: Falling Awake © 2010 Nathanael Tinker. Used by permission.)Support the showWebsite, donation link: http://proclamationmagazine.com/Facebook—Former Adventist: https://www.facebook.com/FormerAdventist/Facebook—Life Assurance Ministries: https://www.facebook.com/ProclamationMagazine/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FormerAdventist2021-02-0254 minFormer AdventistAre You Working Hard to be Saved? — Ephesians 3, Part 2 | 89Nikki and Colleen talk about what it means to do the works of God and how to tell if your works are only the works of your "flesh". (Music: Falling Awake © 2010 Nathanael Tinker. Used by permission.)Support the showWebsite, donation link: http://proclamationmagazine.com/Facebook—Former Adventist: https://www.facebook.com/FormerAdventist/Facebook—Life Assurance Ministries: https://www.facebook.com/ProclamationMagazine/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FormerAdventist2021-01-2651 minFormer AdventistProgressive Revelation Illusion — Ephesians 3, Part 1 | 88Nikki and Colleen share their former belief in progressive revelation and the way that this teaching is used to obscure mistakes and contradictions. (Music: Falling Awake © 2010 Nathanael Tinker. Used by permission.)Support the showWebsite, donation link: http://proclamationmagazine.com/Facebook—Former Adventist: https://www.facebook.com/FormerAdventist/Facebook—Life Assurance Ministries: https://www.facebook.com/ProclamationMagazine/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FormerAdventist2021-01-1955 minFormer AdventistHere Now! The New Temple of God — Ephesians 2, Part 7 | 87Nikki and Colleen talk about how believers are built on the cornerstone of Christ and are the temple of God in the New Covenant. (Music: Falling Awake © 2010 Nathanael Tinker. Used by permission.)Support the showWebsite, donation link: http://proclamationmagazine.com/Facebook—Former Adventist: https://www.facebook.com/FormerAdventist/Facebook—Life Assurance Ministries: https://www.facebook.com/ProclamationMagazine/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FormerAdventist2021-01-1245 minFormer AdventistAdventism's Prophet Dismisses Scripture — Ephesians 2, Part 6 | 86Nikki and Colleen continue their walk through chapter 2 of Ephesians by comparing Adventism's prophet Ellen G. White with the clear teaching of the Bible. (Music: Falling Awake © 2010 Nathanael Tinker. Used by permission.)Support the showWebsite, donation link: http://proclamationmagazine.com/Facebook—Former Adventist: https://www.facebook.com/FormerAdventist/Facebook—Life Assurance Ministries: https://www.facebook.com/ProclamationMagazine/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FormerAdventist2021-01-0545 minFormer AdventistHow to Survive the New Year — Ephesians 2, Part 5 | 85Nikki and Colleen discuss the basis of their surviving 2020 and the absolute truth that will keep them through 2021. (Music: Falling Awake © 2010 Nathanael Tinker. Used by permission.)Support the showWebsite, donation link: http://proclamationmagazine.com/Facebook—Former Adventist: https://www.facebook.com/FormerAdventist/Facebook—Life Assurance Ministries: https://www.facebook.com/ProclamationMagazine/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FormerAdventist2020-12-2940 minFormer AdventistJesus Did Not Vindicate God — Ephesians 2, Part 3 | 83Nikki and Colleen share the truth of why Jesus was born. He is the way, not the one to show us the how to keep the Sabbath. (Music: Falling Awake © 2010 Nathanael Tinker. Used by permission.)Support the showWebsite, donation link: http://proclamationmagazine.com/Facebook—Former Adventist: https://www.facebook.com/FormerAdventist/Facebook—Life Assurance Ministries: https://www.facebook.com/ProclamationMagazine/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FormerAdventist2020-12-1544 minFormer AdventistUnborn Baby Worships Jesus — Ephesians 2, Part 2 | 82Nikki and Colleen continue talking through chapter two of Ephesians. The unborn John the Baptist recognized that God was in the room. (Music: Falling Awake © 2010 Nathanael Tinker. Used by permission.)Support the showWebsite, donation link: http://proclamationmagazine.com/Facebook—Former Adventist: https://www.facebook.com/FormerAdventist/Facebook—Life Assurance Ministries: https://www.facebook.com/ProclamationMagazine/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FormerAdventist2020-12-0835 min