Former Adventist Fellowship on blip.tv is the video home of the Former Adventist Fellowship annual convention held at Redlands, California, each February. Join former and interested Adventists as they seek reality and truth.
Paul Carden is executive director of The Centers for Apologetics Research. He has devoted nearly 30 years of his life to cult-related research and outreach in Latin America, Africa, eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union, by God’s grace. In 1980, Paul joined the Christian Research Institute (CRI) under its founder, Walter Martin. For six of his fifteen years at CRI Paul served as a missionary in São Paulo, Brazil, and for six years he co-hosted the live, nationwide “Bible Answer Man” radi...
Pastor Bubar is a 1978 graduate of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Both Phil and his wife Lisa graduated from Wheaton College with their undergraduate degrees. Pastor Phil was the first pastor of Christ Evangelical Free Church in eastern Pennsylvania, serving there for seventeen years. They arrived in St. Joseph in 1995 to begin ministry here at the Chapel. He and Lisa have two children. Dan is a 2001 graduate of Taylor University in Upland, Indiana and a 2004 graduate of Notre Dame Law S...
Carolyn Macomber is a doctoral student at Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan. Prior to enrolling at Andrews she worked as a youth director and as an assistant pastor within the Adventist system. During 2008 she accepted Jesus as her Savior, and then in 2009 she removed her membership from the Adventist organization. She subsequently was fired from her position as a staff member at Andrews University. She is now a member of The Chapel in St. Joseph and is co-founder and leader of t...
Dale Ratzlaff founded Life Assurance Ministries, Inc., which publishes Proclamation! magazine, in 2000. He was a fourth-generation Seventh-day Adventist and pastored in the denomination for 13 years, seven of which he spent as a Bible teacher at Monterey Bay Academy, La Selva Beach, California.Near the end of his doctoral program at Adventism's Andrews University in the 1980’s, Dale did an in-depth study of the denomination's doctrine of the investigative judgment and the cleansing of the heav...
J. Mark Martin is the Senior Pastor of Calvary Community Church, a grace oriented fellowship of over 12,000 believers located in Phoenix, Arizona. Pastor Mark grew up in Medford, Oregon, and later attended college in Northern California at Adventism's Pacific Union College where he graduated with a B.A. in theology. While attending college, he met his wife to be, Leslie, and they now have three children. Pastor Mark has been teaching God's grace for over 25 years. Pastor Mark was raised a Seve...
J. Mark Martin is the Senior Pastor of Calvary Community Church, a grace oriented fellowship of over 12,000 believers located in Phoenix, Arizona. Pastor Mark grew up in Medford, Oregon, and later attended college in Northern California at Adventism's Pacific Union College where he graduated with a B.A. in theology. While attending college, he met his wife to be, Leslie, and they now have three children. Pastor Mark has been teaching God's grace for over 25 years. Pastor Mark was raised a Seve...
J. Mark Martin is the Senior Pastor of Calvary Community Church, a grace oriented fellowship of over 12,000 believers located in Phoenix, Arizona. Pastor Mark grew up in Medford, Oregon, and later attended college in Northern California at Adventism's Pacific Union College where he graduated with a B.A. in theology. While attending college, he met his wife to be, Leslie, and they now have three children. Pastor Mark has been teaching God's grace for over 25 years. Pastor Mark was raised a Seve...
This is the Q and A session that followed the talk by Mark Martin "The Line in the Sand: The Gospel and Adventism" that was presented at the annual Former Adventist Fellowship conference on February 12, 2010 at Redlands, California.
Jon Rittenhouse is an adjunct professor at Biola University and teaches in the Biblical Studies department on the topic of Christian Apologetics and Theology. He has an undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from Michigan Technological University. He also holds four graduate degrees. He has a MA Ministry from Moody Graduate School in Chicago. He received his MA Theological Studies (MATS) and his M Div degrees from the International School of Theology in San Bernardino, California. He als...
Jon Rittenhouse is an adjunct professor at Biola University and teaches in the Biblical Studies department on the topic of Christian Apologetics and Theology. He has an undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from Michigan Technological University. He also holds four graduate degrees. He has a MA Ministry from Moody Graduate School in Chicago. He received his MA Theological Studies (MATS) and his M Div degrees from the International School of Theology in San Bernardino, California. He als...