by Nick Peters | Dec 5, 2024 | Apologetics, Morality, Video games, Virtue, Worldview
Christians often struggle when it comes to pop culture. It seems like we tend to either be all-in or isolated entirely. We will produce Christian media, but usually, the only people reached by Christian media are…well…other Christians. The world just isn’t really...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Feb 15, 2024 | Apologetics, Church, Church leadership, Defend the Faith, False Teacher, Heresy
The position of Pastor (shepherd) is a calling, and for those who do it well, it is both “a blessing and cursing.” Ideally, they love the people they serve, but they are also, at times, exasperated by the people they love and serve. That is often the way in human...
by Doug Groothuis | Jun 9, 2022 | Apologetics, Deceiver, Deception, False Prophet, False Teacher, G.I. Gurdjieff, Mormon, Mormonism, New Age, Occult
When I learned that my church would be giving a preaching series in John’s First Epistle, I asked to preach on 1 John 4:1-6, which speaks of “testing the spirits” in light of the truth of Christ. These truths have been of enormous importance to me over many years of...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Jan 13, 2022 | Apologetics, Cults and Religions, Evangelism, Jehovah's Witnesses, Watchtower Bible and Tract Society
We have sometimes been told that witnessing to Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormons, and others in cult groups is “just a waste of time.” “They don’t listen.” To be sure, witnessing to people in cults can be quite frustrating. It can be draining. So why do we do it? That is...
by Jonathan Miles | Oct 21, 2021 | Apologetics, Enneagram, Guarding the flock, Prayer, Satan
You know how it is. There you are, sitting in a Bible study, watching a video of some middle-aged Christian celebrity pastor, probably with an earring and a tattoo, saying something that just doesn’t sit right with your discernment meter. You are the only one in the...
by Joy A Veinot | May 7, 2020 | Abortion, Apologetics, Global Warming, Globalism, Humanism, Humanist Manifest, Intolerance, MCOI Journal, Morality, Paganism, Parliament of the Worlds Religions, Perennialism, Planetary Humanism, Relativism, Social Justice, Social tyranny, Socialism, Tolerance, Winter 2000
(This originally appeared in the Winter 2000 edition of the MCOI Journal) By Sarah Flashing & Joy A. Veinot Many people faced the new Millennium with a sense of dread and apprehension. What would happen to the world in our new century? War? Famine? Economic...
