by Don and Joy Veinot | Nov 22, 2018 | Atheism, Friends, Prayer, Prayer warrior, Thanksgiving, Worship
My late mother had a tradition on Thanksgiving Day of greeting us with a hearty “Happy Bird Day!” Unlike Joy, I didn’t grow up in a Christian home. My father was an atheist and my mother was a religious eclectic who bought into a variety of New Age beliefs before they...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Sep 27, 2018 | Atheism, Contemplative Prayer, Gospel, Jesus the Messiah, Redemption, Salvation, Sin
On the way back from speaking at Wheatland Congregational Church in Wheatland, Michigan, the 1969 Norman Greenbaum song, “Spirit in the Sky,” kept popping into my head. As it happens, my friend Fred Slagle (who is the pastor of Wheatland) and I have similar...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Aug 30, 2018 | Atheism, Atheist, context, Death, Definitions, Gospel, New Atheists, Redemption, Salvation, Sin
“Honest questions deserve honest answers, but dishonest questions don’t deserve any answers” is a bit of advice passed on to us by our friend and co-founder of Jews for Jesus, the late Jahn Moskowitz. It came at the end of a story he was relaying about a conversation...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Aug 16, 2018 | Atheism, Bible reliable, Church History, Church Invasion, Deity of Christ, False Teacher, Gwen Shamblin, Heresy, Jehovah, Jehovah's Witnesses, Satan, Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, Weigh Down Workshop
Out of concern that the First Century believers were susceptible to deception, the Apostle Peter warned in chapter 3 of his second epistle to be careful of those who distort Scripture “…to their own destruction.” The ones Peter warns about here seem to be a different...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Jan 25, 2018 | Atheism, Creation vs Evolution, Creationsim, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Robert Jastrow
Genesis 1 and 2 give an overview of the creation of all things. The Gospel of John (John 1:1-3) points back to Genesis 1 and ascribes the creation to “the Word” – the Son of God – Who is by nature God. John 1:3 states that if the Word did not create any...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Nov 16, 2017 | Atheism, Atheist, Bart Ehrman, Darwinism, Zeitgeist: The Movie
Is atheism based upon faith or fact? How does one arrive at belief in unbelief? There is probably no one answer to these questions. In his book Ends and Means, Aldous Huxley, known as “Darwin’s Bulldog,” was clear that his atheism was not based on faith, facts, or...
On issues of doctrine, that have been put forward in the public eye: I have experienced(in my active heart and…
Spot on Don. If it looks like a dog, barks like a dog, smells like a dog and behaves like…
It is my understanding that none of the Chosen was written by Mormons. It's true that Jenkins consults with a…
Well this has aged well. Don Veinot - "We talk about it in our article, “The Chosen Dilemma” and Dallas…
'For You have forsaken Your people, the house of Jacob, Because they are filled with eastern ways..." Isaish 2 reminds…