by Don and Joy Veinot | May 21, 2020 | Authoritarian, Beth McCord, Church leadership, Deception, Defend the Faith, Definitions, Eastern Mysticism, Enneagram, Gnostic, Guarding the flock, Heresy, Ian Morgan Cron, New Age, Occult, Paganism, Pastors, Suzanne Stabile
Very often when we read Scripture we do not enter emotionally into the story. As a result, we miss the very real human elements in exchanges like the one Paul had with the Ephesian elders in Acts 20 as he gave them a charge which included: Therefore, be alert,...
by Don Veinot | Jul 23, 2017 | Authoritarian, Bill Gothard / IBLP, Fall 2004, Guarding the flock, Jehovah's Witnesses, MCOI Journal, Pastors, Shepherds, Volume 10
(Originally printed in the Fall 2004 Issue of the MCOI Journal ) Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking thought can add...
by Guest Writer | Aug 14, 2016 | Authoritarian, Baptism, Boston Church of Christ, Cults and Religions, Discipleship, Hermeneutics, International Churches of Christ, Legalism, MCOI Journal, Summer 2004, Volume 10
(Originally printed in the Winter 2004 Issue of the MCOI Journal beginning on page 8 ) Introduction The International Churches of Christ, popularly known as the Boston Movement, has been one of America’s fastest growing religious groups for two decades. Leader...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Aug 11, 2016 | Authoritarian, Culture and Society, Discernment, Fear, Frank Kafka, Liberal Left, Liberal Theology, Marxism, Political Correctness
Why do you believe what you believe? Why do you behave the way you behave? Peer pressure has a dramatic impact on social conformity. Human beings are quite susceptible to “group behavior,” and have an almost overwhelming desire to imitate the group they are a part of...
by Jonathan Miles | Mar 18, 2016 | Authoritarian, Christian living, Culture and Society, Politics
Russell Moore, President of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, said in a Washington Post op-ed recently: “The word “evangelical” has become almost meaningless this year, and in many ways the word itself is at the...
by Guest Writer | Mar 15, 2016 | Authoritarian, Ezzo, False Teacher, Growing Families International, Growing Kids God's Way, Legalism, MCOI Journal, Spring/Summer 2002, Volume 8
(This originally appeared in the Spring/Summer 2002 edition of the MCOI Journal beginning page 8) In Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll’s sequel to Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland, Alice meets Humpty Dumpty and begins a rather frustrating conversation with him...
