by Don and Joy Veinot | Aug 8, 2024 | Bible, Bible study, Kenya, Pastors
Years ago, we attended a Willow Creek-type church for a while. We had been hurt by a church split and needed a place to attend while we sorted out what exactly had happened and where to go from there. It was a “seeker-sensitive” church, and following the lead of...
by Don Veinot | Jul 25, 2024 | AIDS, Bible study, Biblical Ethics, Church Invasion, Eastern Mysticism, Enneagram, False Prophet, False Teacher, Guarding the flock, Heresy, Heretics, Immorality, Liberal Left, Mindfulness, mysticism, Panentheism, Progressives, Spiritual AIDS, Virus
Nehemiah is one of my favorite Old Testament books, and while reading it this week, I came across a familiar favorite passage of mine. Though I am familiar with the passage, I was struck anew with its importance. Nehemiah had overseen the rebuilding of the Jerusalem...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Jul 11, 2024 | Bible study, Channeling, Christianity Today, Deacons, Elders, Enneagram, False Teacher, Gwen Shamblin, Heresy, Heretics, mysticism, Sola Scriptura, Spiritism
In August 2000, we began receiving phone calls and emails from people looking for information on a popular “Bible-based” weight loss program, Weigh Down Workshop, and its leader, Gwen Shamblin.1Gwen Shamblin died in a plane crash on March 29, 2021 Shamblin’s Weigh...
by Don and Joy Veinot | May 26, 2022 | Bible study, Deception, Discernment, Discipleship, Enneagram, False Prophecy, False Prophet, False Teacher, Guarding the flock, Heresy, Holiness, Homosexuality, Immorality, Kenneth Copeland, LGBTQA+, Word Faith
It is troubling to find so many Christians embracing false beliefs and teachings. But it is less surprising when we discover with George Barna’s most recent research that only “Only 37 Percent of U.S. Pastors Hold a Biblical Worldview.” That is astounding. Of course,...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Jun 28, 2018 | Bible, Bible study, Faithful and Discreet Slave, False Prophecy, False Prophet, False Teacher, Heresy, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jesus - Michael the Archangel, NAR, New Apostles and Prophets, New Apostolic Reformation, Resurrection, The Mirror BIble, The Passion Bible
Some years ago, Bob Anderson of Watchman Fellowship and Erich Grieshaber -former JW and now evangelist – did a short skit called “The Custom Bible Company” at one of the annual Witnesses Now for Jesus Conventions. Although it was a spur of the moment skit that...
by Guest Writer | Feb 19, 2018 | Bible study, Bill Hybels, Church leadership, False Prophet, False Teacher, MCOI Journal, Pastors, Rick Warren, Summer 2005, Volume 11
(Originally printed in the Summer 2005 Issue of the MCOI Journal Beginning on page 14) An evil is in the professed camp of the Lord, so gross in its impudence, that the most shortsighted can hardly fail to notice it. During the past few years it has developed at an...
