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 and Joy Veinot | Jun 27, 2024 | Bible, Contemplative Prayer, Enneagram, Idols, Immorality, NAR, New Apostolic Reformation
All of us have heard claims about things the “Bible says” that we do not find in the Bible. Some of these claims are just plain false, while others are likewise untrue but have the advantage of being humorous. The character of Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof was...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Jun 6, 2024 | Agnostic, Atheism, Bible, Bible reliable, Bill Gothard / IBLP, Contradictions, deconstruction, Divided Families, Liberal Left, Progressives
In the late 1990s, I was asked by a professor at a local community college to teach a class on Christianity in their Religion 101 course. I agreed and spent nearly an hour explaining the reliability of the Bible, the claims and some of the evidences regarding Jesus,...
by Don and Joy Veinot | May 9, 2024 | Antisemitism, Atheism, Bible, Born Again, Christ, Church, Church History, context, Jewish, Jews, Judaism, Liberal Left, Progressives
Some have been shocked at what seems like a sudden explosion of anti-Semitism on university campuses. It is shocking, but perhaps we should not be all that astonished. Why should we be so surprised? William F. Buckley Jr. raised the alert in his 1951 book, God and Man...
by Ron Henzel | May 2, 2024 | Bible, Hermeneutics, Inerrancy, Jesus
About 20 years ago, I was on a phone call with a man that seemed to be going fairly well until I made the “mistake” of referring to the Bible as the word of God. “Oh no, brother. The Bible is not the word of God. Only Jesus is the Word of God!” This naturally led us...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Apr 18, 2024 | Bible, Education, Evangelical Left, Homosexuality, LGBTQA+, Liberal Left, Morality, Progressives, Roman Catholic, Sola Scriptura
During the sixteenth-century battle between the reformers and the Roman Catholic church, the reformers developed the Five Solas which demonstrated their core beliefs in contrast to the Catholic Church from whom they were separating. The first of the five was Sola...