by Don and Joy Veinot | Dec 24, 2020 | Christian living, Christmas, Good News, Good Works, Grace, Morality Tale, Sacrifice, Salvation
What’s Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books and having every item in ’em through a round dozen of months presented dead against...
by Don Veinot | Dec 26, 2019 | Christ and the Church, Christian living, Early Church Fathers, Pagan Celebrations, Redemption, Resurrection, Salvation
This week’s Crux, posts the day after most Christians celebrate the anniversary of the incarnation. With all of the festivities, family gatherings and ministry stuff I had considered taking the easy way out and either skip posting this week or repost The Gift, an...
by Jonathan Miles | Sep 26, 2019 | Books, Christian living, Persecution, Sacrifice, Salvation, Sanctification
Something always bugged me about Paul’s letter to the Romans. Growing up in the atmosphere of Evangelical churches, principally Baptist, I absorbed the accepted narrative of what was going on in Romans. Paul wrote a letter to the house churches in Rome. It is...
by Don Veinot | May 9, 2019 | Christian Life, Christian living, Prayer, Prayer warrior
When I was younger one of the main targets of comedians was their mothers-in-law. Down through the years I have poked fun at my own mother-in-law from time to time. Like most of us – OK, ALL of us – she could sometimes be a walking contradiction as she walked by...
by Jonathan Miles | May 2, 2019 | Christian Life, Christian living, Deacons, Deception, Uncategorized
Recently I sat down at lunch with a church leader. Stop me if you’ve heard this one. The elders (deacons for your Baptists) were having trouble agreeing on a vision for their church. The pastor was trying to lead them in one direction and some elder says in so...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Jan 17, 2019 | Benny Hinn, Christian living, Climate Change, Global Warming, Hyper-charismatic, Judaism, Kenneth Copeland, Word Faith
“When you’re rich, they think you really know!” is one of our favorite lines from one of our favorite songs from one of our favorite films, Fiddler on the Roof. It comes at the end of a stanza in “If I were a Rich Man,” a daydream that nearly everyone has had at...
