by Don and Joy Veinot | Jan 5, 2017 | Christian living, Cults and Religions, Culture and Society, New Year, Pagan Celebrations, Paganism
It’s that time of year when many make resolutions which they will abandon within weeks, perhaps even days or hours. The spirit may be willing, but the flesh, as we all know, is weak. When and where did this tradition of making New Year’s resolutions originate? Does it...
by Jonathan Miles | Oct 20, 2016 | Christ and the Church, Christian Life, Christian living, Dominion Theology, Jesus as King, Jesus the Messiah, Problem of Evil
Most people don’t know that when our founding fathers were fighting over what kind of government we should have (during the last days of the Articles of Confederation or during the long hot summer of the Constitutional congress, accounts vary) that a few leaders...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Oct 5, 2016 | Abortion, Ambassador, Christian living, Darwinism, Homosexuality, Infanticide, Liberal Left, MCOI Journal, NARAL, Pedophilia, Political Correctness, Politics, Progressives, Tolerance, Volume 11, Winter 2005
(Originally printed in the Winter 2005 Issue of the MCOI Journal) The morning of November 3, 2004, which dawned darkly upon liberals, offered a ray of hope to conservatives. George W. Bush was re-elected as the President of the United States. With his re-election a...
by Jonathan Miles | Jul 21, 2016 | Christian Life, Christian living, context, Culture and Society, Hermeneutics
Those of us who have gone to seminary will tell you there nothing like graduating from seminary to ruin your church going experience. This goes double for taking classes in biblical interpretation. Having had the mantra “context, context, context” drilled...
by Don and Joy Veinot | May 19, 2016 | Aliens, Ambassador, Christian living, Evangelism, Strangers
Biblically speaking, Christians are strangers and foreigners in a strange and foreign land. We are to be ambassadors for Christ for our time on Earth, though our true citizenship is already in heaven. As ambassadors, how should we interact with the lost in our...
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...
