by Don and Joy Veinot | Dec 30, 2021 | Angels, Christmas, Despair, Hero, Prayer warrior, Servanthood, Suicide
The Christmas film classic, “It’s a Wonderful Life,” starring James Stewart, Donna Reed, and a host of others, is, as most of us are aware, the story of a decent man who does not realize the tremendous impact his life has had for the good on those around him. Although...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Dec 23, 2021 | 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 you? If I...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Jul 9, 2020 | Christmas, Evangelical Left, Forgiveness, Holiness, Hypocrites, Identity Politics, Morality, Redemption, Sin, Social Justice, Social tyranny
At some point in December, the popular film “A Christmas Story” is always aired. Set in 1947 Indiana at Christmastime, we find we can easily identify with that earlier time and culture, as do many people our age. Ralphie was a typical boy with simple dreams, and his...
by Don and Joy Veinot | May 14, 2020 | Christmas, Contemplative Prayer, Deception, Eastern Mysticism, Enneagram, Homeschool, New Age, Occult, Paganism, Panentheism, Psychic
In the late 19th Century there was concern over “inroads of secularization in higher education and as a base for the education of lay workers and full-time Bible teachers, evangelists, and pastors.”1“Bible college” The main concern for parents then was how they could...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Dec 12, 2019 | Christmas, Incarnation, Islam, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jesus, Present
When you think of the word “present,” what comes to mind? As you might have guessed, around here we love words. It is our primary medium of communication. We love playing with words and enjoyed comedians of yore like Abbott and Costello and their use of word play with...
by Jonathan Miles | Dec 27, 2018 | Bible Prophecy, Christmas, Good News, Holy Night, Incarnation
As I write this, my children have been shoe’d up stairs for the umpteenth time. All the presents are wrapped and house is silent, at least for a few hours until one of my sleepy eye’d progeny asks what time is it somewhere around O-Dark-Thirty. Needless to say,...
