by Don and Joy Veinot | Dec 22, 2022 | Christmas, Church History, Faith tested, Grief, Incarnation
“I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet the words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men!” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Christmas Bells) The poem “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day” was composed...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Feb 11, 2021 | Church History, Depression, Discipleship, Economy, History, Holiness, Persecution, Sin
Joy once asked her mother’s mother, Grandma Price, how in the world she had raised 6 children, one not yet four years old, in a converted garage in Chicago during the Great Depression? Her husband had died in 1934, leaving her to manage all on her own. Even as we type...
by Don Veinot | Mar 12, 2020 | Bart Ehrman, Church History, Deity of Christ, Fall 2010, Jesus Resurrection, Jesus Seminar, MCOI Journal, Reliability of the Bible, Resurrection
(Originally printed in the Fall 2010 Issue of the MCOI Journal) Watching a court jury trial and watching a debate have a number of similarities. In both cases, you have one set of evidence, but you have two opposing sides that attempt to explain the evidence in such a...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Sep 12, 2019 | Bible reliable, Church Councils, Church History, Conspiracy Theories, Creeds, Confessions, and Catechisms, Deception, Discernment, Reincarnation
Several of us recently spent a day at a New Age Fair in Ohio talking with various exhibitors. Again, as was true at the last New Age fair we recently attended, in nearly every conversation the claim was made that reincarnation was in the Bible but was taken out by...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Aug 22, 2019 | Bible, Bible reliable, Christian Science, Church History, Definitions, Deity of Christ, Gospel, Idols, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormon, Reincarnation
Jehovah’s Witnesses, Christian Scientists, Mormons, some New Agers and other non-Christian groups would cheerfully say, “Jesus is Lord” if they are put on the spot to do so. This becomes puzzling to some in light of Paul’s words to the church in Corinth. He wrote:...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Aug 16, 2018 | Atheism, Bible reliable, Church History, Church Invasion, Deity of Christ, False Teacher, Gwen Shamblin, Heresy, Jehovah, Jehovah's Witnesses, Satan, Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, Weigh Down Workshop
Out of concern that the First Century believers were susceptible to deception, the Apostle Peter warned in chapter 3 of his second epistle to be careful of those who distort Scripture “…to their own destruction.” The ones Peter warns about here seem to be a different...
Yes, as you say, Wayne Grudem is indeed a Calvinist. And, I’ve made no secret of the fact that, at…
We talk about it in our article, "The Chosen Dilemma" and Dallas Jenkins pointing that our in his interview "A…
Thanks for your response! Yes, I was mistakenly ascribing Keathley's article to Macgregor, who wrote an excellent book on Molinism,…
When and where did he say he made up 95% of the show?
As I mentioned in my original article, I consider Dr. Wasserman to be the foremost authority on the Book of…