by Don and Joy Veinot | Apr 20, 2023 | Beatrice Chestnut, Beth McCord, Bill Gothard / IBLP, Christopher Heuertz, Church leadership, Claudio Naranjo, Discernment, Eastern Mysticism, Enneagram, False Teacher, Gwen Shamblin, Helen Palmer, Heresy, Occult, Oscar Ichazo, Paganism, Panentheism, Pastors, Perennialism, Richard Rohr, Russ Hudson, Russell Moore, Spiritual AIDS, Suzanne Stabile, Weigh Down Workshop
Pastors and elders have difficult jobs. Biblically, they have two primary tasks. We find one in Acts 20. It is the shepherd’s role of protector: Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the...
by Don and Joy Veinot | May 21, 2020 | Authoritarian, Beth McCord, Church leadership, Deception, Defend the Faith, Definitions, Eastern Mysticism, Enneagram, Gnostic, Guarding the flock, Heresy, Ian Morgan Cron, New Age, Occult, Paganism, Pastors, Suzanne Stabile
Very often when we read Scripture we do not enter emotionally into the story. As a result, we miss the very real human elements in exchanges like the one Paul had with the Ephesian elders in Acts 20 as he gave them a charge which included: Therefore, be alert,...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Aug 8, 2019 | Centering Prayer, Church leadership, Contemplative Prayer, Eastern Mysticism, Evangelical Left, False Teacher, Gwen Shamblin, Hinduism, mysticism, Perennialism
After I spoke at a church this past weekend, I was asked, “How is it that so many celebrity preachers, celebrity Christian authors, and celebrity pastors take the stage with known (and popular) false teachers?” There are, of course, many possible reasons. It could be...
by Guest Writer | Feb 19, 2018 | Bible study, Bill Hybels, Church leadership, False Prophet, False Teacher, MCOI Journal, Pastors, Rick Warren, Summer 2005, Volume 11
(Originally printed in the Summer 2005 Issue of the MCOI Journal Beginning on page 14) An evil is in the professed camp of the Lord, so gross in its impudence, that the most shortsighted can hardly fail to notice it. During the past few years it has developed at an...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Sep 14, 2017 | Christian Life, Church Growth Movement, Church Invasion, Church leadership, Contemplative Prayer, Deception, Eastern Mysticism, Enneagram, False Teacher, Gnostic, Heresy, mysticism, Occult
Writing to the Colossians in the First Century, the Apostle Paul warned about certain spiritual disciplines that had “the appearance of wisdom” (Colossians. 2:23) but, in fact, conflicted with sound biblical teaching and were very harmful to the Christian life. False...
by Jonathan Miles | Jul 19, 2017 | Bible study, Christian Life, Christianity Today, Church History, Church leadership, Evangelism, Pornography, Salvation, Scripture
Sometimes when someone makes such an outlandish, obviously inflammatory statement you have to step back and look at what’s really going on. Take this headline from Churchleaders: “The Ridiculous Emphasis Christians Place on the Bible” I’m mean...
Fight the good fight MCO!! This article thoroughly exposes the dark and deceptive new age origins of the Enneagram, its…
Don and Joy, Well written and a view of “evangelicalism” growing in many sectors today. They throw “white supremacy” and…
Hello, Deborah, thank you so much for reading this and for your comment. Yes, this has been seeping into the…
I’ve just come across your articles and am very thankful for your clear exposé on the problem with contemplative prayer…
Greetings, I appreciate your zeal. Even so, there is a difference between attempting to answer the question of how god…