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 Don and Joy Veinot | Jun 27, 2019 | Brian McLaren, Church Growth Movement, Contemplative Prayer, Culture Driven Church, Deity of Christ, Evangelical Left, Homosexuality, Hyper-charismatic, Jesus Seminar, Kenneth Copeland, Liberal Left, Liberalism, New Apostles and Prophets, Progressives, Word Faith
Could it be that many who like to claim Christianity as their faith can only do so by minimizing God? In Christianity& Liberalism by J. Gresham Machen, Machen spends a fair amount of time addressing how liberal theologians in his day, who were “in search of the...
by Guest Writer | May 18, 2019 | Aldous Huxley, Buddhism, Contemplative Prayer, Hinduism, Roman Catholic, Thomas Merton
(Originally printed in the Fall 2006 Issue of the MCOI Journal page 8) Twenty-some years ago, my sister Janet and I signed up for a field trip sponsored by the Crystal Cathedral to a Vedanta monastery in the nearby Saddleback Mountains. At that time, we were working...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Sep 27, 2018 | Atheism, Contemplative Prayer, Gospel, Jesus the Messiah, Redemption, Salvation, Sin
On the way back from speaking at Wheatland Congregational Church in Wheatland, Michigan, the 1969 Norman Greenbaum song, “Spirit in the Sky,” kept popping into my head. As it happens, my friend Fred Slagle (who is the pastor of Wheatland) and I have similar...
by Guest Writer | Jan 14, 2018 | Astrology, Centering Prayer, Contemplative Prayer, MCOI Journal, New Age, New Apostles and Prophets, Occult, Paganism, Sorcery, Spiritism, Summer 2005, Superstition, Volume 11
(Originally printed in the Summer 2005 Issue of the MCOI Journal Beginning on page 6) Part 2 in a 2-Part Look at Occultic-like Beliefs and Practices in the Church By John Ferrer Introduction In the last Journal article “Occultism in the Church” (Part-1),1Since the...
by Guest Writer | Dec 9, 2017 | Brennan Manning, Buddhism, Centering Prayer, Contemplative Prayer, Eastern Mysticism, MCOI Journal, Volume 11, Winter 2005
(Originally printed in the Winter 2005 Issue of the MCOI Journal beginning on page 10) “God’s first language is silence.”1Thomas Keating, Open Mind, Open Heart (Rockport, MA: Benedict’s Monastery, 1992), 57 “Progress in intimacy with God means progress toward...
