by Don and Joy Veinot | Apr 13, 2023 | Death, Despair, Grief, Hate, Hypocrites, Poverty, Salvation
Most, well really ALL of us — at some point believe life isn’t fair. The truth is life isn’t fair, and it hasn’t been fair nor unaccompanied by pain and loss since the Garden of Eden. Doesn’t it seem that some people have all the “luck?” Life appears to come...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Oct 15, 2020 | Agnostic, Atheism, Atheist, Creation vs Evolution, Darwinism, Death, Evolution, Global Warming
“Survey Says?” This two word question was at the heart of the popular 1976 game show, “Family Feud.” When the answer to the survey question was announced by the host, it told the audience and the contestants whether or not the contestant’s answers matched the...
by Jonathan Miles | Mar 26, 2020 | Death, Rodney Howard-Browne, Satan, Word Faith
Uncertainty is a crucible for revelation. My pastor said two things in his sermon two weeks ago when this virus was just looming on the horizon and we had no idea how bad or how mild it was going to be. There were people in my church who thought everyone was...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Apr 25, 2019 | Atheism, Atheist, Death, Devil, Gospel, Hell
As weird as it may seem, life’s ultimate questions are often posed in rock-and-roll lyrics. Consider, for example, the 1969 hit, “And When I Die,” by the band, Blood, Sweat and Tears. Like so many other poets, story-tellers, and just average human beings have...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Aug 30, 2018 | Atheism, Atheist, context, Death, Definitions, Gospel, New Atheists, Redemption, Salvation, Sin
“Honest questions deserve honest answers, but dishonest questions don’t deserve any answers” is a bit of advice passed on to us by our friend and co-founder of Jews for Jesus, the late Jahn Moskowitz. It came at the end of a story he was relaying about a conversation...
by Don and Joy Veinot | May 31, 2018 | Death, Evangelical Left, Fear, Good News, Gospel, New Age, Rob Bell, Salvation, Suffering, Theological liberalism
The old saying is “It’s all fun and games until someone gets hurt.” That is true when kids are rough housing and things go dangerously awry. But life can be that way too. Quite often, it seems, human beings go through life with little thought to what happens...
