by Don and Joy Veinot | May 26, 2022 | Bible study, Deception, Discernment, Discipleship, Enneagram, False Prophecy, False Prophet, False Teacher, Guarding the flock, Heresy, Holiness, Homosexuality, Immorality, Kenneth Copeland, LGBTQA+, Word Faith
It is troubling to find so many Christians embracing false beliefs and teachings. But it is less surprising when we discover with George Barna’s most recent research that only “Only 37 Percent of U.S. Pastors Hold a Biblical Worldview.” That is astounding. Of course,...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Mar 25, 2021 | Discernment, Discipleship, Forgiveness, Gospel, Grace, Servanthood
Our friend and brother Poray Casimer’s funeral was this past Friday. Haille Martin gave the eulogy, which he titled, “Somebody is Watching.” It was very heartwarming and certainly, the idea that “Somebody is Watching” our lives have important implications for living...
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 and Joy Veinot | Jul 11, 2019 | Apologetics, Defend the Faith, Deity of Christ, Discipleship, Inerrancy, Jesus Resurrection, Norman Geisler, Reliability of the Bible, Worldview
Last Monday, July 1, 2019, my friend, Dr. Norman L. Geisler, went to be with the Lord. That day, another friend, Dr. Bill Roach, posted his tribute, “I am put here for the defense of the gospel”—The Legacy of Dr. Norman L. Geisler, which was the first of many. Bill...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Jul 12, 2018 | Dianne Feinstein, Discipleship, Progressives, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholicism, Worldview
In the fall of 2017 Professor Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed to the United States Circuit Court. In the Senate confirmation hearings, Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein offered a rather Star Wars-esque comment concerning Barrett’s faith, saying, “The dogma lives...
by Guest Writer | Feb 11, 2018 | Apologetics, context, Discernment, Discipleship, Education, Heresy, MCOI Journal, Summer 2005, Volume 11
(Originally printed in the Summer 2005 Issue of the MCOI Journal Beginning on page 10) Half way through college, during the Christmas season of 1974, I first tasted the adventure of life in Jesus. It soon seemed to me that the most difficult resources to find were the...
