by Don and Joy Veinot | Aug 20, 2020 | Beth McCord, Deception, Eastern Mysticism, Enneagram, kabbalah, mysticism, New Age, Occult, Occultism, Paganism, Panentheism, Pastors, Psychic, Psychology
There is no doubt that the Enneagram is taking much of the Christian church by storm. There are currently over 15 titles being sold by “Christian” publishers with more on the way, selling in the hundreds of thousands of copies. It is being used as a 9-week sermon...
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 | May 14, 2020 | Christmas, Contemplative Prayer, Deception, Eastern Mysticism, Enneagram, Homeschool, New Age, Occult, Paganism, Panentheism, Psychic
In the late 19th Century there was concern over “inroads of secularization in higher education and as a base for the education of lay workers and full-time Bible teachers, evangelists, and pastors.”1“Bible college” The main concern for parents then was how they could...
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 | Mar 14, 2019 | Angels, Astrology, Christian Science, Clairvoyance, Demons, Eastern Mysticism, Heaven's Gate, Hinduism, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormon, New Age, Paganism, Watchtower Bible and Tract Society
We find angelic communications to humans quite a number of places in Scripture. An angel appeared to Zechariah with the news that he and his wife Elizabeth would have a son (Luke 1:13). Mary, a young Jewish virgin, who was engaged to be married, had a similar...
by Jonathan Miles | May 2, 2018 | Avengers: Infinity War, Eastern Mysticism, Empire Strikes Back, Redemption
Spoiler Warning: This post contains the most minor of spoilers for Avengers: Infinity War and one whopper of a spoiler for the Empire Strikes Back. Some of you are old enough to remember seeing Empire Strikes Back at the theatre. That movie is of course the best of...
