by Don and Joy Veinot | Nov 26, 2020 | Friends, Prayer, Redemption, Thanksgiving
Life is complicated, wouldn’t you say? Many important and/or urgent issues vie for our attention on a daily basis. As human beings, we attempt triage, tackling the most vital issues first so the “patient” does not expire. Unfortunately, giving daily thanks to God for...
by Don and Joy Veinot | May 16, 2019 | Divided Families, Faithful and Discreet Slave, False Teacher, Friends, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormon, Mormonism, Muslim, Spiritual Abuse
When someone leaves a cult or spiritually abusive religious group, it often means they will be abandoned by everyone who was their friend when they were inside the group. This practice is called shunning, and cult members take very seriously their spiritual “duty” to...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Nov 22, 2018 | Atheism, Friends, Prayer, Prayer warrior, Thanksgiving, Worship
My late mother had a tradition on Thanksgiving Day of greeting us with a hearty “Happy Bird Day!” Unlike Joy, I didn’t grow up in a Christian home. My father was an atheist and my mother was a religious eclectic who bought into a variety of New Age beliefs before they...
by Don and Joy Veinot | May 11, 2017 | Apologetics, Benny Hinn, Child Sacrifice, Creflo Dollar, False Memory Syndrome, False Teacher, Friends, Jehovah, Jehovah's Witnesses, Kenneth Copeland, Mike Warnke, New Age, Numerology, Occult, Paganism, Rodney Howard-Browne, Salvation, Satanic RItual Abuse, Satanism, T.D. Jakes, Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, Word Faith
Once a month, our good friend Penny comes and spends a night with us. There is nothing like time spent with a true friend to lift and strengthen the spirit. Penny has been our friend for 50 years this year, so we have a real shared history. Penny and her fiancé stood...
