by Joy Veinot | Dec 21, 2023 | Good News, Grace, Incarnation, MCOI Journal, November/December 1996, Salvation
(Originally printed “The Gift” In the November/December 1996 MCOI Journal) What is it about Christmas that draws us every year to celebrations of this holiday? What is so special about Christmas? Christmas is a special time because of the happiness it...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Dec 15, 2022 | Bible Prophecy, Christmas, Good News, Gospel, Incarnation, Redemption, Sacrifice, Salvation
For I’ve grown a little leaner, Grown a little colder, Grown a little sadder, Grown a little older, And I need a little angel, Sitting on my shoulder, Need a little Christmas now1“We Need a Little Christmas” – From Jerry Herman’s 1966 Broadway...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Sep 15, 2022 | Cancel Culture, Good News, Good Works, Holy Living, Homosexuality, Immorality, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormon, Muslim, Repentance, Sanctification
Few would deny that we live in an acrimonious time. Not many years ago, the general consensus in this country concerning speech was, “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it” (a statement Wrongly attributed to Voltaire)....
by Don and Joy Veinot | Mar 24, 2022 | Evangelism, Good News, Invest, Jehovah's Witnesses, Racism, Redemption, Sacrifice, Salvation, Schindler
Often people will contact us looking for what we call “the silver bullet verse” to convince a JW (or other cultists) relative or friend that they have it wrong on doctrine, hoping to persuade them to leave the organization when they realize they have been deceived. We...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Dec 23, 2021 | Christian living, Christmas, Good News, Good Works, Grace, Morality Tale, Sacrifice, Salvation
What’s Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books and having every item in ’em through a round dozen of months presented dead against you? If I...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Feb 20, 2020 | Good News, Gospel, Grief, Prayer, Salvation, Sin, Soul
In the classic Christmas movie, “It’s a Wonderful Life”, George Bailey, not a religious man, becomes desperate enough with his life circumstance to pray for God’s help. Immediately following the prayer, an angry man comes over and punches him hard in the jaw. As he...