by Joy Veinot | Apr 21, 2022 | Cults and Religions, Culture and Society, Enneagram, Grace, January/February 1996, Jehovah's Witnesses, M Scott Peck, MCOI Journal, Paganism, Psychology, Salvation
In Ecclesiastes 1:9-11, Solomon wrote: What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun. Is there a thing of which it is said, “See, this is new”? It has been already in the ages before us. There is no...
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 Joy Veinot | Dec 20, 2021 | 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 | Aug 19, 2021 | Gospel, Grace, N.T. Wright, Redemption, Sacrifice, Salvation
We originally posted this on August 3, 2017, as a follow-up to a blog which MCOI Senior Researcher Ron Henzel had posted a week earlier. His blog, “N.T. Wright’s Long Farewell,” drew comments which seemed to indicate that some believed salvation can only be achieved...
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 | Jun 4, 2020 | Bible, Evil, Fear, Forgiveness, Good Works, Gospel, Grace, Salvation
When talking with unbelievers, non-Christians, atheists, etc., the question underlying their objection to the faith is almost never, “Why do good things happen to bad people?” Usually their question is more along the lines of “Why is there evil?” “Why is there rape?”...
