by Don and Joy Veinot | Apr 20, 2023 | Beatrice Chestnut, Beth McCord, Bill Gothard / IBLP, Christopher Heuertz, Church leadership, Claudio Naranjo, Discernment, Eastern Mysticism, Enneagram, False Teacher, Gwen Shamblin, Helen Palmer, Heresy, Occult, Oscar Ichazo, Paganism, Panentheism, Pastors, Perennialism, Richard Rohr, Russ Hudson, Russell Moore, Spiritual AIDS, Suzanne Stabile, Weigh Down Workshop
Pastors and elders have difficult jobs. Biblically, they have two primary tasks. We find one in Acts 20. It is the shepherd’s role of protector: Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Feb 16, 2023 | Angel of the Lord, Angels, Church Councils, Deity of Christ, Gwen Shamblin, Jehovah's Witnesses, Weigh Down Workshop
The Lifetime Network premiered their film, “Gwen Shamblin: Starving for Salvation,†on February 4, 2023. It was more a docu-drama than a documentary and was generally based on Gwen Shamblin’s life from the time she started the Weigh Down Workshop until her...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Jan 12, 2023 | Counterfeit, Definitions, Deity of Christ, False Prophet, False Teacher, Gwen Shamblin, Heresy, Legalism, Rick Warren, Salvation, Tantra
As most of our readers know, MCOI is a mission to cults and non-Christian religions. In the early days we never envisioned having to research, write and warn believers about false and/or harmful teaching gaining ground within the church. Early on, however, we began...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Oct 7, 2021 | Church Invasion, Counterfeit, Deity of Christ, False Prophet, False Teacher, Guarding the flock, Gwen Shamblin, Salvation, Trinity, Weigh Down Workshop
The people who have less trouble with the deceitful lies that keep you overeating are the people who watched Weigh Down’s Orientation Video and decided from the start that I was a leader from God, so they submitted themselves freely to the teachings on the...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Jun 10, 2021 | Counterfeit, Deity of Christ, Divided Families, False Teacher, Gwen Shamblin, Remnant Fellowship, Trinity, Weigh Down Workshop
On Saturday afternoon, May 29, we began receiving emails and phone calls asking if we had heard that Gwen Shamblin Lara, her new husband, Joe (William J.) Lara, and five other leaders of Gwen’s church, Remnant Fellowship – Jennifer J. Martin, David L. Martin,...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Feb 18, 2021 | Authoritarian, Gwen Shamblin, Heresy, Remnant Fellowship, Social tyranny
“Avoid Independent Thinkingâ€1The WATCHTOWER, January 15, 1983, p22 is a section heading in the 1983 Watchtower magazine article, “Exposing the Devil’s Subtle Design’s.†The WATCHTOWER is one of the bi-weekly publications of the Watchtower Bible and Tract...
