by Don and Joy Veinot | May 7, 2026 | Benny Hinn, Bethel Church, Brennan Manning, Brian McLaren, Contemplative Prayer, Eastern Mysticism, Enneagram, Heretics, Hinduism, John Mark Comer, Kenneth Copeland, Mindfulness, NAR, New Age, New Apostles and Prophets, Richard Rohr, Ruth Haley Barton, Suzanne Stabile
In 1971, the Temptations recorded a rather long (more than 12-minutes) rendition of Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong’s song, “Smiling Faces Sometimes,” for Motown. The same year, Norman Whitfield produced a version of the song edited down to about 3:20, performed...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Mar 12, 2026 | Apologetics, Christ, Deity of Christ, Docetism, Ebionites, False Teacher, Heresy, Heretics, Incarnation, Jesus, Jesus Resurrection, Jesus the Messiah, Salvation
It is often surprising how few seem to know why the New Testament epistles, and we would say the Gospel of John as well, were written. In the main, with the exception of Philemon, they were written to expose false teachers, false teachings, and bad behavior – while...
by Don Veinot | Jul 25, 2024 | AIDS, Bible study, Biblical Ethics, Church Invasion, Eastern Mysticism, Enneagram, False Prophet, False Teacher, Guarding the flock, Heresy, Heretics, Immorality, Liberal Left, Mindfulness, mysticism, Panentheism, Progressives, Spiritual AIDS, Virus
Nehemiah is one of my favorite Old Testament books, and while reading it this week, I came across a familiar favorite passage of mine. Though I am familiar with the passage, I was struck anew with its importance. Nehemiah had overseen the rebuilding of the Jerusalem...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Jul 11, 2024 | Bible study, Channeling, Christianity Today, Deacons, Elders, Enneagram, False Teacher, Gwen Shamblin, Heresy, Heretics, mysticism, Sola Scriptura, Spiritism
In August 2000, we began receiving phone calls and emails from people looking for information on a popular “Bible-based” weight loss program, Weigh Down Workshop, and its leader, Gwen Shamblin.1Gwen Shamblin died in a plane crash on March 29, 2021 Shamblin’s Weigh...
by Ron Henzel | Oct 12, 2023 | Gender identity, Heresy, Heretics, micro-aggressions, Racism
In his 1978 speech, “How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later,” science fiction writer Philip K. Dick (who wrote the book that became the movie Blade Runner) wrote, “The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If...
