by Don and Joy Veinot | Aug 7, 2025 | context, Deception, Discernment, Guarding the flock, Immorality, Progressives, Racism, SBC, Self deceived, Southern Baptist Convention, White Fragility, Woke
If the Apostle John were to write his epistles today, perhaps 1 John 2:19 might read more like this: They progressed from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. Seems like a lot of people are progressing away from...
by Joy Veinot | Jul 31, 2025 | Buddhism, Conspiracy Theories, Counterfeit, Cults and Religions, False gods, False Teacher, Immorality, Jehovah's Witnesses, karma, MCOI Journal, Mormonism, Pantheism, Reincarnation, Relativism, Roman Catholic, Salvation, Scientology, September/October 1996
(Originally printed in the September/October 1996 Issue of the MCOI Journal) There is a cult system for everyone. There are more cults and cult-like organizations in our society today than I have space here to list. Each holds appeal for a different type of person,...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Jul 17, 2025 | Adultery, Bart Ehrman, Bible, Capital Punishment, Contradictions, False Prophecy, False Prophet, False Teacher, Hermeneutics, Immorality
We regularly receive phone calls, emails, or questions in person from folks seeking answers to apparent biblical contradictions. Sometimes the questioner needs to be able to respond to a skeptic. This issue of seeming Bible contradictions is a favorite of skeptics...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Jun 5, 2025 | Biblical Justice, Christ, Culture and Society, Homosexuality, Immorality, Jesus, Jesus as King, LGBTQA+, Liberal Left, Liberalism, Progressives, Transgender, Woke
The question of what God is like is not really a new one. Is He cruel or is He kind? Is He distant or intimately involved in our lives? When we were new believers, we read a book that we found quite helpful on this topic, Your God Is Too Small by J.B. Phillips. In...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Feb 13, 2025 | #Blacklivesmatter, #BLM, Atheism, Atheist, Evangelical, Good Works, Gospel, Homosexuality, Immorality, Intolerance, Jesus, Jesus Resurrection, Liberal Theology, Liberalism, Odu Ifa, Panentheism, Resurrection, Richard Dawkins, Salvation, Spiritual arrogance, Theology, Tolerance, Yoruba
Our culture has long been wrestling over the idea of separation of church and state, but few seem to recognize the existence of what Carl Teichrib terms “Spiritual Politics” in chapter 12 of his book, Game of Gods. Spiritual Politics is often on public display in the...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Jan 30, 2025 | Adultery, Climate Change, Cults and Religions, Deceiver, Deception, Evangelical Left, Gaia, Gender, Gender identity, Global Cooling, Globalism, Identity Politics, Immorality, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jesus - Michael the Archangel, Liberalism, Nature Religion, New Age, Paganism, Post Christian, Progressives, Social Justice
The 2002 musical film, Chicago, set in the 1920s, demonstrates the ease with which the public can be deceived – especially if you know how to manipulate the press into selling your narrative. The basic story line is that of a married woman, Roxie Hart (played by Renée...
