by Joy A Veinot | Nov 10, 2015 | Cults and Religions, False Prophecy, Jehovah's Witnesses, MCOI Journal, Summer 1999
I like to read the WATCHTOWER* Why? Maybe I’m a glutton for punishment, but I think it’s more because I like to keep up with the latest spin out of Brooklyn. The members of the Governing Body of Jehovah’s Witnesses are masters of spin-so good, in...
by Jonathan Miles | Oct 15, 2015 | Atonement, Baptism, Christ and the Church, Jehovah's Witnesses, Worship
My church does does a few weird things that I’ve come to love. The first is that we have communion every Sunday. I know, I know. For some of you that’s not weird at all. But before I moved above the Mason-Dixon line, we were lucky to do it once a quarter....
by Don and Joy Veinot | Oct 8, 2015 | Cults and Religions, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormonism, Salvation, Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, Word Faith
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwbc9c4aJLY] The term “Gospel” simply means “good news.” But most often when we hear or read the term “gospel,” the word has great religious significance. I have been working on updating older Journals from pdf to individual...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Sep 24, 2015 | Brian McLaren, Cults and Religions, Emerging Church, Hinduism, Islam, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jesus Seminar, John Dominic Crossan, Mormonism, Politics
Over the years we have observed a wide variety of groups who outright reject the Jesus of Scripture but somehow feel the need to attach His name to their group or cause in order to give them an air of legitimacy. It happens with world religions, cults, social causes...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Aug 29, 2015 | Evangelism, Jehovah's Witnesses, MCOI Journal, Mormonism, New Age, Winter 1999
(This originally appeared in the Winter 1999 edition of the MCOI Journal) When we think of missionaries, we tend to think in terms of PLACE. Missionaries go places, like foreign lands, don’t they? We call them mission fields. They exist in exotic faraway places like...
by Joy A Veinot | Jul 13, 2015 | Cults and Religions, Jehovah's Witnesses, July/August 1998, MCOI Journal, War
(This originally appeared in the March/April 1998 edition of the MCOI Journal) The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society1The “clergy” (or government) of the Jehovah’s Witnesses. (WTBTS) has set itself up as the “Grand Inquisitor” of the Christian churches which it lumps...
