by Don and Joy Veinot | Nov 23, 2023 | Dayenu, Holiness, Holy Living, Jesus, Jesus the Messiah, Thanksgiving, Traditions
In many ways, our culture seems to have lost or is losing the common practice of extending public courtesies and thankfulness to others. Common courtesy is just sooooo old-fashioned. True thankfulness appears to have been replaced with a belief that we are owed...
by Joy A Veinot | Mar 31, 2021 | Incarnation, Jesus the Messiah, Redemption, Sacrifice, Salvation, Suffering
When we think in terms of the sacrifice made for us nearly 2,000 years ago, we naturally think in terms of the sacrifice made by the Son. Braveheart. He gave His life for you and me, and the enormity of that fact should never be obscured by the passage of time or by...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Jan 16, 2020 | Deity of Christ, Jehovah, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jesus, Jesus the Messiah, Redemption, Salvation, Trinity
If we began this post with the words, “Once upon a time…†and went on to tell the tale of two Jehovahs, most would assume it was just a story, perhaps a fairly-tale. In actuality, the story is true, it’s in the Bible, and the One telling it is...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Sep 27, 2018 | Atheism, Contemplative Prayer, Gospel, Jesus the Messiah, Redemption, Salvation, Sin
On the way back from speaking at Wheatland Congregational Church in Wheatland, Michigan, the 1969 Norman Greenbaum song, “Spirit in the Sky,” kept popping into my head. As it happens, my friend Fred Slagle (who is the pastor of Wheatland) and I have similar...
by Jonathan Miles | Oct 20, 2016 | Christ and the Church, Christian Life, Christian living, Dominion Theology, Jesus as King, Jesus the Messiah, Problem of Evil
Most people don’t know that when our founding fathers were fighting over what kind of government we should have (during the last days of the Articles of Confederation or during the long hot summer of the Constitutional congress, accounts vary) that a few leaders...