by Don and Joy Veinot | Jun 8, 2023 | Bill Gothard / IBLP, Evangelical Left, Legalism, Morality, Paganism, Salvation, Sexual Abuse, Sexual prosperity gospel
There is a cost, very often a high cost, exacted by false teachers in the lives of their followers. Lives can be crushed. Often people are badly damaged spiritually and almost always emotionally devastated by authoritarian leaders in whom they have put their faith....
by Don and Joy Veinot | Jun 1, 2023 | Ayahuasca, Beth McCord, Claudio Naranjo, Eastern Mysticism, Enneagram, Evagrius Ponticus, False Teacher, G.I. Gurdjieff, Helen Palmer, Idols, Occult, Occultism, Oscar Ichazo, Paganism, Panentheism, Perennialism, Ramon Llull, Richard Rohr, Russ Hudson, Suzanne Stabile, Tyler Zach
(Editor’s Note: This is not a short review.) Christians hold a general idea that the indwelling Holy Spirit will completely protect them from being deceived. This idea is taken from a portion of John 16:13: When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all...
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 the...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Mar 30, 2023 | Druids, Paganism, Parliament of the Worlds Religions, Satanism, Satanists, Shaman, Wicca
In August of 1993 Joy and I, along with a handful of other Evangelical apologists, attended the second Parliament of the World’s Religions. The first one had been held 100 years earlier in 1893. The 1993 event was well attended: with 8,000 people from all over the...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Mar 9, 2023 | Astrology, Enneagram, Occultism, Paganism, Pastors, Psychology, Richard Rohr, Tarot Cards
Personality type assessments originated in the 18th and 19th Centuries. They initially involved evaluating the bumps on the subject’s head (phrenology) or “based on a person’s outer appearances.”1“Personality test” These innovative methods of assessing character...
by Stephanie A Potts | Nov 17, 2022 | Avengers: Infinity War, Gnostic, Humanism, Immorality, Occult, Occultism, Paganism, Satanists
Should the philosophies behind the stories in Marvel and DC Comics and films be promoted by Christians? According to Good Fight Ministries1MCOI does not necessarily agree with or endorse all of the positions of this ministry in their documentary, “Marvel & DCs War...
