by Don Veinot | Aug 5, 2020 | Politics, Prayer
One of our prayer partners is Joy’s cousin, retired pastor Keith Heyn. We appreciate he and his wife Margaret. They, like so many of us, are concerned about our current national distresses and a few days ago Keith sent a proposal which I would like to ask you to...
by Jonathan Miles | Jul 30, 2020 | bigotry, Christ, Christian Life, Culture War, Politics, Sin, Slavery, Social Justice
“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Jul 23, 2020 | bigotry, Lawlessness, Politics, Prayer, Prayer warrior, Racism, Salvation
In one of our all-time favorite films, Fiddler on the Roof, the Jewish citizens of the fictional Russian shtetl of Anatevka ask the rabbi if there is a prayer for the Czar. With a twinkle in his eye, he assures them there certainly is, and then goes on to recite the...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Oct 31, 2019 | Free Speech, Freedom, Political Correctness, Politics, Social tyranny, Tolerance, Truth
In John 19:38 Pilate responds to Jesus when he quips, “What is truth?” It was more of a commentary on the problem of language in that day than on the claims of Jesus. The very definition of “truth” in Greco-Roman culture was elusive and contradictory. For the common...
by Jonathan Miles | Jun 6, 2019 | Culture and Society, Politics, Prayer
I think David Platt did just fine when President Trump showed up at McClean Bible Church and sat through the service. Platt brought him on stage and prayed for him. He showed us to the proper way to engage in prayer with our political leaders. I’ll get to how...
by Ron Henzel | Oct 25, 2018 | Abortion, Donald Trump, Evangelical, Evangelicalism, Politics, Sociology, Uncategorized
It’s been a long time since the word “evangelical” meant anything specific in common currency. Back in 1971, long before it became a focus of pollsters like Gallup,1Cf. “5 Things to Know About Evangelicals in America,” by Frank Newport,...
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