by Don Veinot | Nov 8, 2012 | Authoritarian, Christian living, Cults and Religions, Discernment, Eastern Mysticism, Hinduism, Jehovah's Witnesses, Legalism, Psychology
Most often when we think of the consequences of false teaching, we think in terms of eternity. Where will those we care about be after they pass from this world to the next? That is a very big consideration but there are consequences to false teaching and false...
by Don Veinot | Jul 26, 2012 | Brian McLaren, Culture and Society, Evangelical Left, Politically Incorrect Jesus, Politics, Psychology
The news has been filled to brimming with fodder for blogs the last couple of weeks. Conservatives went into a feeding frenzy with the declaration by Barack Obama: If You’ve Got A Business, You Didn’t Build That . His claim isn’t surprising in light of his...
by Don Veinot | Feb 23, 2012 | Bill Gothard / IBLP, General, Psychology
Last week Jonathan in “Whitney Houston’s Missing Will” looked at biolologist Jerry A Coyne’s view that we do not have a will. Coyne is a physicalist (we are simply a physical being) and contends that what anything we view as decisions or actions we may take are...
by Jonathan Miles | Feb 16, 2012 | Atheism, General, Psychology
Steven Tyler weighing in on the Whitney Houston tragedy said, “I hate this disease.” It seems just about every celebrity is commenting on the causes of Whitney’s downward spiral even though we won’t know the toxicology results for some time....
by Don Veinot | Nov 18, 2010 | Politically Incorrect Jesus, Politics, Psychology
The story is told of football couch, Vince Lombardi’s exasperation with the team he had taken over, the Green Bay Packers and their seeming inability to turn around their 10 year losing streak. It is said that he called the team together and began with the following...
by Don Veinot | May 26, 2010 | Church, Culture Driven Church, General, Psychology, Theology, Willow Creek Community Church
In 1975 a second movement was born with the founding of Willow Creek Community Church in the suburbs of Chicago. The founding pastor, Bill Hybels, had been strongly influenced in his thinking, which gave birth to WCCC by two individuals. The first, Gilbert Bilezikian,...
On issues of doctrine, that have been put forward in the public eye: I have experienced(in my active heart and…
Spot on Don. If it looks like a dog, barks like a dog, smells like a dog and behaves like…
It is my understanding that none of the Chosen was written by Mormons. It's true that Jenkins consults with a…
Well this has aged well. Don Veinot - "We talk about it in our article, “The Chosen Dilemma” and Dallas…
'For You have forsaken Your people, the house of Jacob, Because they are filled with eastern ways..." Isaish 2 reminds…