by Don and Joy Veinot | Mar 24, 2022 | Evangelism, Good News, Invest, Jehovah's Witnesses, Racism, Redemption, Sacrifice, Salvation, Schindler
Often people will contact us looking for what we call “the silver bullet verse” to convince a JW (or other cultists) relative or friend that they have it wrong on doctrine, hoping to persuade them to leave the organization when they realize they have been deceived. We...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Jan 20, 2022 | Brian McLaren, Christopher Heuertz, Cosmic Christ, Eastern Mysticism, Emerging Church, Enneagram, Evangelicalism, Pastors, Progressives, Redemption, Richard Rohr, Salvation, Suzanne Stabile
All roads that lead to God are good. What matters it, your faith, or mine? Both centre at the goal divine Of love’s eternal Brotherhood. The kindly life in house or street – The life of prayer and mystic rite – The student’s search for truth and light – These paths at...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Nov 11, 2021 | Brian McLaren, Hell, Jehovah's Witnesses, Redemption, Richard Rohr, Rob Bell, Salvation, Scripture, Seventh-Day Adventist, Suffering
Before the first seven notes of the song are finished, nearly everyone knows it is Folsom Prison Blues by Johnny Cash. He first wrote the song in 1955, recorded it in 1957, and included it on a compilation album All Aboard the Blue Train in 1962. The song skyrocketed...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Aug 19, 2021 | Gospel, Grace, N.T. Wright, Redemption, Sacrifice, Salvation
We originally posted this on August 3, 2017, as a follow-up to a blog which MCOI Senior Researcher Ron Henzel had posted a week earlier. His blog, “N.T. Wright’s Long Farewell,” drew comments which seemed to indicate that some believed salvation can only be achieved...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Jun 24, 2021 | Critical Race Theory, CRT, Racism, Redemption, SBC
At the 2021 SBC (Southern Baptist Convention) Annual Meeting in Nashville last week, quite a few people wondered if the SBC, as currently established, would survive the great turmoil going on within its ranks. One friend said that the SBC would indeed survive, “but...
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...
The Catholic Church does not definitively teach that the three Marys were the same. Scholars since the early church have…
Attempts have been and continue to be made to bring about repentance. In the Old Testament, false prophets were to…
The Reformed position doesn't "replace" Israel with the church. Like the apostle Paul, the Reformed position is that believing Jews…
What kind of Christian has no love for other people? What kind of author allows this in the comments? I…
That is a great question. There are enough issues of serious concern with the program, as we point out in…