by Jonathan Miles | Nov 8, 2018 | Atonement, Grace, Redemption, Repentance, Salvation, Sin
I call to you with one lung exploded, from breathing the dust of the earth, With my tongue eroded from licking the crust of the Earth, Thus begins one of my favorite songs. The artist is a band big in the 90s called The Choir. It is a modern day Psalm of redemption....
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 Don and Joy Veinot | Aug 30, 2018 | Atheism, Atheist, context, Death, Definitions, Gospel, New Atheists, Redemption, Salvation, Sin
“Honest questions deserve honest answers, but dishonest questions don’t deserve any answers” is a bit of advice passed on to us by our friend and co-founder of Jews for Jesus, the late Jahn Moskowitz. It came at the end of a story he was relaying about a conversation...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Aug 9, 2018 | Apocalyptic, Armageddon, Faithful and Discreet Slave, Good News, Good Works, Gospel, Jehovah, Jehovah's Witnesses, Paradise, Redemption, Salvation, Watchtower Bible and Tract Society
The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, popularly known as Jehovah’s Witnesses, teach there is a two-class system of the faithful. There is the elite “anointed class,” 144,000 people who are going to heaven to rule and reign with Jesus when they die. The lower class...
by Don Veinot | Jul 26, 2018 | Atheist, Cults and Religions, Forgiveness, I can only imagine, Marriage, Redemption
On Saturday evening at the old homestead, we had movie night and watched the newly released for streaming, I Can Only Imagine. Faith films these days sometimes seem a little hokey, lacking depth: It’s almost like they work so hard to be “Christian” that they forget...
by Jonathan Miles | May 2, 2018 | Avengers: Infinity War, Eastern Mysticism, Empire Strikes Back, Redemption
Spoiler Warning: This post contains the most minor of spoilers for Avengers: Infinity War and one whopper of a spoiler for the Empire Strikes Back. Some of you are old enough to remember seeing Empire Strikes Back at the theatre. That movie is of course the best of...
