by Don and Joy Veinot | Jan 18, 2024 | Abraham Maslow, Atheist, Brian McLaren, Darwinism, Marxism, No 1, Pedophilia, Progressives, Psychology, Rick Warren, Rob Bell, Robert H. Schuller, Self-Esteem, Summer/Fall 2014, Volume 20, Willow Creek Community Church
Editor’s Note: Over the past twenty-four months or so, one of the questions we receive most often is how Western culture changed so rapidly. Our response is … it didn’t. All of what we are witnessing has been in the works for a very long time. We and...
by Ron Henzel | Mar 23, 2023 | Bill Gothard / IBLP, John MacArthur, Rachael Denhollander, Rick Warren
I’ve spent a fair chunk of my life researching Bill Gothard, interviewing him, warning others about him, and debating him and his followers. So, when someone comes along and accuses a well-known Christian of teaching Gothard’s concepts, it tends to get my attention,...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Mar 2, 2023 | Barack Obama, Gospel, Jehovah's Witnesses, Liberal Theology, Liberalism, Rick Warren, Salvation, Sun Myung Moon, T.D. Jakes, Willow Creek Community Church, Word Faith
I went from being an agnostic/atheist to being born again on September 6, 1974. Joy had recommitted her life to Christ earlier that year and dragged me along for the ride. Together we have undertaken an interesting journey that included some very difficult days and...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Jan 12, 2023 | Counterfeit, Definitions, Deity of Christ, False Prophet, False Teacher, Gwen Shamblin, Heresy, Legalism, Rick Warren, Salvation, Tantra
As most of our readers know, MCOI is a mission to cults and non-Christian religions. In the early days we never envisioned having to research, write and warn believers about false and/or harmful teaching gaining ground within the church. Early on, however, we began...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Apr 29, 2021 | Communion, Mediatrix, No 1, Reformation, Rick Warren, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholicism, Salvation, Volume 13, Winter 2007
(Originally printed in the Winter 2007 Issue of the MCOI Journal beginning on page 1) On April 22 of 2005, I was surprised to come across the Special to the Tribune section of the Chicago Tribune with the headline: “Evangelical Christians have hailed the ‘Purpose...
by Guest Writer | Feb 19, 2018 | Bible study, Bill Hybels, Church leadership, False Prophet, False Teacher, MCOI Journal, Pastors, Rick Warren, Summer 2005, Volume 11
(Originally printed in the Summer 2005 Issue of the MCOI Journal Beginning on page 14) An evil is in the professed camp of the Lord, so gross in its impudence, that the most shortsighted can hardly fail to notice it. During the past few years it has developed at an...
