by Don and Joy Veinot | Jan 21, 2018 | AIDS, Bill Hybels, Edification, Education, Emerging Church, Evangelism, Hermeneutics, MCOI Journal, New Age, Prayer of Jabez, Purpose Drive Life, Rick Warren, Rob Bell, Spiritual AIDS, Spiritual arrogance, Summer 2005, T.D. Jakes, Volume 11, Willow Creek Community Church, Worldview
(Originally printed in the Summer 2005 Issue of the MCOI Journal) In 1 Corinthians 14:8, the Apostle Paul drew a word picture for the Corinthian believers when he wrote: “For if the bugle produces an indistinct sound, who will prepare himself for battle?” This passage...
by Don Veinot | Aug 23, 2012 | Black Liberation Theology, Brian McLaren, Culture and Society, Discernment, Evangelical Left, Politics, Rob Bell, Socialism, Theology
This may seem like an odd question but strikes me as being a good corollary to one that I have been asked quite frequently in recent weeks. The questions on this issue can be summed up in a recent email I received: So, in your opinion, which would be worse for...
by Don Veinot | Dec 1, 2011 | Brian McLaren, Emerging Church, Evangelical Left, General, Politics, Rob Bell, Socialism
Is the celebration of the national holiday called Thanksgiving a time of reflection and thanksgiving or merely the sound of the starting pistol in the race for buying stuff? The answers to this question vary and will be wide ranging. For some these days will be very...
by Don Veinot | Jul 28, 2011 | Evangelical Left, Liberal Theology, Marxism, Rob Bell, Scripture, Socialism, Theology
I was talking with my partner in crime, Jonathon Miles, about this week’s blog and he mentioned a quote that C.S. Lewis had made about having first things first. In my trolling the Internet in search of the quote I stumbled across something that combined the quote...
by Don Veinot | Jul 21, 2011 | Brian McLaren, Emerging Church, Evangelical Left, Liberal Theology, Rob Bell, Socialism, Theology
Just for fun, let’s put Crossan’s method to work on Mark Twain’s book, Huckleberry Finn. If we merely read the book at face value, we will easily understand that it is the story of a boy that floats down the Mississippi River on a raft with a runaway slave named Jim....
Ron, great research, insight, and a fair differentiation between MacArthur and Gothard. I had to laugh at the "Gothard 5:8"…
Lordship salvation and the "Umbrella of protection" are different things. Bill Gothard is an eclectic mystic who hears ideas he…
Question? Does this have anything to do with Lordship Salvation's concepts that MacArthur teaches? I am glad you brought this…
“ Now, in every theological error, there is usually an element of truth.” There is always real cheese in a…
That is an interesting and, as it turns out, a false accusation. The criteria we draw on are not of…