by Don and Joy Veinot | Sep 1, 2022 | Jehovah, Jehovah's Witnesses, Salvation, Slavery, Watchtower Bible and Tract Society
In Acts 16:30 – 31, we read what is perhaps the most important question anyone can ask. The answer is surprisingly simple: “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.” How can I have...
by Joy Veinot | Apr 21, 2022 | Cults and Religions, Culture and Society, Enneagram, Grace, January/February 1996, Jehovah's Witnesses, M Scott Peck, MCOI Journal, Paganism, Psychology, Salvation
In Ecclesiastes 1:9-11, Solomon wrote: What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun. Is there a thing of which it is said, “See, this is new”? It has been already in the ages before us. There is no...
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 Carl Teichrib | Feb 3, 2022 | Faith tested, Grief, Mourning, Problem of Evil, Resurrection, Salvation
(Editor’s Note: The following is excerpted from chapter 8 in Carl’s book, Game of Gods: The Temple of Man in the Age of Re-Enchantment.) On the evening of August 8, 1995, a pickup truck lost control as it approached a wooden bridge less than a mile from my...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Jan 27, 2022 | Deceiver, Deception, False Prophet, False Teacher, Heresy, NAR, New Apostolic Reformation, Salvation, Worship
When Jesus spoke with the Samaritan woman at the well (John 4:7-30), she pointed to an ongoing conflict between Samaritans and the Jews concerning the proper worship of God. The issue was location. “Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in...
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...
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…