by Don and Joy Veinot | Jun 4, 2020 | Bible, Evil, Fear, Forgiveness, Good Works, Gospel, Grace, Salvation
When talking with unbelievers, non-Christians, atheists, etc., the question underlying their objection to the faith is almost never, “Why do good things happen to bad people?” Usually their question is more along the lines of “Why is there evil?” “Why is there rape?”...
by Joy A Veinot | Apr 9, 2020 | Atheist, Bible, Forgiveness, Passover, Sacrifice, Salvation
I was raised in a Christian home but, in my teen years, I became quite skeptical of Christian claims, the good book, and especially of God Himself. Looking back, I cannot say I really doubted the existence of God, but I did not feel I liked Him all that much, or at...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Apr 2, 2020 | Atheist, Communion, Easter, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jesus - Michael the Archangel, Passover, Sacrifice, Salvation
This is one of the times each year that the secular media runs to famous atheists to gain insight into the “myth,” as they view it, concerning Jesus’s resurrection, the very heart of Christian belief. It is obvious that they do not believe that Jesus came out of His...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Feb 20, 2020 | Good News, Gospel, Grief, Prayer, Salvation, Sin, Soul
In the classic Christmas movie, “It’s a Wonderful Life”, George Bailey, not a religious man, becomes desperate enough with his life circumstance to pray for God’s help. Immediately following the prayer, an angry man comes over and punches him hard in the jaw. As he...
by Carl Teichrib | Jan 23, 2020 | Brian McLaren, Marxism, Richard Rohr, Salvation, Sin, Social Justice, Worldview
(Editor’s Note: The following is an adaptation from chapter 15 of Carl Teichrib’s book, Game of Gods: The Temple of Man in the Age of Re-Enchantment.) Professing Christians have three primary options in considering a response to our shifting world. First, we can...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Jan 16, 2020 | Deity of Christ, Jehovah, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jesus, Jesus the Messiah, Redemption, Salvation, Trinity
If we began this post with the words, “Once upon a time…” and went on to tell the tale of two Jehovahs, most would assume it was just a story, perhaps a fairly-tale. In actuality, the story is true, it’s in the Bible, and the One telling it is Jehovah Himself. Since...
