by Don and Joy Veinot | Dec 31, 2020 | ANTIFA, Dayenu, Faith tested, Lawlessness, Mass Shootings, Mass Suicide, Offending Words, Persecution, Politics, Sacrifice, Salvation, Social tyranny, Suicide, Thanksgiving, Traditions
Today marks the last day of the year 2020. At midnight, with the tick of the clock, a new calendar year will be ushered in. Will the chaos of this past year continue on into 2021, or will that subside and give way to a more hopeful time? Folks will make New Year’s...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Dec 24, 2020 | Christian living, Christmas, Good News, Good Works, Grace, Morality Tale, Sacrifice, Salvation
What’s Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books and having every item in ’em through a round dozen of months presented dead against...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Aug 13, 2020 | Abortion, Adultery, CriticalThinkingNotCriticalTheory, Homosexuality, Politically Incorrect Jesus, Racism, Salvation, Sin, Slavery, Social Justice, Social tyranny, Socialism, White Fragility
Young religious legal experts were always asking Jesus questions, trying to stump or trap him into an answer they could use against him in some way. Kind of like our modern-day press corps, except that these 1st century Jewish young guns were probably better educated....
by Don and Joy Veinot | Jul 23, 2020 | bigotry, Lawlessness, Politics, Prayer, Prayer warrior, Racism, Salvation
In one of our all-time favorite films, Fiddler on the Roof, the Jewish citizens of the fictional Russian shtetl of Anatevka ask the rabbi if there is a prayer for the Czar. With a twinkle in his eye, he assures them there certainly is, and then goes on to recite the...
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...
