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...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Dec 23, 2021 | 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 you? If I...
