by Joy Veinot | Dec 20, 2021 | Good News, Grace, Incarnation, MCOI Journal, November/December 1996, Salvation
(Originally printed “The Gift” In the November/December 1996 MCOI Journal) What is it about Christmas that draws us every year to celebrations of this holiday? What is so special about Christmas? Christmas is a special time because of the happiness it...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Dec 16, 2021 | Christ, Elders, Enneagram, False Teacher, Pastors, Richard Rohr, Sacrifice, Salvation, Sin
In Judges, Gideon asks God how to choose his men for battle. The Lord told Gideon to take his men down to the river and drink. The men who flopped down on their bellies and drank like dogs were no good to him. Gideon watched as some of his men knelt down and drank...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Nov 11, 2021 | Brian McLaren, Hell, Jehovah's Witnesses, Redemption, Richard Rohr, Rob Bell, Salvation, Scripture, Seventh-Day Adventist, Suffering
Before the first seven notes of the song are finished, nearly everyone knows it is Folsom Prison Blues by Johnny Cash. He first wrote the song in 1955, recorded it in 1957, and included it on a compilation album All Aboard the Blue Train in 1962. The song skyrocketed...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Oct 7, 2021 | Church Invasion, Counterfeit, Deity of Christ, False Prophet, False Teacher, Guarding the flock, Gwen Shamblin, Salvation, Trinity, Weigh Down Workshop
The people who have less trouble with the deceitful lies that keep you overeating are the people who watched Weigh Down’s Orientation Video and decided from the start that I was a leader from God, so they submitted themselves freely to the teachings on the tapes...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Sep 9, 2021 | Christ, Church, Sacrifice, Salvation, Terrorism, Thanksgiving
Then Joshua called the twelve men from the people of Israel, whom he had appointed, a man from each tribe. And Joshua said to them, “Pass on before the ark of the Lord your God into the midst of the Jordan, and take up each of you a stone upon his shoulder, according...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Aug 19, 2021 | Gospel, Grace, N.T. Wright, Redemption, Sacrifice, Salvation
We originally posted this on August 3, 2017, as a follow-up to a blog which MCOI Senior Researcher Ron Henzel had posted a week earlier. His blog, “N.T. Wright’s Long Farewell,” drew comments which seemed to indicate that some believed salvation can only be achieved...
