by Don and Joy Veinot | Jul 27, 2023 | Cancel Culture, Gay Marriage, Gender identity, Gospel, Homophobic, Homosexuality, Human Rights Violations, Identity Politics, Immorality, LGBTQA+, Liberal Left, Salvation
In recent weeks we have undertaken the project of reviewing, updating, and adding to our 2003 book, A Matter of Basic Principles: Bill Gothard and the Christian Life. It had gone out of print a few years ago, but with the HBO docuseries “Shiny Happy People: Duggar...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Jun 29, 2023 | Freedom, Gospel, Grace, Salvation, Sanctification, Servanthood
The Apostle Paul wrote to the church in Galatia to address some very important issues which they had forgotten — Christian freedom chief among them. Along with that, he also laid out some obligations of the Christian life. As Joy and I consider the celebration of the...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Jun 8, 2023 | Bill Gothard / IBLP, Evangelical Left, Legalism, Morality, Paganism, Salvation, Sexual Abuse, Sexual prosperity gospel
There is a cost, very often a high cost, exacted by false teachers in the lives of their followers. Lives can be crushed. Often people are badly damaged spiritually and almost always emotionally devastated by authoritarian leaders in whom they have put their faith....
by Don and Joy Veinot | Apr 13, 2023 | Death, Despair, Grief, Hate, Hypocrites, Poverty, Salvation
Most, well really ALL of us — at some point believe life isn’t fair. The truth is life isn’t fair, and it hasn’t been fair nor unaccompanied by pain and loss since the Garden of Eden. Doesn’t it seem that some people have all the “luck?” Life appears to come...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Mar 2, 2023 | Barack Obama, Gospel, Jehovah's Witnesses, Liberal Theology, Liberalism, Rick Warren, Salvation, Sun Myung Moon, T.D. Jakes, Willow Creek Community Church, Word Faith
I went from being an agnostic/atheist to being born again on September 6, 1974. Joy had recommitted her life to Christ earlier that year and dragged me along for the ride. Together we have undertaken an interesting journey that included some very difficult days and...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Feb 23, 2023 | Beatrice Chestnut, Beth McCord, Claudio Naranjo, Enneagram, G.I. Gurdjieff, Helen Palmer, New Age, Occult, Occultism, Oscar Ichazo, Psychic, Richard Rohr, Russ Hudson, Salvation, Sola Scriptura
(Editor Alert! This article is not short.) One of the newest books promoting the Enneagram to Christians is How We Relate: Understanding God, Yourself, and Others through the Enneagram by Jesse Eubanks.1Jesse Eubanks, How We Relate: Understanding God, Yourself, and...