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...
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...
On issues of doctrine, that have been put forward in the public eye: I have experienced(in my active heart and…
Spot on Don. If it looks like a dog, barks like a dog, smells like a dog and behaves like…
It is my understanding that none of the Chosen was written by Mormons. It's true that Jenkins consults with a…
Well this has aged well. Don Veinot - "We talk about it in our article, “The Chosen Dilemma” and Dallas…
'For You have forsaken Your people, the house of Jacob, Because they are filled with eastern ways..." Isaish 2 reminds…