by Don and Joy Veinot | Dec 8, 2022 | Christmas, Good Works, Incarnation, Paradise, Redemption, Resurrection, Roman Catholic, Salvation, Soul
I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round-apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that-as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Sep 1, 2022 | Jehovah, Jehovah's Witnesses, Salvation, Slavery, Watchtower Bible and Tract Society
In Acts 16:30 — 31, we read what is perhaps the most important question anyone can ask. The answer is surprisingly simple: “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.” How can I have...
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...
