by Don and Joy Veinot | Jul 16, 2026 | Authoritarian, Bill Gothard / IBLP, Christian living, deconstruction, Definitions, Discernment, Grace, Jesus, Legalism, Morality, Morals, Pastors, Repentance, Salvation, Self deceived, Spiritual Abuse, Spiritual arrogance
I (Don) was interviewed last week by Daniel Silliman, senior reporter for the Roy’s Report. The title of the interview is, “Bill Gothard’s legacy: How his errant teaching enabled abuse.” Silliman had just finished reading the updated version of our book on Bill...
by Marcia Montenegro | Feb 5, 2026 | Aceticism, Channeling, Contemplative Prayer, Demons, Desert Fathers, Henry Nouwen, Mindfulness, mysticism, Richard Foster, Richard Rohr, Roman Catholicism, Ruth Haley Barton, Self deceived, Thomas Keating, William Meninger
Interest in the ancient mystics and ascetics has grown among evangelicals over the past quarter-century. Last week, we began this journey into that past with “Part 1: The Desert Fathers and Mothers: A Model for Christians?” Next up in Part 2… John Climacus and the...
by Marcia Montenegro | Jan 29, 2026 | Aceticism, Buddhism, Contemplative Prayer, Desert Fathers, Richard Rohr, Self deceived
Over the past few decades, there has been a growing fascination and interest in the Desert Fathers and Mothers. Somehow their mysticism and asceticism seems somehow more spiritual than we see in the church today. The Apostle Paul addressed this in the first century in...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Aug 7, 2025 | context, Deception, Discernment, Guarding the flock, Immorality, Progressives, Racism, SBC, Self deceived, Southern Baptist Convention, White Fragility, Woke
If the Apostle John were to write his epistles today, perhaps 1 John 2:19 might read more like this: They progressed from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. Seems like a lot of people are progressing away from...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Aug 1, 2024 | Deity of Christ, Jehovah, Jehovah's Witnesses, LGBTQA+, Liberal Theology, Pharisees, Progressives, Resurrection, Scripture, Self deceived, Trinity, Watchtower Bible and Tract Society
In Matthew 22:23 — 33, we read of a group of Jewish religious leaders, the Sadducees, whose theology informed their understanding of Scripture rather than allowing Scripture to shed real light on their faulty theology. John D. Barry comments, “This Jewish group...
by Carl Teichrib | Aug 27, 2020 | Deception, Depravity, Evil, Heresy, Idols, Paradise, Self deceived
At the dawn of human history, before the formation of tribes and nations, a calamity with unimaginable scope and reach rocked creation. For those personally involved, nothing would be the same — their previous reality was ripped away, relationships were ruptured,...
