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 | Apr 18, 2019 | Adventists, Apocalyptic, Easter, Millerites, Passover, Resurrection, Seventh-Day Adventist, William Miller
The 50,000 followers of William Miller were terribly dismayed when Jesus did not return bodily to earth in March of 1844, as Miller had predicted would happen. When Jesus did not appear, Miller claimed that they just had to give it a few more months – that Jesus would...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Sep 28, 2017 | context, Discernment, Ellen G. White, False Prophecy, False Prophet, False Teacher, Heresy, Sabbath, Seventh-Day Adventist
The internet and “Christian TV” today have become a great marketplace of religious ideas of all stripes, and people often do not know exactly who to trust. Just about every denomination and sect of Christendom is represented, plus, of course, every type of cult and...
by Guest Writer | Jun 6, 2016 | Ellen G. White, MCOI Journal, Seventh-Day Adventist, Volume 9, Winter/Spring 2013
By Roger DeLozier (Originally printed in the Winter/Spring 2003 Issue of the MCOI Journal beginning on page 12) Ellen White in her book Steps to Christ said “But Christ has made a way of escape for us. He lived on earth amid trials and temptations such as we have to...
by Colleen Tinker | Aug 24, 2013 | Cults and Religions, Fall 2009, MCOI Journal, Resurrection, Seventh-Day Adventist
by Colleen Tinker (Originally printed in the Fall 2009 MCOI Journal) I frequently hear the comments: “Adventists today are changing.” “They’re such nice people, and they’re so sincere!” “I did my residency at an Adventist hospital; they believe what I believe except...
by Don Veinot | Oct 23, 2011 | Cults and Religions, Fall 2011, False Prophecy, Jehovah's Witnesses, MCOI Journal, Salvation, Seventh-Day Adventist
(Originally printed in the Fall 2011 Issue of the MCOI Journal) US preacher: “What I meant was the end of the News of the World.” American evangelist Harold Camping has confirmed that his earlier prophecy of the end of the world, which was due to fall on 21 May this...
