by Don and Joy Veinot | Apr 25, 2019 | Atheism, Atheist, Death, Devil, Gospel, Hell
As weird as it may seem, life’s ultimate questions are often posed in rock-and-roll lyrics. Consider, for example, the 1969 hit, “And When I Die,” by the band, Blood, Sweat and Tears. Like so many other poets, story-tellers, and just average human beings have...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Nov 22, 2018 | Atheism, Friends, Prayer, Prayer warrior, Thanksgiving, Worship
My late mother had a tradition on Thanksgiving Day of greeting us with a hearty “Happy Bird Day!” Unlike Joy, I didn’t grow up in a Christian home. My father was an atheist and my mother was a religious eclectic who bought into a variety of New Age beliefs before they...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Sep 27, 2018 | Atheism, Contemplative Prayer, Gospel, Jesus the Messiah, Redemption, Salvation, Sin
On the way back from speaking at Wheatland Congregational Church in Wheatland, Michigan, the 1969 Norman Greenbaum song, “Spirit in the Sky,” kept popping into my head. As it happens, my friend Fred Slagle (who is the pastor of Wheatland) and I have similar...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Aug 30, 2018 | Atheism, Atheist, context, Death, Definitions, Gospel, New Atheists, Redemption, Salvation, Sin
“Honest questions deserve honest answers, but dishonest questions don’t deserve any answers” is a bit of advice passed on to us by our friend and co-founder of Jews for Jesus, the late Jahn Moskowitz. It came at the end of a story he was relaying about a conversation...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Aug 16, 2018 | Atheism, Bible reliable, Church History, Church Invasion, Deity of Christ, False Teacher, Gwen Shamblin, Heresy, Jehovah, Jehovah's Witnesses, Satan, Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, Weigh Down Workshop
Out of concern that the First Century believers were susceptible to deception, the Apostle Peter warned in chapter 3 of his second epistle to be careful of those who distort Scripture “…to their own destruction.” The ones Peter warns about here seem to be a different...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Jan 25, 2018 | Atheism, Creation vs Evolution, Creationsim, Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Robert Jastrow
Genesis 1 and 2 give an overview of the creation of all things. The Gospel of John (John 1:1-3) points back to Genesis 1 and ascribes the creation to “the Word” – the Son of God – Who is by nature God. John 1:3 states that if the Word did not create any...
