by Joy A Veinot | Mar 22, 2018 | Christ and the Church, Church, Cults and Religions, Culture and Society, Resurrection, Salvation, Theology
(This originally appeared in the March/April 1997 edition of the MCOI Journal) I was raised in a Christian home but, in my teens and early twenties, I became very skeptical of Christian claims, the good book, and especially of God Himself. Looking back, I cannot say I...
by Jonathan Miles | Oct 20, 2016 | Christ and the Church, Christian Life, Christian living, Dominion Theology, Jesus as King, Jesus the Messiah, Problem of Evil
Most people don’t know that when our founding fathers were fighting over what kind of government we should have (during the last days of the Articles of Confederation or during the long hot summer of the Constitutional congress, accounts vary) that a few leaders...
by Don and Joy Veinot | May 2, 2016 | Christ and the Church, Christian Life, Church, Church leadership, MCOI Journal, Psychology, Willow Creek Community Church
by Don & Joy Veinot & Ron Henzel (Originally printed in the Winter/Spring 2003 Issue of the MCOI Journal beginning on page 1) In a world awash in new religious movements—or what could properly be termed the “repaganization” of the world—Russell D. Moore raises...
by Guest Writer | Dec 13, 2015 | Christ and the Church, Church leadership, Discipleship, Fall 1999, MCOI Journal, New Apostles and Prophets, Word Faith
(This originally appeared in the Fall 1999 edition of the MCOI Journal beginning on page 4) —from the book “Beware: The New Prophets” A Caution Concerning the Modem Prophetic Movement— By Pastor Bill Randles A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the...
by Jonathan Miles | Dec 3, 2015 | Christ and the Church, Christian Life, Discipleship
I think I may have found an interesting and unwitting theological analogy in Toy Story: The Land that Time Forgot. I’m sure everyone is familiar with toy story. You may have missed this 30 minute holiday special. The plot revolves around a play date. Bonnie, the...
by Jonathan Miles | Oct 29, 2015 | Christ and the Church, Christian living, Discipleship, Meditation
1 a : the act or process of orienting or of being oriented b : the state of being oriented; broadly : arrangement, alignment 2 a : a usually general or lasting direction of thought, inclination, or interest b :a person’s self-identification as heterosexual,...
