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 | 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 | May 31, 2018 | Death, Evangelical Left, Fear, Good News, Gospel, New Age, Rob Bell, Salvation, Suffering, Theological liberalism
The old saying is “It’s all fun and games until someone gets hurt.” That is true when kids are rough housing and things go dangerously awry. But life can be that way too. Quite often, it seems, human beings go through life with little thought to what happens...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Mar 14, 2018 | Cults and Religions, Death, Depression, DIvided Families, Fear, Grief, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mass Shootings
Our nation collectively grieved the tragic loss of life on September 11, 2001. Despite the anger we all felt towards the terrorists, we all gathered together to comfort those who would not see a husband, wife, father, mother or child return home after a normal day of...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Oct 19, 2017 | Apologetics, Atheism, Bible reliable, context, Creation vs Evolution, Creationsim, Death, Definitions, Early Church Fathers, Evolution, Hermeneutics, Reliability of the Bible, Resurrection, Salvation, Wicca
After our webcast, “500 Years after Reformation, Many Protestants Closer to Catholics than Martin Luther,” someone posted this question; “Why do you believe these bible stories; are you just afraid of death?” In view of the fact that the fear of death has tormented...
by Jonathan Miles | Mar 5, 2015 | Apologetics, Culture and Society, Death, Islam, Redemption
Those words were uttered by the character Frank Underwood in the Netflix original series “House of Cards” Just after saying those words, he spits in the face of the statue of Jesus. Just when I finally think I have to quell my strong desire for good story...