by Don and Joy Veinot | Aug 8, 2019 | Centering Prayer, Church leadership, Contemplative Prayer, Eastern Mysticism, Evangelical Left, False Teacher, Gwen Shamblin, Hinduism, mysticism, Perennialism
After I spoke at a church this past weekend, I was asked, “How is it that so many celebrity preachers, celebrity Christian authors, and celebrity pastors take the stage with known (and popular) false teachers?” There are, of course, many possible reasons. It could be...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Jun 27, 2019 | Brian McLaren, Church Growth Movement, Contemplative Prayer, Culture Driven Church, Deity of Christ, Evangelical Left, Homosexuality, Hyper-charismatic, Jesus Seminar, Kenneth Copeland, Liberal Left, Liberalism, New Apostles and Prophets, Progressives, Word Faith
Could it be that many who like to claim Christianity as their faith can only do so by minimizing God? In Christianity& Liberalism by J. Gresham Machen, Machen spends a fair amount of time addressing how liberal theologians in his day, who were “in search of the...
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 Guest Writer | Jan 1, 2018 | Brian McLaren, Emerging Church, Evangelical Left, Liberal Theology, MCOI Journal, Political Correctness, Postmodernism, Progressives, Reliability of the Bible, Spring 2005, Volume 11
(Originally printed in the Spring 2005 Issue of the MCOI Journal beginning in page 10) By Peter Simpson What should the relationship be between the church and culture? How should the constancy of the church adapt to the fluidity of culture? The church must find some...
by Jonathan Miles | Oct 5, 2017 | Bible study, context, Evangelical Left, False Teacher, Heresy, Hermeneutics, Liberal Left, Liberal Theology, Marxism, Political Correctness, Postmodernism, Theological liberalism
Needless to say, I was away from home on a Sunday. We decided to go to a friend’s church we had attended before. I won’t name the church and details have been altered to stave off embarrassment. But I bet you can guess the denomination. The first thing I...
by Ron Henzel | Dec 3, 2016 | Church History, Culture and Society, Evangelical Left, Gay Marriage, Homosexuality, Liberal Left, Political Correctness, Politics, Progressives, Social Justice, Theological liberalism
[Trigger warning: statements that might qualify in some minds as offensive hate-speech will be quoted in this post. Heck, I might even throw in a few of my own!] You know Joe. He’s the VP whose favorability ratings go up every time he puts on Ray-Bans. And you know...
