by Jonathan Miles | Dec 27, 2018 | Bible Prophecy, Christmas, Good News, Holy Night, Incarnation
As I write this, my children have been shoe’d up stairs for the umpteenth time. All the presents are wrapped and house is silent, at least for a few hours until one of my sleepy eye’d progeny asks what time is it somewhere around O-Dark-Thirty. Needless to say,...
by Joy A Veinot | Dec 20, 2018 | Good News, Grace, Incarnation, MCOI Journal, November/December 1996, Salvation
(Originally printed “The Gift” In the November/December 1996 MCOI Journal) What is it about Christmas that draws us every year to celebrations of this holiday? What is so special about Christmas? Christmas is a special time because of the happiness it...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Aug 9, 2018 | Apocalyptic, Armageddon, Faithful and Discreet Slave, Good News, Good Works, Gospel, Jehovah, Jehovah's Witnesses, Paradise, Redemption, Salvation, Watchtower Bible and Tract Society
The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, popularly known as Jehovah’s Witnesses, teach there is a two-class system of the faithful. There is the elite “anointed class,” 144,000 people who are going to heaven to rule and reign with Jesus when they die. The lower class...
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 Jonathan Miles | Mar 1, 2018 | Billy Graham, Good News, Gospel, Grace
As all of you know, a great man has died. From what I know of him, I think that is the strongest compliment he would allow. Call him a saint and he would remind you that all God’s children are saints. Call him a hero and he would, no doubt, remind you that all...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Dec 21, 2017 | Bible Prophecy, Christmas, Good News, Gospel, Incarnation
For I’ve grown a little leaner, Grown a little colder, Grown a little sadder, Grown a little older, And I need a little angel, Sitting on my shoulder, Need a little Christmas now (“We Need a Little Christmas 1From Jerry Herman’s 1966 Broadway musical,...
