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 | Jun 20, 2019 | Defend the Faith, Inerrancy, Jesus Seminar, Kolob, Liberal Theology, Liberalism, Mormon History, Mormonism, NAR, New Apostles and Prophets, New Apostolic Reformation, Reliability of the Bible, Theological liberalism
Sometimes when I speak in churches on the deity of Christ, I ask the congregation how many believe that Jesus is God? Most raise their hands. When I ask how many believe they could defend that claim, only a few would raise their hands. Then I’d pick someone with their...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Mar 21, 2019 | Boston Church of Christ, Children of God, Christian Science, Gwen Shamblin, Hebrew Roots Movement, Islam, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormonism, New Apostles and Prophets, Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, Weigh Down Workshop, William Branham, Word Faith
What is the cost of leaving a cult or false religious group? What does that even mean? Many well-meaning Christians are under the impression that being in a cult or false belief system is easily remedied by simply exposing bad theology and replacing it with correct...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Jun 28, 2018 | Bible, Bible study, Faithful and Discreet Slave, False Prophecy, False Prophet, False Teacher, Heresy, Jehovah's Witnesses, Jesus - Michael the Archangel, NAR, New Apostles and Prophets, New Apostolic Reformation, Resurrection, The Mirror BIble, The Passion Bible
Some years ago, Bob Anderson of Watchman Fellowship and Erich Grieshaber -former JW and now evangelist – did a short skit called “The Custom Bible Company” at one of the annual Witnesses Now for Jesus Conventions. Although it was a spur of the moment skit that...
by Guest Writer | Jan 14, 2018 | Astrology, Centering Prayer, Contemplative Prayer, MCOI Journal, New Age, New Apostles and Prophets, Occult, Paganism, Sorcery, Spiritism, Summer 2005, Superstition, Volume 11
(Originally printed in the Summer 2005 Issue of the MCOI Journal Beginning on page 6) Part 2 in a 2-Part Look at Occultic-like Beliefs and Practices in the Church By John Ferrer Introduction In the last Journal article “Occultism in the Church” (Part-1),1Since the...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Aug 25, 2016 | Cults and Religions, False Prophecy, False Prophet, False Teacher, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormonism, New Apostles and Prophets, Scripture
“A text without a context is a pretext.” This is something we learned very early on after becoming Christians. This applies to any literature – a novel, a newspaper, the Constitution and yes, certainly the Bible. A text is whatever it is we are reading. Context...