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The Diet of Jesus?

As most of our readers know, MCOI is a mission to cults and non-Christian religions. In the early days we never envisioned having to research, write and warn believers about false and/or harmful teaching gaining ground within the church. Early on, however, we began receiving calls about Bill Gothard and the Institute in Basic Life […]

Silent God Silent Man, a Book Review

See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world , rather than according to Christ. (Colossians 2:8) Brandon Medina et al. writes that love was the impetus for writing Silent God Silent Man: Revealing the True Heart of […]

Jude 5 – Reconsidered

In the November 24, 2022 issue of MCOI’s E-Letter The Crux, under the heading of “The Deity of Christ Throughout Scripture,” Don points us to Kaspars Ozolins’ article in the Proclamation! Online Magazine, “How the Little Book of Jude Refutes Adventism.” In that article, Ozolins writes: For in the incarnation, the Lord Jesus Christ took […]

A Simple “Merry Christmas” is More than a Pleasant Greeting

“I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet the words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men!” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Christmas Bells) The poem “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day” was composed by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on December 25, 1864, and turned into a […]

We Need a Little Christmas

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 now1“We Need a Little Christmas” – From Jerry Herman’s 1966 Broadway musical, Mame, Here we are in the final days before the celebration […]

People Matter to God

I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round—apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that—as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when […]

The Quandary of Seeming Biblical Contradictions

We regularly receive phone calls, emails, or questions in person from folks seeking answers to apparent biblical contradictions. Sometimes the questioner needs to be able to respond to a skeptic. This issue of seeming Bible contradictions is a favorite of skeptics trying to play “Gotcha” with a believer, using the contradiction accusation to undermine the […]

Marvel and DC Comics’ Gnostic War for Your Child’s Soul

Should the philosophies behind the stories in Marvel and DC Comics and films be promoted by Christians? According to Good Fight Ministries1MCOI does not necessarily agree with or endorse all of the positions of this ministry in their documentary, “Marvel & DCs War on God: The Antichrist Agenda,” many of the actors in these movies […]

Revisiting “A House Divided Against Itself”

Seventeen years ago, right after the Bush v Kerry election, we wrote a journal article, “A House Divided Against Itself,” about the state of our nation. It was specifically about the yawning divide that had opened up between the two parties, or more accurately, between two dueling visions of what our nation should be and […]

Difficult Good-byes

In 1 Thessalonians 4, the Apostle Paul encourages those who are missing loved ones that have passed away.  He writes: But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. (1 Thessalonians 4:13) It is interesting Paul does […]