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On Teaching Spiritual Darkness

By John LanaganThe Word Like Fire Ministries False teachers and false movements abound. Some do lasting damage. Some false teachings are short-lived. But there is one deceptive “prayer” practice in particular that continues to infect the visible church. This is…

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Will Christians Replace Commitment to the Gospel for Commitment to a Unified Dominionist Agenda to “Save the Country”?

The headline above is from an article Lighthouse Trails wrote in 2015. We are posting this article again because this month four highly popular evangelical leaders did something that more than surprised many people. And we believe what they did…

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Apostasy: Broken Lives and Shattered Faith Versus Those Who Resist

LTRP Note: For several years, Kevin Reeves was an elder at an NAR Latter-Rain church. He writes about his experience in his book, The Other Side of the River. By Kevin Reeves These are critical days for the body of…

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IHOP-KC’s Mike Bickle: “There’s no biblical definition for contemplative prayer”

By John LanaganThe Word Like Fire “It has been with great dismay that I have watched one Christian leader after another succumb to the appeal of contemplative spirituality,” states Ray Yungen in A Time of Departing. (pg.184) Some, like IHOP…

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Slain in the Spirit—Is It a Biblical Practice?

Note: For several years, Kevin Reeves was a member and elder in a NAR “River,” “Latter Rain” church. His testimony of how the Lord opened his eyes and delivered him from this deception is written in his book The Other…

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Letter to the Editor: Former YWAM Staff Member Issues Warning to Young People

To Lighthouse Trails: Please make it very clear that Youth With A Mission (YWAM) was helping to head up The Send. In fact, YWAMers went to Lou Engle, and together they formed the idea for The Send. As a very…

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False Revival Kick-Started by Francis Chan, Rodney Howard Browne, Benny Hinn, Bill Johnson, and Todd White

How do you start a true revival with key controversial NAR leaders—ask Francis Chan; he was there. Former pastor Francis Chan, who recently spoke at The Send conference in Florida with numerous NAR leaders such as Benny Hinn, Bill Johnson, Todd White, and Rodney Howard Browne, said in his own defense for sharing such a platform:

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Roma Downey – Disappears From NRB LineUp – But NAR/7 Mountains Event Has Her Front and Center

While NRB has removed Roma Downey’s picture and name from the speaker lineup for Proclaim 19, during the same week, she is listed (front and center) at the International Culture Shapers Summit. Hmm. Interesting. (picture below blurry in original) Please…

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D is for Deception: The Language of the “New” Christianity

By Kevin Reeves and the Editors at Lighthouse Trails A number of years ago, a book written by emerging-church leaders Brian McLaren and Leonard Sweet was released. The book was called A is for Abductive: the language of the emerging…

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The Perfect Spiritual Storm Looming

By T.A. McMahon The Berean Call Perfect storm defined: a mixture of seemingly varied events that converge together creating a greater magnitude of devastation. I remember as though it were yesterday a conversation I had with Dave Hunt not too…

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Letter to the Editor: Catholic/NAR Theological Unity Coming on Rapidly

To Lighthouse Trails: On November 22 on TBN, Samuel Rodriguez promoted Catholic priest Father Cedric, who apparently has been on TBN before. http://www.tbn.org/watch-us/our-programs/live-with-passion-hosted-by-fr-cedric-pisegna Rodriguez, as you know, is New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) affiliated. The Catholicism/New Apostolic Reformation theological unity is…

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Question to the Editor: What Do You Know About Ed Silvoso and the Transformation Movement?

“Ed Silvosos’ paradigm is no different than many others who have come into the church before basically “rethinking everything into a new strategy.” Using the magic word of ‘transformation’ (a word originally found in theosophy of the New Age movement),…

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