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Lighthouse
Trails is a Christian publishing company. While we hope you will read the
books we have published and support our authors,
we also provide extensive free research, documentation, and news on our Research
site, blog, and newsletter.
We pray that the books as well as the
online research will be a blessing to the body of Christ and a witness to
those who have not yet accepted Jesus Christ as their Savior and Lord.
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United
Kingdom: School teaches boys to meditate to reduce stress
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 Sam Lister, Health Editor
The Times (UK)
(courtesy
Underground News US)
Pupils at a
leading public school are to receive weekly 40-minute classes in meditation
and stress relief in a ground-breaking addition to the school curriculum.
Schoolboys
aged 14 and 15 at Tonbridge School, in Kent, were given their first lesson
yesterday as part of a course designed with psychologists from the
universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
The project -
the first to introduce meditation skills as a regular subject on the
curriculum - has been designed specifically for adolescents and comes after
the success of a pilot study at the school last year. Click
here to
continue reading.
To read about
the dangers of eastern-style or contemplative-type meditation and its role
with children, see
other articles on Children
and Meditation.
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"Ancient labyrinths enjoying a resurgence"
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Out-of-house news source
A labyrinth is a narrow, circuitous,
complicated, highly structured and unchanging pathway that is nevertheless
said to be uncannily relaxing and profoundly playful.
Advocates say walking a labyrinth will
quiet the mind, feed spiritual hunger, heal suffering, release the ego,
bring order to chaos, amuse, amaze, transform the psyche and give firsthand
experience of the divine.
It seems a tall order for a pattern on a
floor.
Unlike a maze, designed to confuse, a
labyrinth has no dead ends, or even choices. The path, though not obvious
in all its twists and turns, leads only to the center.
"The labyrinth reflects back to you
whatever you need to discover," said psychotherapist and Episcopal
priest Lauren Artress, who will anchor a conference on following sacred
paths in Arvada on Jan. 15-16.
As a member of two professions dedicated to
changing people, Artress considers the labyrinth to be one of the most
powerful tools of transformation she has encountered. Read more.
See our research on
labyrinths to understand their role in contemplative spirituality.
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Church's yearlong journey begins
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LTRP Note: The following article is posted, not as an endorsement of
labyrinths, but rather to illustrate that they are being used in the effort
to unite
all humanity through contemplative-type meditation. For research on labyrinths, click here.
BY
YONAT SHIMRON
News & Observer,
Raleigh, NC
RALEIGH - The
start of a new year often occasions grand wishes for world peace. But a North
Raleigh congregation has come up with a small expression it hopes will make
a difference.
Every day
this year, the church will line up volunteers - at least one a day - to
walk a labyrinth in its backyard garden.
The
labyrinth, an ancient serpentine pattern that twists and turns within a
circle, has long been used as a tool for reflection and prayer. Millbrook
Baptist Church hopes its pink, stamped-concrete pattern, buffered by tall
pine trees, will help people find their own inner calm. Click here to continue reading.
Related
Article:
Enter the Labyrinth by Let Us Reason
ministries
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Protestant-turned-Catholic
Professor Writes Lighthouse Trails With Concerns
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On January 7th, Lighthouse Trails
received the following email from a professor, J. Budziszewski
(Boo-je-shef-skee), who was discussed in one of our 2009 articles.
Professor Budziszewski has given us permission to post his email.
Below his email is our response to him.
A summation of this situation is this: On
April 1st, 2009, Lighthouse Trails released an article titled, "Concerned Family Asks Legitimate Questions of Church Leaders."
The article gave the story of a family, whose son attended a Calvary Chapel
high school. For a last semester assignment for graduating seniors,
students were being asked to read and study a book called How to Stay Christian in College,
written by Budziszewski. The parents became concerned when they learned
that Budziszewski was a Protestant turned Catholic and one who
promoted contemplative prayer practices. In our article, we showed that
Professor Budziszewski was promoting the
contemplative practice of lectio divina in a Focus on the Family
column he writes for young people (see also note at bottom of this
post).
The bottom
line of Professor Budziszewski's concern about our article is that we
are equating contemplative spirituality with New Age, eastern-style
meditation (i.e., Hinduism/Buddhism), and he is saying that the two are not
the same at all. It is for this reason that we are posting his email to us
(with his permission) and also our response to him. It is our hope to
help readers see that the contemplative spirituality that is being heavily
promoted in the evangelical church and within Catholicism as
well produces the same spiritual perception as that in New
Age or Hindu/Buddhist spirituality.
Because we
believe this to be true, we also believe it is completely
inappropriate for a Christian high school to instruct their students
using an author (in an approving manner) who not only has turned away
from Protestant Christianity and gone into Catholicism but also points
his readers toward contemplative prayer practices.
While it
may be possible that Professor Budziszewski is not aware of the nature
of contemplative spirituality, he nevertheless is promoting it. And it is important to
understand that lectio divina is an entry point into stronger forms of
contemplative mystical prayer, and warning about it is completely in line
with biblical injunctions about dangerous practices. Lectio divina is a practice, which
involves mantric-like repetition and focus of words and phrases (usually
from the Bible) and is directly related to the contemplative spirituality
of which Lighthouse Trails is opposed to. As one definition describes the practice of
lectio divina, "lectio divina begin[s] with deep, cleansing breaths
and reciting a chosen phrase or word over and over to help free the
mind." In Tony Jones' book, Divine
Intervention: Encountering God Through Lectio Divina, Jones
instructs: "[R]epeat the word or phrase over and over in your mind,
almost like a mantra (p. 72).
Please note
that Professor Budziszewski refers to the article, "Calvary Chapel
Termination Has Profound Implications," but the actual article where
we address him and his book is "Concerned Family Asks Legitimate
Questions of Church Leaders." Please click here to
continue reading this article.
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Contemplative Terms - The "Inside" Language of the
Contemplative Prayer Movement - Don't be Fooled ...
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Recognize these terms?
They are part of the "inside language" of contemplative
spirituality and all point to one thing ... eastern mysticism
Labyrinths
Enneagrams
Prayer Stations
Breath Prayers
Jesus Candles
The Jesus Prayer
Lectio Divina
Taize
Palms Up, Palms Down
Yoga
The Silence
Sacred Space
Ancient Prayer Practices
A Thin Place
Divine Mystery
Spiritual Direction
Ignation Contemplation
Ignatius Exercises
Contemplative
Centering
Centering prayer
Prayer of the Heart
Dark night of the soul
Practicing the Presence
Divine Center
Inner light
Mantra
Awareness of Being
Slow Prayer
Being in the Present Moment
Beyond Words
Spiritual Disciplines
Spiritual Formation
Many of these terms are considered
"inside" terms according to many contemplatives, such
as free-lance writer, Michael Perschon. On April 16th, 2006, Youth
Specialties issued
an article by Perschon that illustrates the very thing
we are saying here:
"Fitness
buffs have an inside language. The really serious ones like to use proper
anatomy terms, like gluteus maximus instead of bum. They still mean bum
but, like most experts, enjoy having some special knowledge others don't
have. People who practice contemplative prayer are often no different. Like
any other practice, contemplative prayer has its own inside language, which
is clear to the initiated but means little to outsiders. Much of the
writing on contemplative prayer uses this inside language." -Michael
Perschon, "Contemplative Prayer Practices"
Click
here for definitions of the above terms and for a Printer Friendly Version
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WorldNetDaily Applauds Lighthouse Trails Book, Castles in the Sand
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The following excerpt is from a January
5th book review by WorldNetDaily's
Jim Fletcher on Lighthouse Trails' 2009 release, Castles in the Sand by
Carolyn A. Greene.
[A]
believable, action-packed plot ... [a] fantastic effort. "Castles in
the Sand " is definitely an eye-opener!
by Jim Fletcher
WorldNetDaily
A WorldNetDaily
Exclusive Commentary
"When New Age
Creeps into America's Colleges"
"Castles in the
Sand" is a novel which, to the uninformed reader, might rank as
far-fetched and unbelievable in the world of Christian doctrine. If only
...
Author Carolyn Green has spent years
studying the New Age movement and the resulting indoctrination. That she
has teamed up with the brave folks at Lighthouse Trails Publishing is not
an accident. Lighthouse is now a leading publisher of conservative Christian
titles and serves a key role in a dwindling class of [publishing] houses
that are not afraid to be politically incorrect. Major kudos to Lighthouse
Trails Publishing for taking on this important project.
The novel finds young Tessa Dawson
entering a Bible college that is reputable and trusted to be biblically
sound. She soon discovers herself immersed in doctrines that are far from
Christ-centered. The professors and other students are completely submerged
in false teachings, and Tessa soon is drawn to this "new way" of
discovering Christianity. Click here to read this entire review.
Information
on Castles in the Sand:
Table of Contents and Chapter One
Chapter by Chapter Synopsis
Chapter 19: Bad Counsel
Don't
miss our Free Book offer for
Castles in the Sand (expires Feb. 28, 2010)
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Contextual Theology - Falling From Truth Through the
Emerging Church
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by Roger Oakland
In order for the emerging church to succeed, the Bible has to be looked at
through entirely different glasses, and Christianity needs to be open to a
new type of faith. Brian McLaren calls this new faith a "generous
orthodoxy."1 While such an orthodoxy allows a smorgasbord of ideas to
be proclaimed in the name of Christ, many of these ideas are actually
forbidden and rejected by Scripture.
Doug Pagitt believes that he is part of a
cutting-edge response to the new postmodern world. It's a response he and
others see as completely unique, never having been tried before in the
history of man. Pagitt states:
It seems to me that our post-industrial
times require us to ask new questions-questions that people 100 years ago
would have never thought of asking. Could it be that our answers will move
us to re-imagine the way of Christianity in our world? Perhaps we as
Christians today are not only to consider what it means to be a 21st
century church, but also and perhaps more importantly-what it means to have
a 21st century faith.2
Many people I meet at conferences who
come from a wide variety of church backgrounds tell me the church they have
been attending for years has radically changed. Their pastor no longer
teaches the Bible. Instead, the Sunday morning service is a skit or a
series of stories. The Bible seems to have become the forbidden book. While
there are pastors who do still teach the Bible, they are becoming the
exception rather than the rule.
Emergent leaders often say the message
remains the same, but our methods must change if we are going to be
relevant to our generation. The measure of success for many pastors today
is how many are coming, rather than how many are listening and obeying what
God has said in His Word. Let's consider how Doug Pagitt uses the Bible in
his own church. He states:
At Solomon's Porch, sermons are not
primarily about my extracting truth from the Bible to apply to people's
lives. In many ways the sermon is less a lecture or motivational speech
than it is an act of poetry-of putting words around people's experiences to
allow them to find deeper connection in their lives... So our sermons are
not lessons that precisely define belief so much as they are stories that
welcome our hopes and ideas and participation.3
What Pagitt is describing is a contextual
theology; that is, don't use the Bible as a means of theology or measuring
rod of truth and standards by which to live; and rather than have the Bible
mold the Christian's life, let the Christian's life mold the Bible. That's
what Pagitt calls "putting words around people's experiences." As
this idea is developed, emerging proponents have to move away from Bible
teachings and draw into a dialectic approach. That way, instead of just one
person preaching truth or teaching biblical doctrine, everyone can have a
say and thus come to a consensus of what the Bible might be saying. Pagitt
explains:
To move beyond this passive approach to
faith, we've tried to create a community that's more like a potluck: people
eat and they also bring something for others. Our belief is built when all
of us engage our hopes, dreams, ideas and understandings with the story of
God as it unfolds through history and through us.4
You may not have heard the term before,
but contextual theology is a prominent message from the emerging church. In
his book, Models of
Contextual Theology (1992), Stephen B. Bevans defines
contextual theology as:
... a way of doing theology in which one
takes into account: the spirit and message of the gospel; the tradition of
the Christian people; the culture in which one is theologizing; and social
change in that culture, whether brought about by western technological
process or the grass-roots struggle for equality, justice and liberation.5
In other words, the Bible in, and of
itself, is not free-standing-other factors (culture, ethnicity, history)
must be taken into consideration, and with those factors, the message of
the Bible must be adjusted to fit. As one writer puts it, "Contextual
theology aims at the humanization of theology."6 But two questions
need to be asked. First, will the contextualizing of Scripture cause such a
twisting of its truth that it no longer is the Word of God, and secondly,
is Scripture ineffective without this contextualization? To the first, I
give a resounding yes! And to the second, an absolute no. The Word of God,
which is an inspired work of the living Creator, is far more than any
human-inspired book and has been written in such a way that every human
being, rich or poor, man or woman, intelligent or challenged will
understand the meaning of the Gospel message if it is presented in their
native language; and thanks to the tireless work of missionaries for
centuries, the Gospel in native languages is becoming a reality in most
cultures today.
Dean Flemming is a New Testament teacher
at European Nazarene College in Germany and the author of Contextualization in the New
Testament. In his book, he defends contextual theology:
Every church in every particular place
and time must learn to do theology in a way that makes sense to its
audience while challenging it at the deepest level. In fact, some of the
most promising conversations about contextualization today (whether they
are recognized as such or not) are coming from churches in the West that
are discovering new ways of embodying the gospel for an emerging postmodern
culture.7
These "churches in the West"
Flemming considers "most promising" are the emerging churches. He
would agree with Bevans' model of theology, but he has an answer to the
emerging church's dilemma. He states:
Many sincere Christians are still
suspicious that attempts to contextualize theology and Christian behavior
will lead to the compromising of biblical truth ... we must look to the New
Testament for mentoring in the task of doing theology in our various
settings.8
There's good reason some Christians are
suspicious. But it can seem harmless at first because Flemming suggests the
answer is in the New Testament, which he believes should be used as a
prototype or pattern rather than something for doctrine or theology. New
Testament theology is always open for change, he says, but we can learn how
to develop this change by studying New Testament stories and characters.
The premise Flemming presents of contextualizing Scripture is that since
cultures and societies are always changing, the Word must change with it
and be conformed to these changes. But I would challenge this. The Bible
says the Word is living, active, and powerful:
For the word of God is quick, and
powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the
dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a
discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. (Hebrews 4:12)
And if the Word is this powerful, then it
is stable and eternal as well. God, in His magnificence, is the Author of
Scripture, and He surpasses time, culture, and societies. Contextualizing
says people and cultures change, and therefore God's Word must change. But,
on the contrary, it's people who need to change to conform to Scripture. If
we really believe that the Bible is God's Word, this would be clear to see;
but if we think to ourselves that the Word is not infallible, not inspired,
then contextualization would be the obvious expectation.
While certain parts of the Bible may be
read as poetry (as Pagitt suggests), for indeed the Bible is a beautifully
written masterpiece, it is also a living mechanism that is not to be
altered-rather it alters the reader's heart and life. It is much more than
putting words around people's experiences as emergents suggest.
The Bible tells us God is always right;
it is man who is so often wrong. When we rely upon human consensus, we will
end up with man's perspective and not God's revelation. This is a dangerous
way to develop one's spiritual life-the results can lead to terrible
deception.
Brian McLaren put it well when he
admitted it isn't just the way the message is presented that emerging
church proponents want to change ... it's the message itself they are
changing:
It has been fashionable among the
innovative [emerging] pastors I know to say, "We're not changing the
message; we're only changing the medium." This claim is probably less
than honest ... in the new church we must realize how medium and message
are intertwined. When we change the medium, the message that's received is
changed, however subtly, as well. We might as well get beyond our naivete
or denial about this....9
While reaching today's generation for the
cause of Christ is something we as Christians should all desire, we must
remember Jesus Christ challenged us to follow Him and be obedient to
His Word. Scripture commands us to "be not conformed to this world:
but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind" (Romans 12:2). But
the emergents are leading followers in the opposite direction, teaching
that the Word of God needs to be conformed to people and cultures instead
of allowing it to conform lives through Jesus Christ.... reimagining
Christianity allows a dangerous kind of freedom;
like cutting the suspension ropes on a hot air balloon, the free fall may
be exhilarating but the results catastrophic.(From Faith Undone, pp.
42-45.)
Notes
1. Brian McLaren, A
Generous Orthodoxy (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan,
2004).
2. Pagitt, Church
Re-Imagined, op. cit., pp. 17, 19.
3. Ibid., p. 166.
4. Doug Pagitt, Church
Re-Imagined, op. cit., p. 167.
5. Stephen B. Bevans, Models
of Contextual Theology (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis
Books, Seventh Printing, November 2000, http://www.cca.org.hk/resources/
ctc/ctc94-02/1.Yuzon.html), p. 1.
6. Paul L. Lehmann, "Contextual Theology" (Theology Today,
Princeton
Theological Seminary, 1972, http://theologytoday.ptsem.edu/apr1972/v29-1-
editorial2.htm).
7. Dean Flemming, Contextualization
in the New Testament (Downers
Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2005), p. 14.
8. Ibid, pp. 14-15.
9. Brian McLaren, Church
on the Other Side, op. cit., p. 68.
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California gay marriage opponent fears for his life
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Paul Elias
Associated Press on OneNewsNow
SAN FRANCISCO - An outspoken gay marriage
opponent serving as an official litigant defending the state's ban on
same-sex weddings on Friday asked a judge to remove him from the lawsuit
because he feared the trial would generate publicity that could endanger
him and his family.
Hak-Shing William Tam was one of five
people who formally intervened to defend the state from a federal lawsuit
filed against California. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Attorney General
Jerry Brown have declined to mount a defense on behalf of the state.
Tam and the other four interveners were
also the official proponents of Proposition 8, which passed in November
2008 and was upheld four months later by the California Supreme Court. Click here to read entire story.
Related story: Prop. 8 trial told
marriage about more than procreation
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Lesbian 'mother' case presents constitutional issue
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LTRP Note: Lighthouse Trails has now spoken with Liberty Counsel, the legal defense for Lisa
Miller. For those who would like to financially help with Lisa and
Isabella's legal defense, please send contributions to Liberty Counsel and
earmark checks for Lisa Miller. You can also contribute directly online on
their website. Please continue praying for Lisa and Isabella's protection
as they have become fugitives in their own country and scapegoats for
activists of the homosexual movement in the U.S.
Charles
Butts
One News Now
A Vermont
judge has ruled that the birth mother of a Virginia girl must turn custody
of the child over to a former lesbian partner.
Lisa Miller
was in a homosexual relationship with Janet Jenkins in Vermont, but Miller
became a Christian, gave up her former lifestyle and moved to Virginia with
her daughter. Although Jenkins is not the biological mother and never tried
to adopt the now seven-year-old Isabella, Vermont Judge William Cohen
ordered Miller to turn the girl over to Jenkins this Friday. Attorney Steve
Crampton tells OneNewsNow that Liberty Counsel argued before a Virginia
judge last week, asking for Miller's protection.
"There's
a very serious constitutional issue regarding whether Virginia must enforce
the Vermont court order," the attorney notes. "So the clock is
ticking quite loudly right now, and it remains to be seen whether we can
get any relief in Virginia."
Virginia is a
state that only recognizes the union of one man and one woman, and Crampton
explains that "there is an enormous conflict between the laws of
Vermont that have decreed a lesbian legal stranger to be a full parent and
the laws of Virginia...." Click
here to continue.
Related
Article:
Lesbian-Turned-Christian
Mom Fails to Give Up Child to Ex-Partner
Related:
You may join
Lisa Miller's Facebook account by going to www.facebook.com and searching for: Only One Mommy: The Story of Lisa
and Isabella Millerstrong
Liberty Counsel Update on the Hearing in Lisa Miller's Case (Jan.
09)
Biological Mom Ordered to Give Up Child (Nov.
09)
Lisa Miller and daughter "disappear"
(Jan. 10) - World Magazine
Added
1/10/10: YouTube, Protect Isabella
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Warren B. Smith and Ray Yungen Speaking in 2010
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Below is a partial speaking schedule for
Lighthouse Trails authors Warren B. Smith and Ray Yungen for 2010. If
you live near any of these areas, we hope you will get the chance to
attend. All these events are offered free of charge. If you are interested
in having Warren or Ray (or both) speak to your group, call us at
503/873-9092, or email at editors@lighthousetrails.com.
February 27, 2010 (times to be
announced)
Westminster,
California
Joint hosted: Calvary Chapel Pacific Coast & Calvary Chapel Cypress
All day conference with:
Warren B. Smith, Ray Yungen, Johanna Michaelsen, Chris Quintana
6400
Westminster Blvd, Westminster, CA
(714) 890-8026
March 18-21
Red River Bible
& Prophecy Conference
Warren B. Smith, Jacob Prasch, David Hocking, Carl Teichrib, John Higgins
Presented
by: Cornerstone Baptist Church & Crossroads Christian Fellowship
Held at: Courtyard Marriot Moorhead
1080 28th Avenue South
Moorhead, MN 56560
701-232-5869 or 701-371-2416 (conference contact)
No Cost. Free will offering.
April
23-24 (evening)-April 25 (all day)
Last Days Bible Conference
Held
at: Monterey Park Evangelical Free Church
3125 Catalina Blvd NE
Calgary, Alberta
(403) 948-5401
Fri 7pm-10pm Sat 9am-10pm
No cost. Free will offering
April 30-May 1
Discerning the Times
Conference
Warren B. Smith, Rob Lindsted, John Plantz, Dave Dunn, Steve Herzig
Ramada Inn
806 Idylwyld Drive North, DIEFENBAKER ROOM
Saskatoon, Sask.
1-306-371-6877 (conference contact)
No cost. Free will offering.
May
29th (9:30-4:00)
Gold
Country Calvary Chapel
Warren B. Smith, Ray Yungen, Johanna Michaelsen
13026 LaBarr Meadows Rd
Grass Valley, CA 95949
530-274-2108
No cost. Free will offering.
July
25th
(8:30 and 10:30)
Candlelight
Fellowship
5725
N. Pioneer Drive
Coeur d' Alene, Idaho
208-772-7755
No cost.
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Women's Weekend Conference in Oregon Will Feature Lighthouse
Trails Author - Caryl Matrisciana
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 Lighthouse
Trails author, Caryl Matrisciana (Out of India), will be
the guest speaker at a women's weekend conference in Oregon this
coming April. The conference will be held at the Christian Renewal Center,
a beautiful 40 acres of creeks, evergreens, and lodges, nestled in the
Cascade foothills near the Silver Falls State Park.
Caryl's topic
for the weekend will be "Finding Truth In a Confusing World."
Born and raised in India, Caryl saw first hand the effects that Hinduism
had on the people of that nation. After leaving India as a young adult,
Caryl became involved in the counter culture, only to find that elements of
Hinduism and the New Age were very much the same.
The weekend conference begins on Friday, April 16th with dinner at 6:30 and
goes until after lunch on Sunday, the 18th. The suggested donation per
person is $85, which includes 2 nights and 6 meals. A $25 deposit will
hold a spot for you. Registration forms are online at: http://www.christianrenewalcenter.org/retreatform.htm.
Or you may call 503/873-6743 and register by phone. Please let them know
that you heard about this through Lighthouse Trails. 
Spots
will fill quickly for this special weekend, so if you are interested and
able, sign up soon. This is a great opportunity for solid teaching,
fellowship, and time in the Word and prayer. Plus the Silver Falls State
Park, just a couple miles away, is the home of the greatest concentration
of water falls in North America.
Click here to see
photos of CRC's facilities and grounds.
If
you are flying in for this event, you can call CRC to arrange for someone
to pick you up.
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Contemplative Spirituality: A belief system that
uses ancient mystical practices to induce altered states of consciousness
(the silence) and is rooted in mysticism and the occult but often wrapped
in Christian terminology. The premise of contemplative spirituality
is pantheistic (God is all) and panentheistic (God is in all). Common
terms used for this movement are "spiritual formation," "the
silence," "the stillness," "ancient-wisdom,"
"spiritual disciplines," and many others.
Spiritual Formation: A movement that has provided a platform and a channel through which contemplative prayer is entering the church. Find spiritual formation being used, and in nearly every case you will find contemplative spirituality. In fact, contemplative spirituality is the heartbeat of the spiritual formation movement. |
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