LTRP Note: The following letter to the editor is an important compilation of research by one of our readers, who clearly understands the dynamics behind Contemplative Prayer and Spiritual Formation. Those who think these are just benign terms and have...

LTRP Note: In September of this year, Lighthouse Trails became the distributor for Greg Reid's new book, The Real "Satanic Panic" Story: Documenting the Reality of Occult Crime and Ritual Abuse - An Eyewitness Account. The following, "Why This Book?"...

Lighthouse Trails is pleased to announce that we once again have publishing rights to Caryl Matrisciana's booklet, A Trip to India—to Learn the Truth About Hinduism and Yoga. You may read the entire booklet below or order it in booklet...

(photo credit: alamy.com; used with permission) By Maria KneasThe increasing antisemitism is distressing beyond words. What really hit me hard was the day after the October 7, 2023 massacre in Israel, students at Columbia University were marching in the streets...

Tucker Carlson (from a 2-second YouTube video clip) LTRP Note: The following is posted for informational and research purposes. By Jonathan S. TobinJewish News Syndicate If the White House and conservative thought leaders don’t condemn the former Fox News host’s...

If pastors or ministries make the claim that they are sharing the Gospel and many are coming to the Lord, does that mean those ministries or churches have a license to allow or ignore false teachings? The disciple Jude has...

By Claude StaufferShepherd of Hope Blog Halloween is one of the biggest money-making holidays in our country. Costumes, candy, parties, movies, and a host of scary paraphernalia are a bonanza to stores and merchants throughout the land. Merchants begin promoting...

LTRP Note: Lighthouse Trails identified Mariner's Church, the creators of the "Rooted Pilot Course," as an "emergent/contemplative" church as far back as 2009. With current teaching pastors such as Christine Caine, Ed Stetzer, and Doug Fields, and with their "Rooted"...

LTRP Note: The following is from Mike Oppenheimer's 2019 booklet. For those who are trying to understand what terms like "dominionism," "kingdom now," "7-mountain mandate," and more mean and where they came from, this booklet explains them along with the...

LTRP Note: For several years now, Lighthouse Trails has received letters from many women who have been involved with BSF (Bible Study Fellowship). Each one expressed a concern that the organization once taught God's Word but over the last decade...

"I have undergone a massive shift in regard to my faith in Jesus. The popular phrase for this is 'deconstruction,' the biblical phrase is 'falling away.' By all the measurements that I have for defining a Christian, I am not...

Dear Lighthouse Trails: In your last e-mail newsletter, you showed us the covers of three upcoming books. And I'm concerned about one of them. It's Calvinism: None Dare Call It Heresy, which exposes some serious problems with Calvinism. I am...

[caption id="attachment_18950" align="alignright" width="326"] Francis Chan in 2016 being prayed for by IHOP's Mike Bickle[/caption] A recent YouTube video that has been viewed over 50,000 times thus far* of highly prolific and popular Christian author and speaker Francis Chan creates...

By the Editors at Lighthouse Trails From the Appendix from Bob Kirkland's book, Calvinism: None Dare Call It Heresy No subject ever discussed can be more important and crucial in this life than the subject of salvation. This is what...

Dear Lighthouse Trails: I would like to thank you for your continuing ministry particularly with regards to warning about Calvinism. I left a Calvary Chapel due in part with the leader and his ongoing support of Brian Brodersen who is...

stock photo, not from Asbury U. LTRP Note: The following letter to the editor from a Lighthouse Trails reader raises valid concerns about circumstances surrounding the Asbury "revival." While Asbury University personnel and numerous secular and religious media outlets say...

Dallas Jenkins with his three spiritual advisors for the The Chosen (photo is a low-resolution 2-second clip of a YouTube video; used in accordance with the U.S. Fair Use Act; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPUwzjUBWoM)) In December of 2021, Lighthouse Trails posted a YouTube...

Dear Lighthouse Trails: This is a tad bit curious in my opinion.  One and a half million people infected globally around the world from the virus and 80,000 deaths and the world comes to a screeching halt. Meanwhile, 900,000 people were infected and...

The New York Times best seller Christian fiction, The Shack, is enjoying the endorsements and ravings of top Christian figures. Contemporary Christian singer Michael W. Smith says: The Shack is the most absorbing work of fiction I've read in many...

We want to thank our readers who have been praying for Ray Yungen during his 7-day cancer treatment in the hospital, which we wrote to you about last week. He is finishing that treatment up today and will be released...

By Kevin Reeves History is filled with stories of those who have stood for truth, many of whom gave their lives to defend the faith God had put in their hearts. History is also filled with those who tried to squelch...

LTRP Note: In December of 2019, Lighthouse Trails first alerted its readers to Critical Race Theory and its entering the church with our article titled "Southern Baptist Convention Adopts “Critical Race Theory”—A Dangerous Marxist “Solution” That Will Not Work." Later,...

Dear Lighthouse Trails, I believe there are those within Christianity today who are getting believers to focus on PHYSICAL threats like an Islamic invasion, corrupt politicians, etc. (threats that can harm the body, but not the soul) but are ignoring...

by Warren Smith (from A "Wonderful" Deception) Rick Warren’s Purpose Driven movement has, in a relatively short period of time, become what TIME magazine has referred to as a “Purpose Driven empire.”1 The word empire is defined in the dictionary...

LTRP Note: The following is posted for informational and research purposes. The PCUSA has been dropping into apostasy for a very long time. The final result of apostasy is the full denial that Jesus Christ is God and is the...

Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — A proposal to ban the circumcision of male children in San Francisco has been cleared to appear on the November ballot, setting the stage for the nation's first public vote on what has long been...