Quick Links: Greg Laurie Letter to Pastors Laurie Sponsorship for PDL Event Contact person at New York City Leadership group: Beverly Cook (Director of Communications) On May 6th, Greg Laurie, pastor of mega-church Harvest Christian Fellowship wrote a letter to pastors and church leaders in the New York region, announcing his Harvest Crusade 2008 in … [Read more…]
As Lighthouse Trails has reported many times in the past, Rick Warren (pastor of Saddleback Church) has been promoting the spiritual formation (i.e., contemplative prayer) movement for many years. This report will show that Saddleback Church is directly recommending numerous contemplative materials to those under their influence through “spiritual formation” and what they term “maturity.” … [Read more…]
McLaren’s Future – Your Grandchildren Brian McLaren’s newest book, Finding Our Way Again: The Return of the Ancient Practices, is the first in a series of eight books by Thomas Nelson publishers. The General Editor of the series, which is titled The Ancient Practices Series, is emerging church proponent Phyllis Tickle. Other authors in the … [Read more…]
This week, the Awaken 2008 with Erwin McManus is taking place at William Carey University in Pasadena, California. Many of the event speakers (called “Thought Leaders”) promote contemplative mysticism, but one in particular, Mark Batterson, points readers on his website to Eckhart Tolle, a New Age guru who is currently being heralded by Oprah Winfrey. … [Read more…]
LTRP Note: On November 23rd, 2007, we posted an article titled “Rick Warren, Bill Hybels, Brian McLaren and other Contemplative/Emerging Leaders Invite Muslims to Love God, Neighbors Together”. The following article from the Christian Post is a follow up of that situation. “Influential Evangelicals Withdraw from Christian-Muslim Statement” Christian Post courtesy True Discernment Administrators from … [Read more…]
by Understand the Times with Roger Oakland LTRP Note: This is a revised reposting of Roger Oakland’s article “My Trip to the Rethink Conference.” At the paragraph marked with an *, Roger has added some comments about his trip. Lighthouse Trails thanks Roger Oakland for his courage to continually and sacrifically go to the front … [Read more…]
Top 10 In-House Stories in 2007 The Secret: “A New Era for Humankind” The Secret makes no secret about it’s intentions: to let the world know that humanity is on the brink of a new era. This new era will open up to humanity unleashed power, riches, creativity and all that we ever dreamed of. … [Read more…]
Prairie Bible Institute, a renown Bible college in Alberta, Canada, is showing strong signs that it is going in a contemplative direction. A concerned parent contacted Lighthouse Trails and told us about a Servant (the college magazine ministry) article that quoted New Age/goddess worshipper Sue Monk Kidd. Unfortunately, this is not the only indication that … [Read more…]
The Church Report has released their annual“America’s 50 Most Influential Churches” poll. The list is compiled each year by getting the input of around 2000 church pastors and leaders. Last year’s list, on which we reported, is very similar to this year’s. Willow Creek (Bill Hybels) is in the number one spot, and Saddleback (Rick … [Read more…]
This year’s Pentecost 2007 will take place on June 3rd – 6th in Washington DC. Invited speakers include emerging church leader, Brian McLaren, Bill Hybel’s wife–Lynne Hybels (Willow Creek), and liberal mystic-proponent Jim Wallis. Last fall, we reported on Pentecost 2006, stating: This summer’s Pentecost 2006 conference, titled “Building a Covenant for a New America,” … [Read more…]
LTRP Note: This New York Times article quotes Chuck Colson as saying that the evangelical movement is growing up. With the heavy infiltration of mysticism and New Age thought into the evangelical church, it is anything but growing up. New York Times By MICHAEL LUO and LAURIE GOODSTEIN Emphasis Shifts for New Breed of Evangelicals … [Read more…]
Some say that those who are warning about contemplative spirituality and it’s invasion into Christendom are alarmists, that it really isn’t as bad as we are making it sound. Well if the Church Report poll (where over 200,000 voters responded), which names the “50 Most Influential Christians” is any indication, contemplative spirituality is being promoted … [Read more…]
2007 will host many “Christian” conferences. Unfortunately, a significant number of them will be including speakers who promote contemplative spirituality, a belief system that ultimately leads away from the Cross of Jesus Christ, not to it. Below are some of those conferences. If your church has plans to send your pastor, young people, men or … [Read more…]
Wesleyan Publishing House, the publishing arm of the Wesleyan church is going contemplative. This past summer, we reported that the Wesleyan Church was offering contemplative retreats called Holy Next: Spiritual Formation Retreat. Dr. Keith Drury (featured on HolyNext and a professor at Indiana Wesleyan University) writes “extensively on spirituality.” His newest book is titled With … [Read more…]