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Lighthouse Trails 2017 YEAR IN REVIEW – PART 1 – Top 10 Letters to the Editor

December 27, 2017 by Lighthouse Trails Editors Leave a Comment

Every year around this time, Lighthouse Trails presents its Year in Review. Over the next few days, we will be posting our top stories from different categories from 2017. This is an opportunity to read stories you may have missed and also to get a wide-lens glance at important things happening in the church and … [Read more…]

Posted in: YEARS IN REVIEW Tagged: 2017, awana, bethel church, bill johnson, brian brodersen, Calvary Chapel, Catholicism, contemplative prayer, emergent church, emerging church, freemasonry, hyper-charismatic, YEAR IN REVIEW

KIDS AT RISK: Letter to the Editor: AWANA Continuing Down the Emergent Road

August 29, 2017 by Letters to the Editor Leave a Comment

Dear Lighthouse Trails: A while back I alerted you to the fact that Awana was joining forces with Josh Griffin who was the youth pastor for Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church. Josh Griffin is also associated with Youth Specialties, an organization that promotes occult [contemplative] practices to youth. Unfortunately, Awana is continuing down the emergent road. … [Read more…]

Posted in: CHILDREN AT RISK!, Christian Organizations, LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, The Emerging Church Tagged: awana, awana youth ministries, bill hybels, Dallas Willard, doug fields, josh griffin, lent, letter to the editor, n.t. wright, penance, Rick Warren, Road to Rome, Saddleback, steve kozak, Willow Creek, youth specialties

Letter to the Editor: AWANA Now Teaching Children to Hear the Voice of God

May 1, 2017 by Letters to the Editor

LTRP Note: Today, the church is “reaping the fruit” of nearly 40 years of Spiritual Formation influence (since Richard Foster’s Celebration of Discipline was released in 1978). Lighthouse Trails has warned its readers on a number of occasions about the direction AWANA children’s club is going with regard to contemplative spirituality (i.e., Spiritual Formation) (see links … [Read more…]

Posted in: Children and Meditation, CHILDREN AT RISK!, Christian Organizations, Contemplative Organizations, Contemplative Spirituality, LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Tagged: awana, awanas, contemplative prayer, letter to the editor, spiritual formation

2016 YEAR IN REVIEW – PART 4 – TOP 10 LIGHTHOUSE TRAILS EDITORS’ ARTICLES

December 31, 2016 by Lighthouse Trails Editors

See also Part 1 Year in Review | See also Part 2 Year in Review | See also Part 3 Year in Review (Listed in order of date posted) 1/A History of AWANA’s Contemplative Track Record and the Implications of Their New CEO On March 9th of this year, a press release came out announcing … [Read more…]

Posted in: Christian Publishers/Bookstores, InterVarsity Press, YEARS IN REVIEW Tagged: awana, brian brodersen, charismatic, Ecumenism, erwin lutzer, gatherint 206, greg laurie, homeschoolers, homeschooling, intervarsity, intervarsity christian fellowship, intervarsity press, jesus calling, pope francis, revival, Road to Rome, Same-Sex Marriage, Skip Heitzig, together 2016, Warren Smith

Letter to the Editor: Concerns By Awana Leader About Awana Linking Hands with the Emerging Church

November 17, 2015 by Lighthouse Trails Editors

LTRP Note: Lighthouse Trails has had concerns about the direction Awana may be heading for a number of years. This letter (of which we substantiated the contents -see added links) below gives further reason to continue those concerns. Below this letter, you can see links to a few articles we have previously posted about Awana. … [Read more…]

Posted in: CHILDREN AT RISK!, Christian Organizations, Conference Alerts, Contemplative Organizations, LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, Rick Warren, Spiritual Formation, The Emerging Church Tagged: awana, awana club, awanas, Dan Kimball, doug fields, josh griffin, letter to the editor, national youth convention, youth specialties

The Dangers of Spiritual Formation?—And Some Ways it is Influencing Your Children

August 9, 2014 by Lighthouse Trails author

By Berit Kjos (author of How to Protect Your Child From the New Age and Spiritual Deception) The Spiritual Formation movement is widely promoted at colleges and seminaries as the latest and the greatest way to become a spiritual leader. It teaches people that this is how they can become more intimate with God and … [Read more…]

Posted in: Children and Meditation, CHILDREN AT RISK!, Christian Organizations, Christian Publishers/Bookstores, Contemplative Organizations, Contemplative Practices, Contemplative Spirituality, Lectio Divina, Mystical Practices, Spiritual Formation, The Ancient Mystics, The New Spirituality, The Role of Meditation Tagged: awana, awana club, awanas, Berit Kjos, Brennan Manning, Brian McLaren, celebration of discipline, CHILDREN AT RISK!, contemplative, contemplative prayer, Contemplative Spirituality, Henri Nouwen, lectio divina, meditation, mysticism, navpress, panentheism, perspectives on Children's spiritual formation, Richard Foster, richard rohr, Roger Oakland, samadhi, spiritual formation, Thomas Merton, TM, transcendental meditation, Yoga

Revisting Awana’s Move Toward Contemplative – And Another Look at “Perspectives on Children’s Spiritual Formation

April 14, 2012 by Lighthouse Trails Editors

Update April 2012: Because Awana’s book, Perspectives on Children’s Spiritual Formation is circulating the market, and because we hear from Lighthouse Trails readers who ask about Awana and their promotion of Spiritual Formation (i.e., contemplative), we are reposting this information about this book. Prior to posting this revisit article, we contacted Broadman and Holman, the … [Read more…]

Posted in: CHILDREN AT RISK!, Contemplative Denominations, Willow Creek/Hybels Tagged: awana, awana club, awanas, CHILDREN AT RISK!, contemplative prayer, Contemplative Spirituality, Ken Blanchard, spiritual formation, the beran call

Like We Said, Brian McLaren Wants the Minds of Your Children and Grandchildren

April 7, 2012 by Lighthouse Trails Editors

Three years ago, we wrote an article titled Brian McLaren’s Hope for the Future – The Minds of Your Grandchildren.   In that article, we stated: [I]n [Brian] McLaren’s book [Finding Our Way Again: The Return of the Ancient Practices] . . . he gives a detailed analysis of how the emerging church is God’s answer to a … [Read more…]

Posted in: CHILDREN AT RISK!, Christian Publishers/Bookstores, The Emerging Church Tagged: awana, awana club, awanas, Brian McLaren, CHILDREN AT RISK!, contemplative, Contemplative Spirituality, emerging church, The Emerging Church

Summer is Coming: Use Caution When Choosing Kids Camp or Vacation Bible School

May 18, 2009 by Lighthouse Trails Editors

If you are planning on sending your child(ren) to kid’s summer camp or Vacation Bible School this summer, please use caution and discernment. Find out if the program you are looking at is going to be including a spiritual formation program and if so, you should avoid such programs. Also be careful about receiving advice … [Read more…]

Posted in: Children and Meditation Tagged: awana, awana club, awanas

Contemplative Sightings, and Why We Should Be Concerned

January 11, 2009 by Lighthouse Trails Editors

  For seven years, Lighthouse Trails has been writing about and reporting on contemplative spirituality and how it has entered the Christian church. When we first began, with the publication of A Time of Departing, and then with ongoing research, we soon became aware that contemplative was much more widespread than what we had initially … [Read more…]

Posted in: Concerns for Calvary Chapel, Contemplative Denominations Tagged: awana, awana club, awanas

Awana Revisited: Is it or is it not promoting contemplative spirituality?

January 25, 2008 by Lighthouse Trails Editors

Nearly two years ago, Lighthouse Trails issued its first report that the Christian children’s club, Awana, may be heading toward contemplative. Since then, further evidence has come to the surface, and yet Awana leaders continue to deny that this is happening. Today, we received another email backing up their insistence that nothing is amiss. Thus, … [Read more…]

Posted in: Contemplative Organizations Tagged: awana, awana club, awanas

Comments on the AWANA Summit Conference

October 3, 2007 by Lighthouse Trails Editors

LTRP Note: Because Awanas now promotes contemplative spirituality, we are providing the comments below, which are from “Just the Book” wesite regarding the recent Awana Summit conference. If your children are involved with Awanas, we hope you will encourage the leaders of Awana to steer clear of contemplative spirituality and the emerging church. Parental Alert: … [Read more…]

Posted in: Spiritual Formation Tagged: awana, awana club, awanas

Message Bible for Little Kids Instructs on Contemplative Meditation

August 4, 2007 by Lighthouse Trails Editors

  This past spring NavPress released My First Message by Eugene Peterson. The book is meant to be a child’s first Bible. A product description of the book suggests that the contemplative practice called lectio divina is being utilized: It states: My First Message: A Devotional Bible for Kids uses the time-tested practice of lectio … [Read more…]

Posted in: CHILDREN AT RISK! Tagged: awana, awana club, awanas, children, Contemplative Spirituality, Eugene Peterson, the Message

Special Alert: Awana Embraces Contemplative Spirituality!

July 14, 2007 by Lighthouse Trails Editors

In February of 2006, Lighthouse Trails issued a report titled “Awana: Are They Heading Toward Contemplative/Emergent?” The concerns were over the organization’s connection with Willow Creek, with Awana’s interest in Spiritual Formation and with a recommended ministry list that included a number of contemplative/emergent organizations, including Youth Specialties.1 A year and a half later, Awana … [Read more…]

Posted in: CHILDREN AT RISK!, Spiritual Formation Tagged: awana, awana club, awanas

Awana Club Now Featuring Book by Youth Specialties Speaker

August 8, 2006 by Lighthouse Trails Editors

In February, we contacted Awana Club with concerns about their affiliation with and promotion of contemplative organizations such as Willow Creek, Youth Specialties, and Group Publishing. We later learned that there would be no changes made by Awana regarding these organizations. (You may read about this situation in our February news release.) Today, we have … [Read more…]

Posted in: Contemplative Denominations, Saddleback Tagged: awana, awana club, awanas

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