Dear Lighthouse Trails: I am enclosing some magazine articles put out by the Salvation Army during the summer of 2022. One of them is from Peer magazine that is for teenagers and college-age kids. The article from that magazine is about [the Catholic contemplative mystic] Henri Nouwen. The other article, “Meditation in Movement,” is from … [Read more…]
By Linda HarveyMission America So now even Playboy can’t help itself. A recent centerfold is a deceiver—a man pretending to be a woman. It’s Halloween costume season in America, where even decadent Playboy can’t keep its mission straight and features fake news, complete with fake body parts. You’ve probably noticed that a cultural revolution is in full … [Read more…]
For nearly seven years, Lighthouse Trails has been sending out topical booklets three times a year to a growing list of pastors and Christian leaders. This week and next week, we will be sending out our 18th mailing to Christian leaders & pastors. Our current list has nearly 1000 names. If you would like your … [Read more…]
In two recent Parker J. Cole Show podcast interviews, former New Age followers Richard and Linda Nathan discuss the growing interest in psychedelic drug use, even among Christians. From the Parker J. Cole Show: Psychedelics are growing in Christian circles. But are they giving believers a closer relationship with God, or tearing them further apart? … [Read more…]
LTRJP Note: The following is posted for informational purposes and to remember the families of the victims in prayer. By Jack PhillipsThe Epoch Times The identities of the 21 people, including 19 children, who were slain in a Texas school shooting on May 24 have been identified. Eva Mireles, 44, is one of two teachers killed in … [Read more…]
By Berit Kjos Today’s “progressive” emerging churches have little love for the old certainties that have grounded genuine Christians in God’s revealed truth for 2000 years. They say those precious guidelines don’t fit the new dialectic and collective ways of thinking. Today’s entertainment-driven Christians prefer “feel good” assurances stripped of unwanted references to sin, guilt, … [Read more…]
LTRP Note: This warning by former New Ager Johanna Michaelsen is also available as a Lighthouse Trails booklet, suitable to give to others. We also offer a special Halloween Give-Away Pack. The pack is only $2.75 and includes the booklet below plus two Gospel tracts (Tricky Treat and Heaven Is No Trick) and a Bible-verse coloring book. … [Read more…]
Dead Men Talking—Necromancy in Today’s Church by Warren B. Smith is our newest Lighthouse Trails Booklet. The booklet is 18 pages long and sells for $1.95 for single copies. Quantity discounts are available. Our Booklets are designed to give away to others or for your own personal use. Below is the content of this new … [Read more…]
Without the mystical connection, there can be no oneness. The second always follows the first. Here lies the heart of occultism. By Ray Yungen Many Christians might have great difficulty accepting the assessment that what is termed Christian mysticism is, in truth, not Christian at all. They might feel this rejection is spawned by a … [Read more…]
By Linda and Richard NathanFormer New Age followers and authors of The Glittering Web and Darkness Comes in Like a Flood It was 1962, and there was a sense of awakening in the air, a call to a different kind of life. Young people hearing the siren song were pouring into San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury District … [Read more…]
LTRP Note: The following interview between T.A. McMahon of The Berean Call and Carl Teichrib (author of Game of Gods) highlights the increase of drug use in our present culture. Tied in with the spiritual atmosphere of today where esoteric experiences are sought after by both secular and religious people and recreational marijuana is becoming … [Read more…]
LTRJ Note: The following is posted for informational and research purposes. By Heather ClarkeChristian News Network In an interview posted to social media, Black Lives Matter (BLM) Co-Founder Patrisse Cullors, along with BLM Los Angeles Co-Founder Melina Abdullah, discussed the “spiritual” component of the movement, explaining the practices and “rituals” performed to remember and “invoke” … [Read more…]
[I]f you were to jump off a cliff with the intent to fly saying the word “fly, fly, fly” as you jump off and someone else jumped off the same cliff with the intent to hit the bottom saying “fall, fall, fall” as he jumps off, in either case both will hit the bottom. – Ray … [Read more…]
NEW BOOKLET: Public School or Homeschool?—How Public Schools Are Corrupting Children’s Values by Maria Kneas and Berit Kjos is our newest Lighthouse Trails Booklet.* The Booklet is 18 pages long and sells for $1.95 for single copies. Quantity discounts are available. Our Booklets are designed to give away to others or for your own personal … [Read more…]
By Chris LawsonSpiritual Research Network Christian sounding devotional books with striking similarities to psychic-medium channeled material? New Age/New Spirituality/occult concepts and buzzwords? Blasphemous names, titles, and self-descriptions from a counterfeit “Christ”—in relation to himself? Messages from Sarah Young’s “Jesus” that wants his readers to experience his “Presence” and go through lengthy and intensive “training” so … [Read more…]
Nanci Des Gerlaise is a First Nations Canadian Cree woman who is the daughter and granddaughter of medicine men. Growing up, her life was filled with the practices and mystical experiences brought on from Native Spirituality. Today, as a born-again Christian, Nanci warns of these dangers as she sees many of her Native American Christian … [Read more…]
Readers of A. J. Russell’s God Calling books and Sarah Young’s Jesus Calling series may reject the idea of becoming a medium, channel, or psychic if it is put plainly before them. However, if it is introduced indirectly through Christian-sounding devotions, and if the spirit being channeled is called “Jesus,” they might be more receptive.—BNES … [Read more…]
By Nanci Des Gerlaise (author of Muddy Waters: an insider’s view of North American Native Spirituality) Dream catchers—those spidery “sacred hoops” with feathers. They originated with the Ojibwa tribe during the ’60s and ’70s, supposedly to protect a sleeper by “catching” bad dreams or evil spirits. Then they caught on with other tribes and spread … [Read more…]
LTRP Note: This warning by former New Ager Johanna Michaelsen is available as a Lighthouse Trails booklet, suitable to give to others. By Johanna Michaelsen It was the night of Halloween, and ironically, I was working on a chapter about Halloween for my book Like Lambs to the Slaughter: Your Child and the Occult when … [Read more…]
LTRP Note: In 2018, Lighthouse Trails Publishing released a booklet by Linda Nathan titled The Cross and the Marijuana Leaf. In the following out-of house-article, a doctor discusses a recently released book, Tell Your Children; The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence. Because of the fast-growing acceptance in many states now of legal recreational-use marijuana, this … [Read more…]
Dear Lighthouse Trails: I wanted to write and share with you yet another example of church leadership embracing New Age methods. Recently, an acquaintance on Facebook posted a link to an Enneagram chart happily reporting her number and encouraging others to contact her if they want to know more about the Enneagram. What concerned me … [Read more…]
On November 15th, Lighthouse Trails posted an article titled “What You Need to Tell Your Local Public School Officials About Children and Mindfulness Meditation”which stated that a woman who called the LT office shared her concerns about her local public school that was going to be bringing in a program to teach children mindfulness meditation. … [Read more…]
LTRP Note: The following news story is posted for informational and research purposes and not as an endorsement of the source or the content. It is also a reminder that young people today desperately need to hear the true biblical Gospel of Jesus Christ. By Kari Paul Marketwatch When Coco Layne, a Brooklyn-based producer, meets … [Read more…]
By Ray Yungen God’s Desire Just what exactly is God’s desire for mankind? Does He want to send people to Hell? Does He want anyone to live eternally without Him? Scripture is very clear about this when it says: The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering … [Read more…]
LTRP Note: We are hearing more and more reports about evangelical churches embracing Yoga. If your church is entertaining the idea of introducing Yoga classes to the church or if you know of a local church that is doing this, please give that pastor a copy of this booklet and ask him to reconsider. To … [Read more…]
With the sound of their new school bell, the fifth graders at Piedmont Avenue Elementary School here closed their eyes and focused on their breathing, as they tried to imagine “loving kindness” on the playground.1—New York Times By Berit Kjos During a flight delay in Chicago in the late nineties, I spent my time browsing … [Read more…]
By Ray Yungen The Bible says that in the last days, many will come in Christ’s name. If one examines the “prophecies” of occulist Alice Bailey, one can gain insight into what the apostle Paul called in 2 Thessalonians 2:3 the falling away. Bailey eagerly foretold of what she termed “the regeneration of the churches.”1 Her … [Read more…]
LTRP Note: While this new booklet by Lois Putnam might not be of interest to everyone of our readers, we believe it is a vitally important tool for parents, grandparents, and teens who are trying to figure out whether Pokémon or Pokémon GO is OK or not from a spiritual standpoint. NEW BOOKLET: A Christian … [Read more…]
NEW BOOKLET:HALLOWEEN! A Warning to Christian Parents by Johanna Michaelsen is our newest Lighthouse Trails Booklet Tract. The Booklet is 16 pages long and sells for $1.95 for single copies. Quantity discounts are as much as 50% off retail. Our Booklets are designed to give away to others or for your own personal use. Below … [Read more…]
LTRP Note: For those who think that shamanism is a far cry from the contemplative mysticism being practiced in the church today and that this warning has nothing to do with Christians, think again. The realms reached are the same, and the results can be the same too. By Nanci Des Gerlaise (author of Muddy … [Read more…]
