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Lighthouse Trails Sending Out 10th Mailing to Christian Leaders and Pastors

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Since January 2016, Lighthouse Trails has been mailing out small booklet packs to Christian leaders and pastors three times a year. This week, we will be sending our 10th mailing. Since we began the mailings, we have added the names of numerous pastors and ministry leaders, many of whom were sent to us from our readers. Our current list is at 205 names. If you would like your pastor to begin receiving these mailings, please send his name and church mailing address to us at editors@lighthousetrails.com.

Letter to the Editor: The New Age/New Spirituality in Christian & Missionary Alliance Forced Me to Leave

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LTRP Note: The following letter to the editor was written in response to our recent post “Letter to the Editor: Yoga at Our CMA Church in Canada Broke Our Hearts.” Dear Lighthouse Trails: I too was once in a C&MA church in Southwestern Ontario. I attended from 1999 to 2001. I witnessed the whole shift … [Read more…]

Navigators Welcomes 2019 With Their Contemplative Trend By Promoting Jesuit Prayer Practice

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Navigators is a Christian organization, founded in 1933 by a young man named Dawson Trotman, that eventually became a household name in the evangelical church.* The Navigators motto is, “To Know Christ and to Make Him Known.” However, Navigators and its publishing arm NavPress have been on a contemplative trend for over 15 years, and … [Read more…]

The Message “Bible” Removes Salvation from Romans 10:13

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LTRP Note: The Message “Bible” written by the late Eugene Peterson is widely quoted by pastors and other Christian leaders. For many years, Lighthouse Trails has tried to show that this paraphrase of God’s Word should not be used (as it so often is) as God’s Word, and in fact, is a distortion of God’s … [Read more…]

RNS Interview Reveals The Message Author Eugene Peterson Changes Mind About “Gay” Issues/Marriage

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LTRP Note: The following news story from Religion News Service is posted for informational and research purposes and not as an endorsement of the source or the content. The Message “Bible” has had a huge impact on Christianity. Famous pastors, like Rick Warren, have quoted from it extensively, which has played a huge role in … [Read more…]

How to Find a Bible-Believing Church

We have often been asked, “How do I find a good Bible-believing church?” There are many believers who are struggling to find one in their own communities. To start with, we usually recommend they make phone calls to potential churches and ask a few concise questions such as: “Do you have a Spiritual Formation program … [Read more…]

The New Age Implications of The Message “Bible’s” “As Above, So Below”

By Warren B. Smith Author of A “Wonderful” Deception One of the many examples of the New Age implications of The Message [“Bible”]  is seen in Eugene Peterson’s paraphrasing of the Lord’s Prayer. Where most translations read “on [or in] earth, as it is in heaven,” Peterson inserts the occult/New Age phrase “as above, so below.” … [Read more…]

Letter to the Editor: “Booted Out Harshly” From My Church

Dear Lighthouse Trails: I really appreciate all of you at LHTs. Thank you and God bless each one of you.  I went through a very difficult period  when attending  Calvary Chapel __________.  I was very uncomfortable with what they were permitting and promoting. I was very distressed. I had concerns about The Message bible, Billy … [Read more…]

Bono Meets With “The Message” Author Eugene Peterson

The following is posted for informational and research purposes and not as an endorsement. The video is part of a new film project by the emergent Fuller Theological Seminary. To him who has ears to hear, let him hear.   Related Information: NEW BOOKLET TRACT: The Message “Bible”— A Breach of Truth The New Age … [Read more…]

NEW BOOKLET: Be Still and Know That You are Not God!—God is Not “in” Everyone and Everything

Be Still and Know That You are Not God!—God is Not “in” Everyone and Everything by Warren B. Smith is our newest Lighthouse Trails Booklet. 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 … [Read more…]

NEW BOOKLET: The Message “Bible”— A Breach of Truth

The Message “Bible”— A Breach of Truth by John Lanagan is our newest Lighthouse Trails Print Booklet Tract. The Booklet Tract is 14 pages long and sells for $1.95 for single copies. Quantity discounts are as much as 50% off retail. Our Booklet Tracts are designed to give away to others or for your own personal … [Read more…]

Question: How to Find a Biblical Teaching Church?

Dear Lighthouse Trails: Can you recommend how to find a biblical teaching church that is not on the contemplative/emergent/Acts 29 path? My husband and I are feeling so unsettled about how these movement seem to be creeping in to all the churches in our area including the one that we are members at. Any suggestions … [Read more…]

Rick Warren’s New Book, The Daniel Plan, Receives Media Blitz—But Book Does Double-Speak on Eastern-Style Meditation

On Sunday, December 1st, 32 million homes (and 63 million readers)1 in America received the following issue of Parade newspaper-insert magazine: The subtitle on the cover of this issue of the “most widely read magazine in America”2 reads: Rick Warren—One of America’s most influential pastors delivers a life-changing message on the connection between getting healthy and doing … [Read more…]

The New Age Implications of The Message “Bible’s” “As Above, So Below”

By Warren B. Smith Author of A “Wonderful” Deception One of the many examples of the New Age implications of The Message [“Bible”]  is seen in Eugene Peterson’s paraphrasing of the Lord’s Prayer. Where most translations read “on [or in] earth, as it is in heaven,” Peterson inserts the occult/New Age phrase “as above, so below.” … [Read more…]

Chuck Swindoll – Still Pointing to Henri Nouwen – Confusing Message Being Sent

Just this week, on Swindoll’s website in an article he wrote, “Segments of Solitude,” he is again pointing his readers toward Henri Nouwen. (article from p. 14 of Swindoll’s book, Wisdom for the Way) In 2011, a caller told Lighthouse Trails she had heard that Chuck Swindoll said he wants to “get back to Bible basics.”  We told … [Read more…]

The Message “bible” inserts earth reverence, God of “green” hope

By John Lanagan My Word Like Fire Ministries Oh! May the God of green hope fill you up with joy, fill you up with peace, so that your believing lives, filled with the life-giving energy of the Holy Spirit, will brim over with hope. (Bold mine) (The Message, Romans 15:13) Huh? What God of “green” … [Read more…]

Bible Study Fellowship Women Respond to Lighthouse Trails Article

The following comments were received after our recent article, Is BSF (Bible Study Fellowship) Heading in the Contemplative Direction?. We have used substitute names for these women (all who have been personally involved with BSF), so as to protect their privacy, but the letters are real letters from real people. Many of these women are BSF teachers … [Read more…]

Message Bible for Little Kids Instructs on Contemplative Meditation

  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…]