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According to the Assemblies of God USA mission statement, they are committed “to personal spiritual growth and discipleship,” saying “Spiritual formation brings glory to our Creator and Savior and validates our witness to the world. We will use every effective…
Lutzer, Falwell, and Kennedy Endorse Contemplative Promoting Book Trusted Christian leaders, ones many would never suspect, have endorsed a book by contemplative proponent Larry Crabb, a “spiritual director” for the American Association of Christian Counselors (AACC) and a popular Christian…
Today’s Wall Street Journal article, “Veneration Gap – A Popular Strategy For Church Growth Splits Congregants,” written by WSJ reporter Suzanne Sataline, was based on interviews that Ms. Sataline had with many people, including an editor at Lighthouse Trails and…
If you’ve ever taken a journalism class in college, you were probably told that the media has a very powerful influence. You may have been told that the media can even start and stop wars. Well in the world of…
On September 28th, Shadow Mountain Community Church (David Jeremiah’s church) will present the Men’s Ministry Super Summit conference. The conference speakers include Greg Laurie, a Calvary Chapel pastor who recently opposed Calvary Chapel’s decision to reject Purpose Driven teachings and…
The Desiring God 2006 National Conference, to be held on September 29th, will be addressing “the Supremacy of Christ in a postmodern world.” According to John Piper, founder of the Desiring God ministries, speakers for the national conference are “eager…
On August 28th, we posted an article titled “American Family Association News Promotes Lectio Divina – AFA Sells the Book!” The article explained how Agape Press (a division of AFA) posted a favorable book review on a book that promoted…
Contemplative terms always seem to be changing. What is called one thing today may be exchanged for a new term tomorrow. A new term for “Spiritual Direction” is “Soul Care.” In Biola University’s Masters program, Spiritual Formation and Soul…
Richard Foster (on his Renovare website) has his own list of Spiritual Formation programs. We thought you might want to take a look at this. The list includes several Christian colleges and seminaries, including Bethel, Fuller, George Fox and…
Baker Books seemed to be one of the few larger Christian publishing houses that had not jumped with both feet on the contemplative/emerging bandwagon. That all may be changing however. With their new release of James Wakefield’s book on lectio…
Is Rick Warren promoting contemplative spirituality? We believe the answer to that is a wholehearted “yes.” The first clue came many years ago in Warren’s first book,The Purpose Driven Church, where he said that the Spiritual Formation movement had…
The Evangelical Covenant Church began in the late 1880s “in the biblical instruction of the Lutheran State Church of Sweden, and in the great spiritual awakenings of the nineteenth century.” The denomination has ministries on five continents and claims that…