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Evangelical Covenant Church – Denomination Gone Contemplative

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…

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Mark Driscoll and Acts 29 Network – Promoting Contemplative

  Mark Driscoll, the president of Acts 29 Network, became part of the original Emergent team that Leadership Network brought together. In a Criswell Theological Seminary article, Driscoll stated: “In the mid-1990s I was a young church planter trying to…

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Musician John Michael Talbot and Father Thomas Keating

  John Michael Talbot is a musician. He is also a Catholic monk. Many years ago, I heard him at a concert where he and his brother Terry performed. There were no Catholic rituals and certainly no mention of meditation,…

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New Age Practices Escalating

  At Lighthouse Trails Research Project, we have watched various New Age Practices grow in popularity. We have tracked many of these practices through the Google search engine. While this is not a scientific method of study, it does reveal…

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Why Has Fox News Interviewed Rick Warren So Much Lately?

  Over the last several days, Fox News has highlighted Rick Warren on news articles and in television interviews. It was looking like a Rick Warren Week at Fox News. On August 11th, Fox headlines read, “Can Rick Warren Save…

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Global Peace Plans: Who Has Them and What’s the Difference Between Them?

  From New Ager Neale Donald Walsch (Conversations with God) to Robert Schuller to Rick Warren, leaders (both secular and religious) are talking about global peace plans. Most of them have certain elements in common. Take a look at some…

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Overlake Church and Revolution Conference

Recently we were contacted by a member of Overlake Church in Redmond, Washington who shared with us concerns about Overlake’s affinity with contemplative and emerging spiritualities. Overlake Church is a non-denominational church that states it “believes the Bible to be…

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BACK TO SCHOOL – Is Your College Student Safe?

Pretty soon, it is back to school, and thousands of teens and young adults will be flooding the doors of Christian colleges and seminaries. For nearly five years now, we have been researching Christian colleges and seminaries, have spoken to…

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Rick Warren Distorts the Instructions of Jesus to Fit His Global Peace Plan

On August 17th, acclaimed interviewer and broadcast journalist, Charlie Rose, interviewed Rick Warren. You may listen to this broadcast by clicking here. (You will have to let this file load.) In the interview, Rose and Warren discuss the Purpose Driven…

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Random House Buys Multnomah Publishers

This month, Random House publishers purchased the Oregon-based Multnomah Publishers. See Multnomah press release. Multnomah isn’t the first Christian publisher that is owned by a secular corporation. Random House also owns Waterbrook Press while Zondervan has been owned by Harper…

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Fox News: “Can Rick Warren Save the World?”

Every week I receive a copy of Rick Warren’s e-newsletter that goes out to pastors and other church and ministry leaders around the world. And every week, I watch as this newsletter endorses, promotes, and exalts the names of people,…

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Fox News: “Can Rick Warren Save the World?”

Every week I receive a copy of Rick Warren’s e-newsletter that goes out to pastors and other church and ministry leaders around the world. And every week, I watch as this newsletter endorses, promotes, and exalts the names of people,…

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