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Book Watch: Books With Contemplative and/or Emerging Elements

The following is just a sampling of the large numbers of “Christian” books that have contemplative and/or emerging affinities or elements. Life Wide Open by David Jeremiah The End of the Word … As We Know it by Chuck Smith Jr….

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Salvation Army Joins the Contemplative/Emerging Ranks

Salvation Army is now offering a full line of Spiritual Formation. Books “relevant to Spiritual Formation” include Celebration of Discipline by Richard Foster, The Barbarian Way by Erwin McManus, Spiritual Classics and Devotional Classics by Richard Foster and Divine Conspiracy…

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American Bible Society Goes Emergent

  The American Bible Society, an organization that has been around for nearly 200 years, has been respected and trusted by millions. However, it has just been brought to our attention that ABS’ online ministry For Ministry is promoting the…

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Just How Far Has Biola University Gone Into Contemplative

Biola University is the home to both Talbot School of Theology as well as the Institute of Spiritual Formation (a Department of Talbot). There is ample evidence to show that both Talbot and the Institute are promoting and teaching contemplative…

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The New Age in Religion

As the world watches on in fear and anxiousness over what is currently taking place in the Middle East, let us pray that the body of Christ throughout the world will continue to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with…

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Biola University … and Emerging Spirituality

For some time now, Biola University has been promoting contemplative spirituality. Biola’s Institute for Spiritual Formation teaches contemplative prayer, and Biola has a seat on the Board of Directors with the very contemplative Spiritual Formation forum. As is so often…

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BOOK NEWS … From Lighthouse Trails

“The rise of centering prayer is causing many churches to become agents of transformation. Those who practice it tend to embrace this one-world-religion idea.” – Ray Yungen, 1991, 1st Ed. For Many Shall Come in My Name As you may…

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Christian Man Practices Contemplative Prayer

  Dear Ray Yungen and Lighthouse Friends, My deepest thank-you for this website and the book, A Time of Departing. I have been a born again believer for six to seven years now and a youth leader for two. I…

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Purpose Driven Resisters – Must Leave or Die

The phone calls and emails started coming in about three years ago. Sometimes the caller was in his mid-eighties, sometimes the caller was crying. But all of them had the same kind of story to tell – when their churches…

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Will the Next Billy Graham Be a Mystic?

In a recent Chicago Sun-Times article, the headline reads, “The Next Billy Graham?” At first glance, someone like Rick Warren or Luis Palau (both of whom have been mentioned to take the place of Graham), might come to mind. But…

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Oprah Winfrey’s Spirituality

Ray Yungen Without question, the most influential practical mystic today is talk show host Oprah Winfrey. Her predominantly female audience, numbering in the tens of millions, looks to her as the source of spiritual inspiration?even more so than church, in…

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McLaren’s Position on Hell and Homosexuality

by Understand the Times with Roger Oakland Brian McLaren is viewed by many as a key leader of the Emerging Church Movement. The following interviews and the article will explain McLaren’s position on “hell” and “homosexuality”. Click here for interviews…

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