On October 14, 2014, Mark Driscoll, the senior pastor of Mars Hill Church in Seattle, Washington for the past 18 years, formally resigned from his position after numerous accusations came against him from former members and others. As is the case with most mega-church pastors these days when they do just about anything different than … [Read more…]
By Maria Kneas History shows us that as free nations become complacent, they become vulnerable to manipulation. Most dictatorships rise gradually—a step at a time. Smooth-talking politicians make each incremental step seem reasonable, because the masses are blind to the tides of change. We have been warned over and over. But sadly, a time comes … [Read more…]
The Dangerous Truth About the Social-Justice “Gospel” written by Mary Danielsen is our newest Lighthouse Trails Print Booklet. The Booklet is 18 pages long and sells for $1.95 for single copies. Quantity discounts are as much as 50% off retail. Below is the content of the booklet. To order copies of The Dangerous Truth About the … [Read more…]
By Penny Starr CNS News (CNSNews.com) – The Girl Scouts’ National Leadership Journeys program requires girls to embrace environmental justice, climate change and green energy in order to earn awards. The Journey Awards – “aimed at giving them the benefits of the Girl Scout “Keys to Leadership”: Discover, Connect, Take Action” – are described on … [Read more…]
LTRP Note: We first posted the following commentary in June 2010. We felt it was timely to post it again for those who have forgotten about it or for those who have not yet read it, especially in view of Jim Wallis’ SoJourner magazine’s endorsement of Brian McLaren’s new CANA Initiative, which we wrote about yesterday. … [Read more…]
LTRJ Note: Marianne Williamson is a high profile New Age author and activist who was made widely known by Oprah when Oprah promoted Williamson’s book A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles in A Course in Miracles ( A Course in Miracles is THE go-to book for New Agers.). Williamson later helped to launch a lobby group in … [Read more…]
Yesterday, we posted an article titled “Calvary Chapel Breached” by journalist Jim Fletcher. The article focused on a Calvary Chapel church (North Coast) in California and its invitation of a Palestinian man named Sami Awad. Fletcher’s article showed the implications of this invitation by Calvary Chapel and how this indicates the further move toward apostasy in … [Read more…]
By Carl Teichrib Forcing Change “What’s old is new again.” To some extent Agenda 21 fits this mold. Emanating from the 1992 United Nations Rio Earth Summit, officially known as the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), concerns were raised by political researchers during the mid-to-late 1990s about the dangers posed by federal … [Read more…]
Hitler used the same tactic when organizing the German church into an arm of the state. Quelling dissent among Christians and using pastors to bring their congregations into line with Third Reich policies actually enabled the Holocaust. by Mike Oppenheimer Let Us Reason Ministries Used with permission. Christians should be more aware than other people … [Read more…]
Today, we received an e-mail from Roger Oakland (Understand the Times), whom Lighthouse Trails and its readers have partnered with in the mission project in Kenya. In his e-mail, Roger said, “What is happening here is historical!” While many of the large evangelical mission organizations (World Vision, YWAM, etc) are becoming influenced by what we call the … [Read more…]
by Menno-Lite Are the Mennonites falling for Agenda 21 and Sustainable Development? It appears so… “Ministry Advantage offered me a variety of resources to help create sustainability in order to advance God’s kingdom…” -pastor Philip Vallelly, Winkler MB Church [MB pastors gain Canadian ‘advantage’?] “How can we mobilize creativity-in-community to fashion lives of simplicity and … [Read more…]
by Ray Yungen (from For Many Shall Come in My Name) Although the social/political element may not be overtly New Age in nature, it has served as a magnet for bringing together transformed New Agers and the socially concerned. Like the human potential movement, this segment grew out of the tumult of the 1960s when … [Read more…]
John Vidal Guardian UK (courtesy Understand the Times newsletter) Bolivia is set to pass the world’s first laws granting all nature equal rights to humans. The Law of Mother Earth, now agreed by politicians and grassroots social groups, redefines the country’s rich mineral deposits as “blessings” and is expected to lead to radical new conservation … [Read more…]
Paul Joseph Watson Outside news source Prominent nuclear and radiation expert Dr. Christopher Busby has slammed British global warming alarmist George Monbiot as being “criminally irresponsible” for writing a series of articles for the Guardian in which Monbiot downplays the threat of radiation from the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant in a bid to shore up … [Read more…]
LTRP Note: The following news story is posted for informational and research purposes only, not as an endorsement: A Greener Spirit: Evangelicals Embrace “Creation Care” by Austin Billings Change.org Perhaps the loudest evangelical voice on climate change is the Rev. Rich Cizik. Until December 2008, Cizik was the chief lobbyist for the National Association of … [Read more…]
by Robert Huff American Thinker (out of house news source) We live in an age of scientific hegemony (if I may borrow a term from the Marxists and feminists), where access to intellectual power and influence is granted to those who demonstrate their loyalty to the approved theories of the ruling elite. Scientists who refuse … [Read more…]
BY ROGER OAKLAND Understand the Times A message is burning in my heart. While I have not been active in ministry this past year because of what has been a “forced sabbatical,” I am thankful to report that God has raised me up from the brink of death. I thank God for His healing touch. Once more … [Read more…]
From Understand the Times A meeting held recently in Austria attended by the “elite,” has set in motion the agenda that will change the world until Jesus comes for His Church. (I Thessalonians 4:17). Expect three trends to happen helping fulfil this end-time plan: 1. The development of a global government. 2. The development of a global … [Read more…]
by Ray Yungen Although the Social/Political arena may not be overtly New Age in nature, it has served as a magnet for bringing together transformed New Agers and the socially concerned. Like the human potential movement, this segment grew out of the tumult of the 1960s when various civil rights movements sprang up from the … [Read more…]
by Carl Teichrib Forcing Change (courtesy Kjos Ministries) Points to Ponder About Christian Interfaith Involvement: 1) The interfaith approach is rationally directionless. If all religions are equally valid or hold some common level of spiritual authenticity, as the interfaith movement asserts, then all religions are ultimately baseless. Therefore, the nonbeliever can logically reject Christianity as … [Read more…]
UPDATE: July 1, 2010: Jim Wallis Points to Lighthouse Trails – Defends Position of Sojourners LTRP Note: On July 7-11, emergent-liberal leader, Jim Wallis, will be one of the speakers at Lifest 2010 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. After you read this article, you will understand why Lighthouse Trails and others are so concerned that evangelical ministries, … [Read more…]
by Bill Randles Believers in Grace Do you remember the social and moral revolution of the 1960s? The youth movement of the left was destined to break all the rules and liberate society from the dreary bondage of the past. They were going to show us how to do it the right way! As an … [Read more…]
The following letter was sent to Lighthouse Trails this week from a Houghton College alumni couple. Because of our ongoing research on the slide by many Christian schools into the contemplative/emerging camp, we are posting this letter with the couple’s permission. We hope it will help those of you who are trying to warn loved … [Read more…]
By Paul Proctor NewsWithViews.com Glenn Beck has certainly cut to the quick by reportedly saying: “social justice is a perversion of the Gospel,” adding, “I beg you, look for the words ‘social justice’ or ‘economic justice’ on your church Web site. If you find it, run as fast as you can. Social justice and economic … [Read more…]
by Carl Teichrib Forcing Change Knowing that this report cannot cover every issue, it is my hope that it will provide a general guide to areas of concern for 2010 and beyond. In other words, use this document as a launching pad to dig deeper into the trends and challenges. This report is subdivided into … [Read more…]
Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler took away religious freedoms in their countries. Many atheist groups, like the Freedom From Religion Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin, would like to take away Christian freedoms in the United States. UNDERGROUND RESEARCH (COMMUNIST, SOCIALIST PERSECUTIONS, NOT COUNTING WARS): Mao deaths 65 million, Lenin and Stalin deaths 25M, Hitler deaths 11M (6M … [Read more…]
To understand the politics behind the environmental movement and its persuasive propaganda, let’s look at the social ambitions that drive it. Its agenda was formed during the sixties, when four overlapping anti-establishment groups joined to form the Green Party in Germany: radical feminists, Marxists (the new Left), peace-niks (the anti-war movement), and hippies seeking spiritual … [Read more…]
by Paul Proctor News with Views Ignoring the danger won’t make it go away As many of you know, there is an enormous amount of potential calamity being announced online these days. I believe it’s there because there’s so little of it being revealed in the great puppet show we call the mainstream media. And, … [Read more…]
LTRP Note: Please read the following out-of-house article in conjunction with our October 19th posting, Is Obama Poised to Cede US Sovereignty?. By AFP Geneva – The World Council of Churches on Thursday called on churches around the world to ring their bells 350 times during the Copenhagen climate change summit on December 13 as … [Read more…]
“Thatcher adviser: Copenhagen goal is 1-world government ‘Global warming’ to be used as ‘pretext’ for ‘change’” By Jerome R. Corsi 2009 WorldNetDaily A former science adviser to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher says the real purpose of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen on Dec. 7-18 is to use global warming hype as … [Read more…]
