Dear Lighthouse Trails Reader: This is our last Special Report for 2010. It may be the most important article we have written all year. It is long and detailed, but we hope you will take the time to read it. Please consider distributing it to those in your own mailing lists who may be interested … [Read more…]
By Penny Starr (Out of house article for informational purposes) (CNSNews.com) –Planned Parenthood received $363.2 million in government grants and contracts during its 2008-2009 fiscal year, according to the organization’s annual report. That was up from $349.6 million in FY2007-08. According to a fact sheet on Planne Parenthood’s Web site, the organization performed 324,008 abortion in calender year 2008. That was up from 305,310 in 2007 … [Read more…]
According to an article written by the “guru” of Reiki, William Lee Rand, the popularity of Reiki (and other energy healing techniques) is growing by leaps and bounds and is becoming common in many US hospitals. “At hospitals and clinics across America, Reiki is beginning to gain acceptance as a meaningful and cost-effective way to … [Read more…]
LTRP Note: Cecil Andrews of Take Heed wrote this article six years ago – perhaps it is more relevant today than when it was first written.* by Cecil Andrews Take Heed Ministries When you go into any modern ‘Christian’ bookstore it will be virtually impossible not to be confronted at some point by books written … [Read more…]
The “Gay Christian Network” will be hosting their annual Mountain Top Experience conference in January 2011. According to their website, contemplative/emerging Christianity Today editor Philip Yancey will be this year’s key note speaker: (click here). Little needs to be said here, but as Roger Oakland pointed out in his book Faith Undone, one of the propensities … [Read more…]
by Berit Kjos “When we first started ‘Harry Potter’ and cast 10-year-old Daniel Radcliffe in the title role, parents drove their 10-year-olds to see the movies. Today, those same kids are now driving themselves to the midnight shows.”[1] Dan Fellman, Warner Brothers “In a chilling performance by Ralph Fiennes, the [Voldemort] character plays out like … [Read more…]
by Berit Kjos Kjos Ministries A review of this mystical book series for children and youth Halloween comes and goes, but the Ga’Hoole owls — with their legends, divination, ghosts, and “hagsfiends” — call for an all-year warning. These guardians fit right into the world’s history of pagan myths and mystical “seers,” and their adventures … [Read more…]
LTRP Note: We post this Associated Press article because at Lighthouse Trails we care about children. One brave man who was not afraid to become involved saved this girl’s life. We must ask ourselves, are we brave enough to become involved when we see emerging/contemplative heresy being taught to children in our churches? It may … [Read more…]
By Scott Bronstein CNN Special Investigations Unit MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin – Terry Kohut has kept a dark secret for nearly 50 years. Now he is breaking his silence, becoming a key figure in the sex-abuse crisis in the Catholic Church and the growing controversy over what Pope Benedict XVI did about it. When Kohut was barely … [Read more…]
LTRP Note: The following article is written by child advocate Dr. Judith Reisman. Dr. Reisman is one of the featured speakers in the DVD we carry, The Kinsey Syndrome. Exclusive: Judith Reisman compares UNICEF to ‘fox guarding chicken coop’ By Judith Reisman Consider the recent WND report on Scotland’s opening up internet pornography to school … [Read more…]
LTRP Note: This particular pregnancy center has been getting Lighthouse Trails books and DVDS for a number of years as they are trying to help the girls in trouble to not only save their babies from abortions but also to have spiritual understanding of the times in which we live. We hope you will consider donating a … [Read more…]
From Roger Oakland of Understand the Times On August 5,2010, it will be nine years since our son Bryce suddenly passed from this world to his eternal home in heaven. Not a day goes by that we don’t think of him and long for his presence. He was twenty-seven when he left us. If he … [Read more…]
Posted to follow up yesterday’s article on teens using digital sounds to engage in esoteric experiences. by Larry DeBruyn On music’s ability to engender mystical experiences. “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.” … [Read more…]
LTRP Note: The following article describes how teens are “getting high” from listening to certain high frequency digital sounds on the Internet. Basically, what is happening is the sounds are being used as a mantra to take listeners into altered states of consciousness, similar to drug use or contemplative/centering prayer (i.e., eastern meditation). It was the contemplative … [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…]
LTRP Note: We believe the following commentary is thought-provoking and useful in further understanding the methods of the new spirituality. Keep in mind that a growing number of Christian musicians are becoming involved in the contemplative emerging movement. By Ellen Pope Free-Lance Writer A Commentary Maybe you’ve noticed the difference on some of the Christian radio stations … [Read more…]
BY Nicole Winfield Associated Press VATICAN CITY – More than 100,000 people filled St. Peter’s Square on Sunday in a major show of support for Pope Benedict XVI over the clerical sex abuse scandal. Benedict said he was comforted by such a “beautiful and spontaneous show of faith and solidarity” and again denounced what he … [Read more…]
by John Lanagan My Word Like Fire Ministries In the second prominent defection from the Jim Wallis engineered Covenant for Civility, Bishop Harry Jackson has asked for his name to be stricken from the document. Jackson now joins Assemblies of God General Superintendent George O. Wood in taking this stand. “I don’t want to be … [Read more…]
We would like to ask our Lighthouse Trails readers to pray for two serious situations. First, please pray for a young missionary couple, Daniel and Janette, and their 16 month old son. They are serving in Guatemala at a mission school. Janette, an RN, and their little son have both contracted Scarlet Fever, and doctors … [Read more…]
by Ingrid Schlueter CrossTalk Operation Rescue reports on the hate messages they have been receiving from child-killing fans since the passage of the health care bill. Wichita, KS – Telephones at Operation Rescue’s national headquarters were inundated with hateful messages in the wake of the weekend vote on health care in the House of Representatives. … [Read more…]
LTRP Note: In July 2008, Lighthouse Trails wrote an article titled “The New Age Comes to the Girl Scouts.” In that article, we showed that the Girl Scouts organization had formed a formal partnership with a very New Age group called “the Ashland Initiative.” If indeed Girl Scouts leaders have an agenda to emphasize immoral sexual conduct for … [Read more…]
Note: See related articles on this ongoing story below video. ABC News Lynchburg, VA – Friends of Lisa Miller say they don’t know where she and her seven-year-old daughter are, but they say they support her decision to leave. A Vermont court ordered Miller’s ex-partner Janet Jenkins custody of their daughter in May, and now … [Read more…]
By Peter J. Smith LifeSiteNews.com SAN FRANCISCO – The US Supreme Court has rejected the appeal of a Texas mother challenging her former lesbian partner’s claim to be the second parent of her daughter, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. Kristina S. had conceived her now six-year-old daughter Amalia through artificial insemination during her domestic partnership … [Read more…]
by John Lanagan My Word Like Fire And so it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment. (Hebrews 9:27) There were approximately sixty people in the theatre watching New Moon, the sequel to the vampire blockbuster, Twilight. Three quarters of the viewers were female, and most of them ranged in age … [Read more…]
by Jan Markell Olive Tree Ministries I was planning to write about a current event issue when this story hit my in-box. I am no longer shocked by issues like what I am about to report. Our kids and teens have been seduced for decades. Harry Potter hasn’t helped nor has Twilight. Both kids and … [Read more…]
Chad Groening – OneNewsNow The head of a Christian ministry dedicated to exposing the truth about Islam says she’s not surprised that the Muslim parents of a Christian convert from Islam have decided to backtrack on an agreement that allows their daughter to stay with foster parents until her 18th birthday. As previously reported, Ohio authorities recently announced … [Read more…]
LTRP Note: Many Christian parents see nothing wrong with the Harry Potter series. Unfortunately, Harry Potter does not point young readers to the Gospel but rather to the darkness of the occult. The Harry Potter theme park will undoubtedly be visited by millions of children and young teens. The Telegraph Clearly visible is the iconic … [Read more…]
LTRP Note: Lighthouse Trails has now spoken with Liberty Counsel, the legal defense for Lisa Miller. For those who would like to financially help with Lisa and Isabella’s legal defense, please send contributions to Liberty Counsel and earmark checks for Lisa Miller. You can also contribute directly online on their website. Please continue praying for … [Read more…]
Sam Lister, Health Editor The Times (UK) (courtesy Underground News US) Pupils at a leading public school are to receive weekly 40-minute classes in meditation and stress relief in a ground-breaking addition to the school curriculum. Schoolboys aged 14 and 15 at Tonbridge School, in Kent, were given their first lesson yesterday as part of … [Read more…]
LTRP Note: Lighthouse Trails has now spoken with Liberty Counsel, the legal defense for Lisa Miller. For those who would like to financially help with Lisa and Isabella’s legal defense, please send contributions to Liberty Counsel and earmark checks for Lisa Miller. You can also contribute directly online on their website. Please continue praying for … [Read more…]
