Category: —Nazarene Church

From a Former Nazarene to the Church of the Nazarene: Why Now Do You Practice These Things?

LTRP Note: Lighthouse Trails has been posting articles by Manny Silva for many years. Manny became part of a group called Concerned Nazarenes over fifteen years ago to warn the Church of the Nazarene denomination about the emergent movement and…

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Lighthouse Trails to Send Out 19th Mailing to Christian Pastors and Leaders

For seven years, Lighthouse Trails has been sending out topical booklets three times a year to a growing list of pastors and Christian leaders. This week, we will be sending out our final mailing of 2022 to Christian leaders &…

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New Booklet by Harry Ironside: My Conversion and My Journey Out of “the Holiness Movement”

My Conversion and My Journey Out of “the Holiness Movement” by Harry Ironside is our newest Lighthouse Trails Booklet. The booklet is 18 pages long and sells for $1.95 for single copies. Quantity discounts are available. Our booklets are designed…

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Letter to the Editor: Our Sad Departure From the Church of the Nazarene Over Unbiblical Teachings

LTRP Note: For over a decade, Lighthouse Trails has been issuing warnings regarding the Church of the Nazarene’s embracing of contemplative and emergent teachings (i.e., Spiritual Formation). We have focused largely on the numerous Nazarene universities that have been training…

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Letter to the Editor: To All Parents of Students Considering Attending Gordon College

LTRP Note: Since the inception of Lighthouse Trails in 2002, we have been researching and warning about what is happening in today’s Christian colleges, seminaries, and universities. The letter below from Manny Silva (co-founder of Concerned Nazarenes) (posted with his…

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Lilly Endowment’s Contemplative-Focused Clergy Renewal Program Updated Lists

In 2013, we posted an article titled “What’s Up with Lilly Endowment – Funding Pastoral Sabbaticals with a Contemplative Agenda.” Below is a copy of that article (with excerpts from a related 2007 article). In it, it provides a link…

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Christian Colleges and Seminaries in More Trouble Than Ever As Many Plunge Into Emergent Spirituality

For nearly 18 years, Lighthouse Trails has been reporting on the slide that evangelical colleges, universities, and seminaries have been taking into the contemplative/emergent/ecumenical river. It would be great if we could say there’s been a real turn around and…

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Letter to the Editor: My Christian University Professor Graded Harshly for Mentioning Lighthouse Trails

LTRP Note: The following letter to the editor is posted with permission. It is written by a graduate student of a Christian university. We find the professor’s remarks to this student provocative, especially considering what we discovered after reading the…

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“Contextualization” of the Gospel – A Free-Falling Catastrophe

By Roger Oakland You may not have heard the term before, but contextual theology is a prominent message from the emerging church. In his book, Models of Contextual Theology(1992), Stephen B. Bevans defines contextual theology as: . . . a…

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They Call It “Bibliolatry” (Bible Worship) – But Could it Be a Contemplative Smoke Screen?

In an article titled “How Evangelicals Became Over-Committed to the Bible and What Can Be Done About It,” Biola University professor J.P. Moreland says that  evangelical Christians are too committed to the Bible. He states: “In the actual practices of the Evangelical…

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Trevecca Nazarene University Continues To Promote Mystical Silence Instead of Biblical Prayer

By Manny Silva of Concerned Nazarenes “I am deepening in the mystical forms of prayer.” (Dan Boone) Thanks to the undiscerning “leadership” of President Dan Boone, Trevecca Nazarene students will have the opportunity to go on a mystical ride. Once…

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Evangelical Universities & Seminaries Offering Master of Arts in Spiritual Formation – Going into the Deeper Waters of Contemplative Spirituality

Over the past decade, while most evangelical colleges, seminaries, and universities have allowed the influence of the Spiritual Formation movement into their schools to one degree or another, not all of them had gone so far as to create a…

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