By Bob DeWaay Imagine a world where the polarity of time is reversed so that history moves backward toward Paradise rather than forward toward judgment. Consider a world in which God is so immanently involved in the creation that He is undoing entropy1 and recreating the world now through processes already at work. Think of … [Read more…]
By Jan Markell Olive Tree Ministries and Radio Broadcast Used with permission. What nation could be “apartheid on steroids”? Surely some Islamic stronghold, right? Wrong. Try Israel. That’s according to World Vision’s Steve Haas writing for the Lausanne Movement. Haas goes on to suggest that all the problems of the Palestinian people perpetrated upon them … [Read more…]
By Dr. Harry Ironside In the eighth chapter of the Epistle of the Romans, reading from verse 18, we have the words: “For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth … [Read more…]
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 Jan Markell Olive Tree Ministries Today, one of the greatest seductions is that there could be world peace if only the Palestinians had a homeland. The film that came out in 2010 titled With God On Our Side is aimed at changing the end-time views of evangelicals and the theology that says the Jews … [Read more…]
Lighthouse Trails authors Warren B. Smith and Ray Yungen were speakers at this year’s Berean Call Conference along with UK Paul Wilkinson. Below are two videos of Paul’s talk, “Israel in the Line of Fire.” Part 1 Part 2
By Bill Randles And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold … [Read more…]
By Tony Pearce Light For the Last Days Ministries (UK) David Cameron, visiting Israel on March 19th, urged the Israelis and Palestinians ‘to take the final difficult steps towards peace. The prize could be great: a stable, prosperous Middle East with a sovereign and viable Palestinian state living in peace alongside a secure Israel at … [Read more…]
LTRP Note: We post this article to help bring understanding regarding the events taking place around the world today from a biblical point of view. We want to also say that God loves the Arab people and desires to see them come to repentance and salvation as He desires for all people. But the Bible … [Read more…]
LTRP Note: This is part 2 of this series. To read part 1, click here. By Menno-lite In the last half of his plenary talk at a FOSNA conference this April in Portland, Oregon, in his case to prove that Christians are responsible for creating the injustice that currently exists in Palestine, Brian McLaren went … [Read more…]
By Warren B. Smith For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.—2 Peter 1:16 Self-described “futurist” and “conscious evolutionist” Barbara Marx Hubbard writes that in 1966 she heard an “inner voice” that came in … [Read more…]
LTRP Note: Prior to reading the commentary below, please take a look at our 2012 statement titled “What Does Lighthouse Trails Believe About Israel?.” We have posted the article below to show that a paradigm shift is taking place within evangelical Christianity that will result in further apostasy among proclaiming Christians. When you couple the … [Read more…]
By Steve Blackwell Indywatchman Blog Some things are worth repeating. Dave Hunt wrote a book twenty years ago called A Woman Rides the Beast that needs to be revisited. I have friends who have joined the Catholic Church because they were seeking religion, and they have, without a doubt, found the ultimate religion. In Dave’s … [Read more…]
By Mike Oppenheimer Let Us Reason Ministries We have been hearing from a number of people on four Blood (red) Moons for 2014, making it is a unique and significant event. We are told the first of these four Blood Moons is to occur on Passover (Pesach) 2014 and through October (Sukkot) 2015. We are … [Read more…]
On February 21st and 22nd, Multnomah University (formerly called Multnomah School of the Bible) in Portland, Oregon, once considered a biblically-based evangelical school, will be hosting the simulcast Justice Conference with speakers Lynn Hybels and Jim Wallis (both emergent leaders who are part of the “Christian Palestinian” movement). Other emergents such as N.T. Wright will … [Read more…]
By Sandy Simpson Deception in the Church 2 Thessalonians 2:9-12 The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie, and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because … [Read more…]
Lighthouse Trails is now carrying Caryl Matrisciana’s extraordinary new DVD titled Exposing Christian Palestinianism. Lighthouse Trails editors have reviewed this powerful film, which explains what “Christian Palestinianism” is and identifies key Christian leaders who are strongly promoting this anti-Semitic, anti-biblical movement that is gaining fast ground within the evangelical church. We do not have the … [Read more…]
Note: While the camera quality of this video is not up to the standards we normally present, Mike’s material is essential thus we are presenting a preview of this lecture. To purchase this entire lecture in DVD format, click here.
We have to be prepared to take the security measures necessary for our immediate protection. . . .The answer is to promote views that are open-minded and tolerant towards those who are different, and to fight the formal, informal and internet propagation of closed-minded intolerance.” – Tony Blair The following article (below) written by Tony Blair illustrates … [Read more…]
Corban University of Salem, Oregon used to be called Western Baptist College. It used to be a Christian college that did not promote contemplative spirituality or the emerging church, and it used to be on the Lighthouse Trails “good” Christian colleges list (colleges that don’t promote Spiritual Formation). But that was then, and today is … [Read more…]
Not only are there political quests being achieved through the indoctrination of these young people, but these young followers are becoming convinced that a socialistic religion-killing society is the only solution for man. Jeff Bethke, the 24-year-old man who did the anti-religion YouTube video in 2012, is back in the news again. This time, he has a book about his subject … [Read more…]
By Patrick Goodenough CNS News (CNSNews.com) – After shunning the U.N.’s flagship human rights body for the past 17 months and defying it over a scheduled review of its rights record, Israel backed down on Sunday and agreed to take part, after coming under pressure from Western governments worried about the precedent its boycott was … [Read more…]
By Tony Pearce In the prophecy of Daniel mentioned in our article “The Fall of the Second Temple,” it says that Messiah will come before the destruction of the second Temple and that following his coming there will be wars and desolations. This of course does not square with the majority view of Messiah in … [Read more…]
LTRP Note: Worth noting, Rick Warren is coming out with a new book, The Daniel Plan, on December 3rd. He is co-authoring the book with two of the Daniel Plan New Age advocates, Dr. Daniel Amen and Dr. Mark Hyman (see our related articles below UTT’s headlines for this week). Weekly News in Review with … [Read more…]
by Roger Oakland (Understand the Times) If you haven’t already noticed, anti-Christian sentiment is growing toward those who believe in a biblical last days/Book of Revelation scenario prior to Christ’s return. A 2005 article titled “Lutheran leader calls for an ecumenical council to address growing biblical fundamentalism” should help convince you. The article shows not … [Read more…]
By Ray Yungen I believe the Bible contains an important passage, which clearly indicates a change of times and seasons may indeed be at hand. In Matthew 24:3-5, which is a chapter dealing with the tribulation period, Jesus spoke these words to His disciples concerning the signs of His coming and the end of the … [Read more…]
Emerging/emergent spirituality continues making serious inroads into Christianity. Churches and Christian colleges, unaware of the subtle undermining of such spirituality, are embracing teachers and leaders of this movement and pointing others to them. Often they are unaware of what these teachers really believe and teach. Mike Erre (pastor of the First Evangelical Free Church of Fullerton … [Read more…]
By Paul Proctor Free-lance writer Used with permission. Country singer, Lee Greenwood wrote and recorded a very powerful and inspiring song many years ago that has all but become the new unofficial national anthem of the United States of America. The lyrics to God Bless The USA begin this way: If tomorrow all the things … [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…]
LTRP Update: After posting this article on Facebook, the question arose as to whether Sami Awad was actually going to be speaking at North Coast Calvary Chapel. To help alleviate any doubts, we are attaching a photo copy of North Coast’s webpage showing Awad’s appearance: click here. The event will be taking place on May 10th. … [Read more…]
