Lighthouse Trails—Bringing light to areas of darkness in the world and in the church

Former New Ager Warren B. Smith presents a lecture video on his YouTube channel called Antichrist’s NewAge/New Gospel. This New Gospel will most likely be the deceptive leaven that will unite all the world’s religions one day. Examples are given on how this New Age/New Gospel leaven...

LTRP Note: This letter to the editor was written to us this past weekend. I can identify somewhat with [the LT May 5, 2025 article warning about Yoga]. Want to share part of my testimony but can’t do so without...

LTRP Note: The following is posted for informational and research purposes. For many years, Lighthouse Trails has been reporting on public schools that have been making students participate in meditation practices (including mindfulness), often unbeknownst to parents. This class-action settlement...

LTRP Note: The following is posted for informational and research purposes. By Bob UnruhWorldNetDaily As cardinal in Catholic church, Prevost had adopted pro-illegal alien agenda. When Robert Prevost, a Chicago archbishop for the Catholic church, this week was picked to...

YogaFaith is an organization that has been around for more than a decade that teaches and promotes what they call "Christian Yoga." However, as Lighthouse Trails has shown for many years, there is no such thing as Christian Yoga. It's...

A Lighthouse Trails booklet. By David Dombrowski When I was a boy, about eight years old, a stranger in a Safeway grocery store parking lot gave my mother a plaque he had cast of plaster of paris that bore the...

Dear Friends at Lighthouse Trails: At 86, my days here under the sun are waning, and that's fine with me. I don't make plans for the future—my future is secure in my Lord and Savior Jesus. But I'm really writing...

(photo: istockphoto.com; used with permission) LTRP Note: On April 21, 2025, Pope Francis died. The following news story is posted for informational and research purposes. By Jerusalem Post Staff Pope Francis became increasingly vocal in condemning Israel’s war against Hamas...

Lighthouse Trails is pleased to release our latest topical booklet The Catholic Mass versus The Lord's Supper by Harry Ironside. The booklet is 18 pages long and sells for $1.95 for single copies. Quantity discounts are available. Our booklets are designed...

LTRP Note: For several years now, Lighthouse Trails has received letters from many women who have been involved with BSF (Bible Study Fellowship). Each one expressed a concern that the organization once taught God's Word but over the last decade...

"I have undergone a massive shift in regard to my faith in Jesus. The popular phrase for this is 'deconstruction,' the biblical phrase is 'falling away.' By all the measurements that I have for defining a Christian, I am not...

Dear Lighthouse Trails: In your last e-mail newsletter, you showed us the covers of three upcoming books. And I'm concerned about one of them. It's Calvinism: None Dare Call It Heresy, which exposes some serious problems with Calvinism. I am...

By the Editors at Lighthouse Trails From the Appendix from Bob Kirkland's book, Calvinism: None Dare Call It Heresy No subject ever discussed can be more important and crucial in this life than the subject of salvation. This is what...

[caption id="attachment_18950" align="alignright" width="326"] Francis Chan in 2016 being prayed for by IHOP's Mike Bickle[/caption] A recent YouTube video that has been viewed over 50,000 times thus far* of highly prolific and popular Christian author and speaker Francis Chan creates...

Dear Lighthouse Trails: I would like to thank you for your continuing ministry particularly with regards to warning about Calvinism. I left a Calvary Chapel due in part with the leader and his ongoing support of Brian Brodersen who is...

stock photo, not from Asbury U. LTRP Note: The following letter to the editor from a Lighthouse Trails reader raises valid concerns about circumstances surrounding the Asbury "revival." While Asbury University personnel and numerous secular and religious media outlets say...

Dallas Jenkins with his three spiritual advisors for the The Chosen (photo is a low-resolution 2-second clip of a YouTube video; used in accordance with the U.S. Fair Use Act; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPUwzjUBWoM)) In December of 2021, Lighthouse Trails posted a YouTube...

By Bob KirklandFrom the book Calvinism: None Dare Call It Heresy (Lighthouse Trails, 2018) The word perseverance is found only once in the Scriptures. Ephesians 6:18 commands the believer to be, “Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the...

Dear Lighthouse Trails: This article came up in a feed, and I thought it might be a useful reminder to your readers. It's a 2017 shallow academic re-run of what LHT has devotedly and thoroughly covered in depth for years!...

[caption id="" align="alignright" width="365"] "Ekapol Chanthawong, left, is the 25-year-old coach of the trapped boys who taught them to meditate to stay calm in the cave."  Photo Credit:Thai Navy Seals[/caption] LTRP Note: Our hearts (and prayers) went out to the...

2020 Update: Lancaster Bible College continues down the contemplative/emergent path. For a strong convincing example, their Formational Leadership Master of Arts Degree program is taught largely by contemplative/emergent/Replacement Theology/New Missiology leader Wayne Cordiero. (More information on this program) After receiving...

  LTRP Note: The following news story is posted for informational and research purposes only. Lighthouse Trails in no supports the efforts of the FFRF. "FFRF and 21 California Taxpayers File Historic Challenge" FFRF Sues IRS, Geithner & California State...

Mennonite churches have not historically focused on the man made religious rituals in the 40 days leading to Easter. By Menno-Lite Today is Ash Wednesday, the first day of an ancient but relatively new tradition that the Mennonites have taken...

Courtesy of Understand the Times Connect the dots and draw your own conclusions (See related articles under picture) Related Articles from Lighthouse Trails: Brian Brodersen and Greg Laurie’s “Bigger Picture of Christianity” Rick Warren’s Dangerous Ecumenical Pathway to Rome And...

By Berit Kjos (from her new release, How to Protect Your Child From the New Age & Spiritual Deception) Music is a lot like alcohol and drugs. It can be very deceiving and destructive when misused. It can distort one's...

By Mike Oppenheimer Let Us Reason Ministries Whenever we hear of a discovery or a cure that has great popularity, it is always wise to look at how it was discovered, who are the people promoting it, and what are...

Special Note From Lighthouse Trails:We do not believe any person should be treated with hateful or cruel behavior. However, we also do not believe that hate crime legislation is necessary or legitimate because there are already laws prohibiting the abuse...