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

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...

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 in the months before his...

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: The following is posted for informational and research purposes. From Jewish News Syndicate More than 500 days after the Hamas-led terror attacks on Oct. 7, 2023, most Americans view Israel unfavorably, according to new data from the Pew Research Center....

EDITOR'S CELL: Many people may think that figures such as M. Scott Peck and Matthew Fox are irrelevant today. But nothing could be further from the truth; and their influence and teachings have made them forerunners in preparing the world...

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...

by John Lanagan Word Like Fire What would you do if a Superintendent of a large denominational district wrote an article promoting a universalist author? And what if this article was published and distributed in a popular  denominational magazine? What if,...

[caption id="attachment_25869" align="alignright" width="303"] The First Thanksgiving. By Jean Louis Gerome Ferris, 1912-1915.[/caption] By Bill Randles By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he...

LTRP Note: The following is posted for informational and research purposes. In 2013, Lighthouse Trails released Berit Kjos' booklet titled A “Common Core” For a Global Community. If your child, or a child you know, is in a public school,...

By Chris Lawson Each of the following authors professes to be Christian and/or uses biblical terminology in his or her writing, yet promotes at least one of the following serious false teachings: contemplative spirituality (i.e., Spiritual Formation), the emergent, progressive...

[caption id="attachment_16826" align="alignright" width="116"] Roger Oakland[/caption] [caption id="attachment_18904" align="alignleft" width="100"] Warren B. Smith[/caption]   Lighthouse Trails authors Warren B. Smith and Roger Oakland will be speaking at the following conference in Southern California on February 5th and 6th. There is...

[caption id="attachment_19158" align="alignright" width="265"] photo from bigstockphoto.com; used with permission[/caption] In 1922, liberal pastor and theologian Harry Emerson Fosdick stated the following words in his sermon titled "Will the Fundamentalists Win?": "It is interesting to note where the Fundamentalists are...

[caption id="attachment_18765" align="alignright" width="99"] Berit Kjos[/caption] By Berit Kjos (Author of How to Protect Your Child From the New Age & Spiritual Deception) Aleister Crowley was called “the most evil man in the world.” This founder of the Hermetic Order...

LTRP Note: The title of the following article by Newsweek and the Washington Post is "Rick Warren, Interfaith Activist." Lighthouse Trails believes this is an accurate name for Rick Warren--he IS an "interfaith activist." More concerned about establishing a Purpose...

Lighthouse Trails has now placed two 9 minute video clips of Roger Oakland on YouTube. They are portions of Roger's talks on the emerging church from his four-part DVD series. The first segment is posted below or you may click...