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Letter to the Editor: Concerns By Awana Leader About Awana Linking Hands with the Emerging Church

LTRP Note: Lighthouse Trails has had concerns about the direction Awana may be heading for a number of years. This letter (of which we substantiated the contents -see added links) below gives further reason to continue those concerns. Below this…

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The Dangers of Spiritual Formation?—And Some Ways it is Influencing Your Children

By Berit Kjos (author of How to Protect Your Child From the New Age and Spiritual Deception) The Spiritual Formation movement is widely promoted at colleges and seminaries as the latest and the greatest way to become a spiritual leader….

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Revisting Awana’s Move Toward Contemplative – And Another Look at “Perspectives on Children’s Spiritual Formation

Update April 2012: Because Awana’s book, Perspectives on Children’s Spiritual Formation is circulating the market, and because we hear from Lighthouse Trails readers who ask about Awana and their promotion of Spiritual Formation (i.e., contemplative), we are reposting this information…

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Like We Said, Brian McLaren Wants the Minds of Your Children and Grandchildren

Three years ago, we wrote an article titled Brian McLaren’s Hope for the Future – The Minds of Your Grandchildren.   In that article, we stated: [I]n [Brian] McLaren’s book [Finding Our Way Again: The Return of the Ancient Practices] . ….

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Summer is Coming: Use Caution When Choosing Kids Camp or Vacation Bible School

If you are planning on sending your child(ren) to kid’s summer camp or Vacation Bible School this summer, please use caution and discernment. Find out if the program you are looking at is going to be including a spiritual formation…

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Contemplative Sightings, and Why We Should Be Concerned

For seven years, Lighthouse Trails has been writing about and reporting on contemplative spirituality and how it has entered the Christian church. When we first began, with the publication of A Time of Departing, and then with ongoing research, we…

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