Tag: Brian McLaren

A Missing (or Ignored) Link: They Like Jesus But Not the Church (or Israel)

In light of the October 7th attack against Israel and the subsequent anti-Israel, antisemitic demonstrations around the world (including within “Christian” circles), it’s important for Bible-believing Christians to understand the role that many popular evangelical figures have played over the…

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Makes No Sense for Contemplatives to Celebrate Easter

The Church’s fixation on the death of Jesus as the universal saving act must end, and the place of the cross must be reimagined in Christian faith. Why? Because of the cult of suffering and the vindictive God behind it.1—Alan…

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NEW BOOKLET: Global Revival or Global Deception: 10 Critical Warnings From the Titanic to the Church

Global Revival or Global Deception: 10 Critical Warnings From the Titanic to the Church by Warren B. Smith is our newest Lighthouse Trails Booklet. The booklet is 18 pages long and sells for $1.95 for single copies. Quantity discounts are…

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“Progressive” Christianity—After Our Children and Grandchildren

By Berit Kjos Today’s “progressive” emerging churches have little love for the old certainties that have grounded genuine Christians in God’s revealed truth for 2000 years. They say those precious guidelines don’t fit the new dialectic and collective ways of…

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A Party Jesus?

By Warren B. Smith Disregarding Danger AFTER the Titanic collided with the iceberg, and with water flooding into the bowels of the vessel, some of the passengers frolicked in an almost party-like atmosphere around the estimated two tons of ice that had…

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Emergent Manifesto of Hope Despair Revisited—How It Has Affected Today’s Church

In 2007, Lighthouse Trails wrote a book review on a book titled Emergent Manifesto of Hope. Today, thirteen years later, we are seeing the “fruit” of the emergent church (that, incidentally, was spawned by leaders like Rick Warren, Bob Buford,…

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