LTRP Note: In 2017, Lighthouse Trails released a booklet titled Circle Making and “Prayer Circles” Versus the Straight Line of Truth because many Christian leaders have been promoting and endorsing a book (and its practice) called The Circle Maker by Mark Batterson. Earlier this month, one of our readers called and was concerned that Christian … [Read more…]
Dear LHT editors: My parents attend an Assemblies of God church, and I try to keep up to date on what is going on. I left the denomination years ago, but they are struggling to stay. I just looked up the events for 2017 and wasn’t too shocked to find good old Rick Warren as … [Read more…]
For three years, Lighthouse Trails has been warning believers about Sarah Young’s Jesus Calling. It was October 25th 2013 that we announced going to press with Warren B. Smith’s book “Another Jesus” Calling. Since then, we have published three booklets by Warren on the topic as well as several articles. We also sent his booklet … [Read more…]
LTRP Note: The following is from a Lighthouse Trails reader who had written to Anne Graham Lotz regarding her recent promotion of Honi, the mystic, and prayer circles. You may wish to refer to our two previous posts on this situation: Letters to the Editor: Anne Graham Lotz Promoting Circle Making and Letters to the Editor: … [Read more…]
From a Lighthouse Trails reader regarding Anne Graham Lotz’s recent promotion of the circle maker concept. Please read: The Native Spirituality “Medicine Wheel” and The Circle Maker by Cree author Nanci Des Gerlaise. Dear Anne, I have always regarded you as a very spiritual woman, but when I read that you had bought into the heresy … [Read more…]
In a book written by Mark Batterson called, The Circle Maker: Praying Circles Around Your Biggest Dreams and Greatest Fears, Batterson insist that one can draw a circle around various issues and desires, and God will intervene mightily.—C.H. Fisher “THE CIRCLE MAKERS” By C. H. Fisher TruthKeepers There is this familiar and oft-quoted excerpt from … [Read more…]
By Nanci Des Gerlaise (Canadian Cree author of Muddy Waters: an insider’s view of North American Native Spirituality) Native Americans developed the concept of the medicine wheel to illustrate their belief that life is a circle—from birth to death to rebirth—and to act as a guide to understanding self, creation, and their duties. Everything within … [Read more…]
