Tag: Erwin McManus

Question to the Editor: What’s Up with Lilly Endowment – Funding Pastoral Sabbaticals with a Contemplative Agenda

To Lighthouse Trails: Eli Lilly, a major pharmaceutical company, in conjunction with Christian Theological Seminary (a liberal seminary in Indianapolis, IN) is funding pastoral sabbaticals.  It appears it is just a part of a national program. Seems highly suspect to…

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Question to LT: What about the “Voice Bible”?

Dear Lighthouse Trails: What is your view of this new translation [the Voice]? Thank for all you do. Looking up. Bob Our answer (from a 2007 LT article): According to a February 11th article in Christian Today, “New Bible Project…

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Erwin McManus’ “Entirely New Category” – The Barbarian Way

by Roger Oakland In a Relevant Magazine interview, Erwin McManus, pastor of a church called Mosaic and a popular author and speaker, states the following: Because people don’t know where to put our community [Mosaic] they put us in the…

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Self-help Guru of “The Secret,” James Arthur Ray, Gets 2 Years in Sweat Lodge Deaths

LTRP Note: Lighthouse Trails wrote several times about The Secret (book and film) when it became a New York Times best-seller from Oprah Winfrey’s promotion of it. James Arthur Ray was one of the “teachers” interviewed in the film. See links below…

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Breakforth Conference in Canada – Causing Confusion by Mixing Truth with Apostasy

Lighthouse Trails has written in the past about Breakforth, an annual conference that takes place in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada each year, because of its promotion of emerging and contemplative speakers. What makes this conference even more spiritually dangerous is that the…

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The New Look of Christian Missions

by Roger Oakland “I must add, though, that I don’t believe making disciples must equal making adherents to the Christian religion. It may be advisable in many (not all!) circumstances to help people become followers of Jesus and remain within…

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