Tag: let there be light

Ichabod Fulfilled in the Body of Christ

LTRJ Note: Some who read this article and other similar articles by Roger Oakland and LT accuse us of “lumping” all Calvary Chapels together saying they are all bad. We find this line of reasoning troubling. Lighthouse Trails historically has…

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California Church Disaffiliates With the Calvary Chapel Movement Over Heretical Connections

LTRP Note: As many of you know, Roger Oakland, of Understand the Times, International, and Chris Lawson, of Spiritual Research Network, are former Calvary Chapel pastors/teachers, who both left the movement when their warnings about the infiltration of serious false…

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A Commentary: Why Are So Many Departing From Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa?

LTRP Note: Since the passing of Calvary Chapel founder Chuck Smith last fall, Lighthouse Trails has received calls from a number of people who have expressed concern over the direction that Calvary Chapel has gone. To understand more about the…

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Part 2: The Facts Behind My Departure from Calvary Chapel – by Roger Oakland

LTRP Note: Two weeks ago, we presented Part 1 of this story. By Roger Oakland  (author of Let There Be Light, director of Understand the Times) For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor…

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Strong Reader Response to Let There Be Light

Late last fall, Lighthouse Trails released Roger Oakland’s apologetics biography, Let There Be Light. We call this book an apologetics biography because interwoven in the pages of Roger’s life as an evolutionist-turned-creationist is a defense of the Gospel and a contending for…

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Ichabod Revisited

By Roger Oakland Several years ago, I wrote a commentary that created a huge controversy. Some who read the commentary took it personally and thought I had written the article to specifically fire a missile over the bow of the…

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From Darkness To Light

By Roger Oakland www.understandthetimes.org As Paul, an enemy of God, was journeying on the Road to Damascus, carrying out his mission to condemn Christians and have them put to death, suddenly, and unexpectedly, he was confronted with a bright light…

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