At the end of each year, Lighthouse Trails presents its Year in Review, divided into different parts. Below is Part 1 of our 2022 Year in Review. 2022 marks the year that Lighthouse Trails began critiquing the highly popular series The Chosen. While we posted nearly two dozen articles, letters, or videos about The Chosen … [Read more…]
Courtesy of John Lanagan at The Word Like Fire Ministries Related Articles: Do “The Chosen” Mormon Executive Producers See Mormonism and Christianity Coming Together? So You Still Think The Chosen Is an Accurate Reflection of the “Authentic” Jesus Christ? Really? Latest Chosen Series Defense—”Not Produced by Mormons”—Misleading, Evasive, and Wrong
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. (2 Timothy 4:3-4) Responding to article: The Chosen: “Get Used to Different” Dear … [Read more…]
“Not Produced by Mormons” Growing numbers of Christian leaders and pastors are giving a thumbs up or a casual pass to The Chosen series; and the latest defense by Chosen creator Dallas Jenkins and many defenders of the series is—”It’s not produced by Mormons.” This seems to provide license for leaders and pastors and others … [Read more…]
In December of 2021, Lighthouse Trails posted a YouTube video by an outside source that documented numerous unbiblical aspects of the highly popular series, The Chosen. In January of 2022, Lighthouse Trails released its own documentation in a booklet titled The Chosen Series: 10 Critical Concerns. Prior to and after the release of our booklet, … [Read more…]
By Dennis and Rauni HigleyFormer leaders and teachers in the Mormon churchH.I.S. Ministries International Thank you for writing about The Chosen series. We are so pleased to see it. We hope you do not mind that we’ll suggest that all our warnings about The Chosen need to start from the beginning – i.e. from the … [Read more…]
Did you know that in the hugely popular series, The Chosen, the apostle Peter continually calls John the Baptist “creepy John”? Yet the Bible highly esteems John the Baptist saying he would “be great in the sight of the Lord” and come in the spirit and power of Elijah—Luke 1:15-17. Did you know that in … [Read more…]
THE CHOSEN Series—10 Critical Concerns is our newest Lighthouse Trails Booklet. The booklet is 18 pages long and sells for $1.95 for single copies. Quantity discounts are available. Our Booklets are designed to give away to others or for your own personal use. Below is the content of this new booklet. To order copies of … [Read more…]
In 2020, a major motion picture called The Secret: Dare to Dream was released and is available through major outlets such as Amazon Prime and Netflix. The movie is based on a 2006 documentary and book called The Secret. In 2007, Lighthouse Trails reported on the documentary film and the book, The Secret, both which … [Read more…]
LTRP Note: The following news article is posted for informational and research purposes. By Heather ClarkChristian News Network Calling the story “heartwarming,” Disney+ announced on Thursday the release of a new Pixar short film, which centers on the story of a man named Greg who is nervous about revealing to his parents that he is in a … [Read more…]
LTRJ Note: The following out-of-house news story is posted for informational and research purposes. “For The LGBT Mob, Lesbian Ads On The Hallmark Channel Are Just The Beginning” By Hans FieneThe Federalist On the latest episode of “Everybody on the Internet is Angry,” the Hallmark Channel found itself caught between a Christian rock and an … [Read more…]
Dear Lighthouse Trails: The “update” to the Anne of Green Gables series on Netflix called Anne with an E. has undertones – and overtones – of transvestitism and homosexuality. It started out with one of Anne’s young male friends, Cole, hinting about his sexuality. In season 2 episode 7, it all came out. In that … [Read more…]
By Berit Kjos (From Berit’s book How to Protect Your Child From the New Age & Spiritual Deception) When children from nine years of age upward are led to believe that [contemporary teen novels] reflect how most people live, then their conduct will certainly be influenced. . . . If more acceptable conduct is desired … [Read more…]
Beth Moore & Priscilla Shirer – Their History of Contemplative Prayer and Why War Room Should Not Have Used Them by John Lanagan and the Editors at Lighthouse Trails is our newest Lighthouse Trails Booklets. The Booklet is 14 pages long and sells for $1.95 for single copies. Quantity discounts are as much as 50% … [Read more…]
TO LIGHTHOUSE TRAILS: I’m sending you this e-mail (see below) that I got from the “Awakening America Alliance” about their recent biennial “RESET SUMMIT” held in Atlanta, Georgia. “Awakening America Alliance” states this as their ultimate goal: “The Alliance’s ultimate goal is serving kingdom initiatives for spiritual awakening and missional living. The Reset Summit is a … [Read more…]
By L. Sharp Free-lance researcher and reporter The Interspiritual Moses: New Age Jihadist The movie begins by introducing Moses (played by Christian Bale) as a trained army general, part of the current Pharaoh’s ruling family, preparing to attack a Hittite army with his “brother” (Pharaoh-in-waiting Ramses). This is an early indicator that this movie is … [Read more…]
On January 21st, about 30 of contemporary Christian music’s most well-known singers from the last four decades will be joining New Age sympathizer and devout Roman Catholic Roma Downey for a special live online concert called “We Will Stand.” The concert is being presented by CCM United and has a motto of “One Message, Many … [Read more…]
LTRP Note: The following news story is posted for research and informational purposes only and not as an endorsement for CCM magazine. It is with dismay that we have learned that the creators of Fireproof and Courageous (two family-oriented Christian films) have turned to Beth Moore and Priscilla Shirer for their new film on prayer. … [Read more…]
By Berit Kjos During a flight delay in Chicago in the late nineties, I spent my time browsing the airport bookstore near my terminal. When a young woman next to me picked up a copy of Conversations With God, the first book in the popular series by Neale Donald Walsch, I had to ask, “Are … [Read more…]
By Heather Clark Christian News Network A new Hollywood epic on the life of Noah has stirred controversy among Christians, Jews and others who have pre-screened the film, as they state that the movie largely leaves out one important foundation: the Bible. Noah is the brainchild of producer Darren Aronofsky, who says that he has … [Read more…]
Also see Berit’s review of The Hunger Games – the book. By Berit Kjos “The techniques of brainwashing developed in totalitarian countries are routinely used in psychological conditioning programs imposed on American school children. These include emotional shock and desensitization… isolation from sources of support [parents], stripping away defenses… and inducing acceptance of alternative values…”[1] … [Read more…]
