Tag: mystical practices

Is Your Church Doing “Spiritual Formation”? (Important Reasons Why It Shouldn’t)

Editor’s Note: Lighthouse Trails wrote this report in 2014. Since then, we have watched “Spiritual Formation” explode within the church. After over twenty years of warnings, to our dismay, the issue has not been challenged or even questioned by most…

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Visio Divina: A Mystical Practice by Any Other Name Is Still a Mystical Practice

LTRP Note: The following letter to the editor is asking about a practice called visio divina. Below her letter are our comments, and below that is our article/booklet on Lectio Divina. Dear Lighthouse Trails: I’m attending a Bible study at…

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“BLM Co-Founder & LA Chapter Leader Discuss Group’s Occultic Practices of ‘Invoking Spirits’”

LTRJ Note: The following is posted for informational and research purposes. By Heather ClarkeChristian News Network In an interview posted to social media, Black Lives Matter (BLM) Co-Founder Patrisse Cullors, along with BLM Los Angeles Co-Founder Melina Abdullah, discussed the…

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Letter to the Editor: My Former Baptist Pastor Went From Spiritual Formation Into the Orthodox Church

Dear Lighthouse Trails: Yesterday, I was reading 1 Corinthians 1 and 2, where Paul is writing about the wisdom of God versus the wisdom of the world. I was reminded of our former Baptist pastor in the early ’80s who…

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Letter to the Editor: A Pastor’s Wife Encourages Church to Use Enneagram

Dear Lighthouse Trails: I wanted to write and share with you yet another example of church leadership embracing New Age methods. Recently, an acquaintance on Facebook posted a link to an Enneagram chart happily reporting her number and encouraging others…

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Taizé Worship – Growing in Popularity, But Roots Are in Mystical Monasticism

By Chris Lawson (Author of Taizé: A Community and Worship: Ecumenical Reconciliation or an Interfaith Delusion?) The worship practiced at Taizé has attracted many people from around the globe and from many different denominations. While many of the words found in Taizé…

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Watkins’ 100 Most Spiritually Influential People of 2016 – How Many Names Do You Know?

Watkin’s Mind Body Spirit Magazine released its 2016 top 100 most spiritually influential people alive today. If you have been reading Lighthouse Trails for some time, you will recognize several names. One thing all of these names have in common…

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Letter to the Editor: Many UK Christians Embracing Eastern Occult Practices For Health Reasons

To Lighthouse Trails: My wife was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis about a year ago, and she/we have been sent on various “coping with  MS” courses. In every case, occult techniques have been encouraged, endorsed, and recommended by _____ staff nurses and…

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The Merging of Native Spirituality and the Emerging Church . . . for the “Healing” of the Nations?

By Nanci Des Gerlaise (First Nations Cree Canadian and author of Muddy Waters) The emerging church is a movement that is said to be a new way to do Christianity, a way that is supposed to reach out to the…

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False Doctrines and Seducing Spirits Leave Christians Open to Bizarre Teachings and Mystical Practices

By Kevin Reeves (author of The Other Side of the River) It was a cool evening for summer, and as the neighborhood was some distance out of town, the area was quiet and dark. The night and solitude worked in…

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Reiki “Power” and Rick Warren’s Health Plan

by Berit Kjos Kjos Ministries “Pastor Rick Warren [is hosting] three health experts – including the star of the ‘Dr. Oz Show’ – at Saddleback Church… ‘The Bible says that God wants us to be as healthy physically as you…

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Dr. Oz and Deepak Chopra: Meditate to Lose Weight

VIEW WITH CAUTION – FOR WARNING AND INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY In the video below, Dr. Oz, the new weight-loss mentor for thousands of Christians through Rick Warren’s new Daniel Plan, talks to New Ager Deepak Chopra about meditating to lose…

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