Tag: native spirituality

NEW BOOKLET: Drugs, Meditation, & “A Fully Developed Spirituality”

NEW BOOKLET: Drugs, Meditation, & “A Fully Developed Spirituality” by David Dombrowski is our newest Lighthouse Trails Booklet. The Booklet is 14 pages long and sells for $1.95 for single copies. Quantity discounts are available. Our Booklets are designed to…

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Booklet Highlight: Forgiving—A Story of Forgiveness and How and Why We Should Forgive

LTRP Note: The following is a Lighthouse Trails topical booklet. Lighthouse Trails now publishes 145 booklets, written by over 30 authors. These inexpensive ($1.95 each) booklets are designed to give away, and based on comments and feedback from our readers,…

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Letter to the Editor: Native Shaman Rituals Being Used in Mission in Canada

Dear Lighthouse Trails: Thanks so much for your ministry; your newsletters have been very informative and a blessing to read. For the past three years, we have been involved in a church ministry in __________, Canada which includes outreach to…

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Circle Making and “Prayer Circles” Versus the Straight Line of Truth

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…

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Two Sources of Power But Only One Source of Truth

Nanci Des Gerlaise is a First Nations Canadian Cree woman who is the daughter and granddaughter of medicine men. Growing up, her life was filled with the practices and mystical experiences brought on from Native Spirituality. Today, as a born-again…

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Dream Catchers—Those Popular Spidery “Sacred Hoops”

By Nanci Des Gerlaise (author of Muddy Waters: an insider’s view of North American Native Spirituality) Dream catchers—those spidery “sacred hoops” with feathers. They originated with the Ojibwa tribe during the ’60s and ’70s, supposedly to protect a sleeper by…

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Can Cultures Be Redeemed? – Emerging Church Says “Yes” – Bible Says “No”

By Nanci Des Gerlaise [Indigenous People’s Movement] leaders teach that God has been redeeming cultures and that He placed in all cultures a way for men to have a relationship with God outside of the Gospel.1 DID GOD CREATE CULTURES?…

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Cutting-Edge Christianity or Shamanism?

By David Dombrowski Editor at Lighthouse Trails Publishing I find it rather interesting how God has orchestrated things in life, which demonstrate His great love and ongoing mercy to ordinary people like myself. But, more specifically, I am thinking right…

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The Story of An Old Conjurer—And His Conversion to Christ

By Egerton Ryerson Young (A Canadian missionary from the 1800s and the author of Stories From Indian Wigwams and Northern Campfires) Far away in the forest wilds, several hundreds of miles north-east of the city of Winnipeg, there dwelt in…

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A False Native American Messiah

By Nanci Des Gerlaise (Canadian Cree author of Muddy Waters) False “Christs” exist among Native Americans just like they exist in other ethnic groups. One of the most memorable is Wovoka (born c. 1858 in Nevada), also known as Jack…

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Shamanism or Cutting-Edge Christianity?

By David Dombrowski Editor at Lighthouse Trails Publishing & Research I find it rather interesting how God has orchestrated things in life, which demonstrate His great love and ongoing mercy to ordinary people like myself. But, more specifically, I am…

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Dream Catchers – Those Popular Spidery “Sacred Hoops”

By Nanci Des Gerlaise (author of Muddy Waters: an insider’s view of North American Native Spirituality) Dream catchers—those spidery “sacred hoops” with feathers. They originated with the Ojibwa tribe during the ’60s and ’70s, supposedly to protect a sleeper by…

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