Tag: Ray Yungen
LTRP Note: The following letter to the LT editor and the response this person received from Focus on the Family is used with permission from our reader. Important to note that FOF’s response is similar to the response FOF was giving back…
by Ray Yungen What exactly is meditation? The meditation many of us are familiar with involves a deep, continuous thinking about something. But New Age meditation does just the opposite. It involves ridding oneself of all thoughts in order to…
Renovare, as many of you know, is Richard Foster’s organization and his mainstay platform for promoting contemplative spirituality. In a November 2011 letter to supporters, Renovare president Christopher Webb states the following: At this writing I am attending a gathering of…
By David Dombrowski Editor at Lighthouse Trails The “Creeping” Effect of Apostasy The church of today is very much astir. Everywhere we turn, embellishments are being added to Christianity as if to improve it. The old ways do not seem to…
Spiritual Formation: A movement that has provided a platform and a channel through which contemplative prayer is entering the church. Find spiritual formation being used, and in nearly every case, you will find contemplative spirituality and its “pioneers” such as…
One Saturday afternoon a number of years ago, at a Portland, Oregon Christian bookstore, contemporary Christian music and cross-over pop-rock singer Amy Grant was scheduled to show up to meet customers at the store. Ray Yungen, author of A Time…