Tag: Rob Bell

Lighthouse Trails 2013 Year in Review—PART 1 – Top 7 Book and Film Reviews in 2013

At the end of every year, Lighthouse Trails presents its YEAR IN REVIEW. Over the next few days, we will post a number of different categories with our top stories from each category. Our first category this year is our “Top 7 Book…

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Brian McLaren’s Mystery Project Out of the Bag – CANA Initiative – A Gathering of Emergents

Recently, a reader brought to our attention a new development within the emerging church – the Cana Initiative, a think tank comprised of “faith-engaged organizations, individuals, institutions and networks.” On the Cana Initiative website, it states: The CANA Initiative seeks to create…

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Letter to the Editor: The Affects of “Spiritual Formation” in a Christian Church

To Lighthouse Trails: My hope is that this might benefit someone, if not in the writing of it, but in the responses it might receive. Telling myself always in all that I do, I try to do for the Glory…

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News in Review with Understand the Times

The latest news briefs from Understand the Times: September 17 – Will Israel be the World’s First ‘No Cash’ Society? September 20 – Homeland Security to test BOSS facial recognition at junior hockey game September 23 – Pope expresses good…

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BOOK REVIEW: Putting Away Childish Things, a Tale of Modern Faith by Marcus J. Borg

LTRP Note: While reading this book review on Marcus Borg’s new book, please bear in mind two things: one, that Borg rejects essential tenets of the biblical Christian faith (such as that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, that he was…

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Bell Calls Homosexual ‘Marriage’ a Move of God for ‘Greater Affirmation of Gay Brothers, Sisters’

By Heather Clark Christian News Network Just days after word broke that Rob Bell, author of the best-selling and controversial book Love Wins, which challenges the Christian teaching of Hell, came out in support of the homosexual lifestyle, Bell has…

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No Hell Bell Comes Out in Support of Homosexuality, Tells ‘Narrow’ Christians to ‘Repent’

By Heather Clark Christian News Network San Francisco, California – Rob Bell, author of the best-selling and controversial book Love Wins, which challenges the Christian teaching of Hell, came out in support of homosexual marriage on Sunday and called “narrow”…

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Rob Bell to Teach Teens That Christian Beliefs About Hell are ‘Misguided and Toxic’

LTRP Note: Please also read the Lighthouse Trails article below the Christian News Network article to understand more about Rob Bell’s beliefs and teachings. By Christian News Network Author and speaker Rob Bell is set to release a teen version of his…

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Cornerstone University Update: Recommends Brian McLaren and Other Emergent Mystics & President Promotes Contemplative Spirituality

Today we received a phone call from a Lighthouse Trails reader asking what the recent status on Cornerstone University in Grand Rapids, Michigan is. In 2006, we placed the Christian university on our Contemplative Colleges list and posted the following…

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The Top 50 “Christian” Contemplative Books – A “NOT RECOMMENDED Reading List” and 25 Christian “Bridgers” to Them

LTRP Note: Ray Yungen and the editors at Lighthouse Trails have put together our Top 50 “Christian” Contemplative Books  – A “Not Recommended Reading List.” If your pastor, your professor, your children, or your friends are reading any of these books, then they…

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Letter to the Editor: Is Compassion International Going Emergent?

2014 Update: To further illustrate how Compassion International is going down the contemplative/emergent path, in April 2013, there was a lectio divina “webinar” held at Compassion International. To Lighthouse Trails: We have seen references to conferences with Willow Creek that included several Emergent…

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Exposing the Quantum Lie: God is NOT in Everything

Below are four video preview clips (each about 10 minutes long) taken from Bob DeWaay and Warren B. Smith’s lecture series, Exposing the Quantum Lie: God is NOT in Everything. You can get the entire 4 lectures at the Lighthouse…

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