(See Year in Review 2022, Part 1, The Chosen) While we receive numerous letters, comments, calls, and e-mails throughout the year, and consider them all important and of value, we believe the 10 letters and comments below illustrate very well what many of our readers are concerned about in these difficult days. Click the “Read more” … [Read more…]
Dear Lighthouse Trails: I am enclosing some magazine articles put out by the Salvation Army during the summer of 2022. One of them is from Peer magazine that is for teenagers and college-age kids. The article from that magazine is about [the Catholic contemplative mystic] Henri Nouwen. The other article, “Meditation in Movement,” is from … [Read more…]
My Conversion and My Journey Out of “the Holiness Movement” by Harry Ironside 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. Special Editor’s Note: For … [Read more…]
LTRP Note: Lighthouse Trails first wrote about the Salvation Army’s move into the contemplative/emerging camp in July of 2006 in an article titled, “Salvation Army Joins the Contemplative/Emerging Ranks.” Later that year, we reported on Salvation Army’s partnering with Pete Greig’s emergent 24/7 Prayer and Boiler Rooms movement. In 2008, we reported that Salvation Army … [Read more…]
Hi Lighthouse Trails: Here in New Zealand, we are opening up after Auckland, our largest city, has been in lockdown for quite a while. We have been going to the Salvation Army in _____________. They have now decided that because of the new restrictions coming into place this Friday they will not allow people without … [Read more…]
Dear Lighthouse Trails: Are you familiar with the Lectio 365 app? It is being promoted at my church and the small amount of research I’ve done has me concerned. Thank you so much for your boldness in standing up for God’s Truth. C.D. Our comments: This group is connected with Pete Greig (Red Moon Rising) whom we … [Read more…]
LTRP Note: The information in this article was written a few years ago, but it remains as relevant today as it did back then—in fact, more so as you can see from the articles we link to at the bottom of this article. If you do not understand what the Catholic Church really teaches and … [Read more…]
See Part 1 of Year in Review: Top 10 Letters to the Editor. See Part 2 of Year in Review: Top 10 Out-of-House News Stories. See Part 3 of Year in Review: Top 10 Articles by LT Authors. The final Part of the Lighthouse Trails 2019 Year in Review are the top 10 articles written … [Read more…]
According to a November 2019 posting on the Salvation Army website titled, “World Leader of The Salvation Army General Brian Peddle meets His Holiness Pope Francis,” it appears that the Salvation Army is part of the growing ranks of evangelical organizations in the race toward unity at all costs. The post from the Salvation Army … [Read more…]
Dear Lighthouse Trails: Freedom of religion is being seriously challenged in Canada. Freedom of speech will be next! Christian organizations (perhaps including the Salvation Army, because who knows whether they will sign) which offer charitable programs (after school activity etc.) funded by the government are now required to sign that they will tolerate sins acceptable … [Read more…]
by Carl Teichrib Forcing Change (courtesy Kjos Ministries) Points to Ponder About Christian Interfaith Involvement: 1) The interfaith approach is rationally directionless. If all religions are equally valid or hold some common level of spiritual authenticity, as the interfaith movement asserts, then all religions are ultimately baseless. Therefore, the nonbeliever can logically reject Christianity as … [Read more…]
by Philip Gray Free-Lance Writer “Training Today’s Leaders for Tomorrow’s Churches” is the motto for New Church Specialties, a Christian consulting organization that largely reaches Nazarenes. But New Church Specialties and the affiliated New Church University (where pastors and leaders are mentored and trained) are a conduit for the new spirituality, and their G12 Master’s … [Read more…]
Time magazine has joined the ranks of Christian and secular media that are reporting this week on Rick Warren’s new PEACE Coalition. The article, titled “Rick Warren Goes Global,” says that Warren is “perhaps the most important voice in contemporary American Evangelical Christianity,” and that Warren is hoping to “take his ‘brand’ [of spirituality] to … [Read more…]
What appears to be a wide sweep of Christian organizations and denominations joining together in an ecumenical movement that officially began last year is further indication that a majority of Christendom is becoming interspiritual. The Christian Churches Together in the USA boasts of a membership that includes Salvation Army, World Vision, Reformed Church in America, … [Read more…]
New Zealand Salvation Army has included Pete Greig (of 24-7 Prayer) in their vision plans. Greig’s vision (as seen here in this video – not for children to view) is one that is promoting an army of young mystics. As we have reported on several occasions, 24-7 Prayer and Greig’s boiler rooms are popping all … [Read more…]
ALERT: 24-7 Prayer Rooms Increasing in North America 24-7 Prayer, the ministry of Pete Greig (UK author of Red Moon Rising) has announced: “The new 24-7 Prayer Manual has just been published in North America in response to the growing demand of prayer rooms multiplying all over the continent.” Because of the growing popularity of … [Read more…]
24-7 Prayer, the ministry of Pete Greig (UK author of Red Moon Rising) has announced: “The new 24-7 Prayer Manual has just been published in North America in response to the growing demand of prayer rooms multiplying all over the continent.” Because of the growing popularity of these contemplative/mystical prayer rooms, we are re-posting an … [Read more…]
Red Moon Rising: How 24-7 Prayer is Awakening a Generation (2003, Relevant Books), by UK author Pete Greig, is becoming an increasingly popular book among Christian youth. Greig is the founder of an international prayer movement called 24-7 Prayer and Boiler Rooms. In a magazine interview with Greig, he explains that his organization is now … [Read more…]
Salvation Army is now offering a full line of Spiritual Formation. Books “relevant to Spiritual Formation” include Celebration of Discipline by Richard Foster, The Barbarian Way by Erwin McManus, Spiritual Classics and Devotional Classics by Richard Foster and Divine Conspiracy by Dallas Willard. Also being offered is a men’s retreat called Wild at Heart: Through … [Read more…]
