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Pietro—The Christian Italian Ex-Priest

The following story if from John Shaw Anderson’s book, Heroes of the Faith in Modern Italy (first published in 1914*). Lighthouse Trails decided to add this book to our collection of resources as we saw the immense value of these…

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Kingdom-Now Evangelicals

By Roger Oakland While I believe Rome leads the way with the bold claim that God chose Peter and the succeeding popes to take the title of “Vicar of Christ” and determine what the sheep should or should not believe,…

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Brian Brodersen and Greg Laurie’s “Bigger Picture of Christianity”

As we observe evangelical Christianity being drawn toward “the Mother Church” of Roman Catholicism, it is amazing to see how very few Christian leaders speak up about this. On the contrary, one after the next, Christian leaders are succumbing to…

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Rick Warren, Jean Vanier, And The New Evangelization

By Roger Oakland Understand the Times, International The Warren- Arroyo EWTN interview that aired on YouTube April 11, 2014 provided many insights regarding the “New Evangelicalism” that is presently unfolding. Rather than lines being drawn in the sand, walls are…

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Time magazine names Pope Francis its ‘Person of the Year’ – “Captured the Imaginations of Millions”

  LTRP Note: After reading the article below by the Washington Post, please re-read some of the 2013 Lighthouse Trails coverage on Pope Francis. (See the links below the article.) When you consider that the new pope is contemplative, interspiritual, ecumenical, and…

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The Catholic Church Continues Drawing In the “Lost Brethren” Through Eucharistic Adoration

LTRP Note: For a number of years now, Lighthouse Trails author Roger Oakland has been warning the body of Christ about the Catholic Church’s “new evangelization” program, which is basically an effort to bring the “lost brethren” (Protestants) into the…

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News in Review from Understand the Times

September 3 – Iran could strike US bases if Israel attacks: Hezbollah September 8 – FBI begins installation of $1 billion face recognition system across America September 4 – Benedict XVI Calls Focolare Youth to Bridge Gap Among All People…

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News Headlines from Understand the Times

January 14 – ‘US prepping facilities for Israel attack on Iran’ January 15 – IBM Reveals Five Innovations That Will Change Our Lives within Five Years January 18 – Pope says uniting Christianity requires conversion January 15 – Russia: Attack…

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News Headlines from Understand the Times

October 22 – New euro ’empire’ plot by Brussels October 18 – Cloning Expert’s Next Goal, a Mammoth? October 19 – Experts warn RFID risks outweigh benefits October 26 – Does Joel Osteen Not Know, or Does He Not Care?…

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John Wickliffe – Standing (and Dying) for the Word of God Against Apostasy and False Doctrine

by John Foxe Author of Foxe’s Book of Martyrs It will not be inappropriate to devote a few pages of this work to a brief detail of the lives of some of those men who first stepped forward, regardless of…

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The “Mary Connection” to the Eucharistic (False) Christ

by Roger Oakland As we read through both the Old and New Testament, one thing becomes very apparent—Christianity is all about Jesus Christ and in believing in Him alone for salvation. The Scriptures testify of the true Jesus, who made…

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