By Will Maule The graphic artist who played a central role in designing the cover for the controversial novel ‘The Shack’ has said he deeply regrets working on the project, now disagreeing with the book’s contentious theology. “[O]ver 10 years ago, I was captivated by the story and felt honored to be part of the … [Read more…]
NEW BOOKLET: Progression to Deception: How New Age Influence is Destroying the Church—One Step After the Next by Gregory Reid is our newest Lighthouse Trails Booklet. The Booklet is 14 pages long and sells for $1.95 for single copies. Quantity discounts are as much as 50% off retail. Our Booklets are designed to give away … [Read more…]
By Warren B. Smith Trinity Broadcasting Network has seen fit to provide The Shack author William Paul Young with the world’s largest “Christian” stage—his very own television series on TBN. Young’s “Restoring the Shack” episodes are masterfully produced on location in beautiful Montana. His presentations are usually underscored and enhanced with soothing music that is clearly … [Read more…]
NEW BOOKLET: ATONEMENT REJECTED! How the Emerging Church Views Christ’s Death on the Cross by Roger Oakland is our newest Lighthouse Trails Booklet. The Booklet is 10 pages long and sells for $1.95 for single copies. Quantity discounts are as much as 50% off retail. Our Booklets are designed to give away to others or … [Read more…]
Dear Lighthouse Trails: I just wanted to share with you how helpful this booklet on The Shack has been to me. Two weeks ago, just a few days after the releasing of The Shack movie, I met with the pastor of our church about my concerns about the movie/book. We had a good meeting which … [Read more…]
Lighthouse Trails has now sent out its 4th letter since early 2016 to over 130 prominent Christian leaders. Along with the letter, we included a copy of the booklet we publish, The Shack and Its New Age Leaven plus a news brief we released recently. Both the booklet and the news brief are written by … [Read more…]
By Warren B. Smith A woman standing in line outside the theater to see The Shack movie was eager to talk with me about Paul Young’s best-selling book. She said she “loved” The Shack and couldn’t understand why it had so many critics on the Internet. She was especially perplexed by the number of “negative” … [Read more…]
By Warren B. Smith For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; But after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, Having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth and shall be turned unto fables. (2 Timothy 4:3-4) YOUNG PUBLICLY ENDORSES UNIVERSAL SALVATION In … [Read more…]
LTRP Note: The Shack movie is about to be released. Millions of Americans will go to theaters to watch the movie. Most likely, the majority of them will be church goers and proclaiming Christians since The Shack book is vetted as a Christian story. Recently, a church contacted Lighthouse Trails and ordered 300 copies of … [Read more…]
In 2009, Lighthouse Trails posted an article titled “The Shack Author Rejects Biblical Substitutionary Atonement.” The article was largely based on an interview that The Shack author William Paul Young did. Below is a partial transcript of the interview between Young and a pastor named Kendall Adams. When your Christian friends, family members, pastors, and … [Read more…]
LTRP Note: The Shack movie is soon to be released, and Christians and non-Christians alike will fill movie theaters to watch it. Before you open your minds and hearts up to this movie, please study the facts behind the book, The Shack, which will no doubt be carried over to some extent to the movie. … [Read more…]
By Warren B. Smith I was drawn into the New Age Movement years ago by books and lectures containing parabolic stories that were not unlike The Shack. They felt spiritually uplifting as they tackled tough issues and talked about God’s love and forgiveness. They seemed to provide me with what I spiritually needed as they … [Read more…]
The best-selling book, The Shack, by William Paul Young, is coming out as a full production movie in March of 2017. After viewing the trailer, we believe this movie is going to have a very big impact on many people’s lives. Unfortunately, it’s going to be a harmful impact. Lighthouse Trails has published several articles … [Read more…]
By Jennifer P. Used with permission. I finished reading my copy of William P. Young’s, The Shack and had something happen that I want to share for those who are interested. While reading The Shack, I rented a movie that came out last year that also, like The Shack, involved some controversy. The movie was called, The … [Read more…]
By Jim Fletcher WorldNetDaily Although few talk about it publicly, I continue to be astonished by the rotten fruit in the Christian book publishing industry. I feel almost forced to say this at the outset: There are still good publishers. There are still good authors. There is still some good material being produced. It’s just … [Read more…]
NEW BOOKLET: Goddess Worship in America and How It’s Affecting the Church by Maria Kneas and John Lanagan is our newest Lighthouse Trails Booklet. The Booklet is 14 pages long and sells for $1.95 for single copies. Quantity discounts are as much as 50% off retail. Our Booklets are designed to give away to others … [Read more…]
In case you still aren’t sure about William Paul Young and his book The Shack—in case you still have some doubts as to whether Young is really of a New Age/New Spirituality persuasion—in case after reading articles at Lighthouse Trails revealing Young’s anti-biblical views on atonement and the Cross—and in case after reading Warren B. … [Read more…]
LTRP Note: As many of you know, Roger Oakland, of Understand the Times, International, and Chris Lawson, of Spiritual Research Network, are former Calvary Chapel pastors/teachers, who both left the movement when their warnings about the infiltration of serious false teachings fell on deaf ears for several years and when they felt they could no … [Read more…]
To Lighthouse Trails: I just received my “Another Jesus” Calling order. Already started reading, and it seems absurd that believers would be duped into believing and spending precious time in such a book as Jesus Calling. Before I closed [my store] and retired, I had MANY requests for Jesus Calling, and from the start, I was … [Read more…]
by Warren B. Smith The New Age/New Spirituality is already heralding quantum physics as a “scientific” basis for their contention that God is not only transcendent but also immanent—“in” everyone and everything. Physicist Fritjof Capra’s 1975 best-selling book on quantum physics—The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism—was … [Read more…]
The Shack and Its New Age Leaven written by Warren B. Smith is our newest Lighthouse Trails Print Booklet Tract. The booklet tract is 14 pages long and sells for $1.95 for single copies. Quantity discounts are as much as 50% off retail. Below is the content of the booklet. To order copies of The Shack and Its … [Read more…]
By Tamara Hartzell (author of In the Name of Purpose and “Reimagining” God: Turning the Light off to Look for “Truth” in the Corner of a Dark Round Room) “For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.” (Galatians 3:26) In today’s shifting Christianity, people think it is simply a matter … [Read more…]
LTRP Note: We received the following letter this week and have decided to post it because The Shack, which has sold over 10 million copies and has been on the New York Times Best Seller list for over 170 weeks, is still a huge seller within the Christian marketplace and because we believe the message in The Shack is contrary … [Read more…]
Just this week, on Swindoll’s website in an article he wrote, “Segments of Solitude,” he is again pointing his readers toward Henri Nouwen. (article from p. 14 of Swindoll’s book, Wisdom for the Way) In 2011, a caller told Lighthouse Trails she had heard that Chuck Swindoll said he wants to “get back to Bible basics.” We told … [Read more…]
LTRP Note: Lighthouse Trails wrote several times about The Secret (book and film) when it became a New York Times best-seller from Oprah Winfrey’s promotion of it. James Arthur Ray was one of the “teachers” interviewed in the film. See links below this posting for information on The Secret. Felicia Fonseca Associated Press PRESCOTT, Ariz. – A … [Read more…]
Lighthouse Trails has written in the past about Breakforth, an annual conference that takes place in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada each year, because of its promotion of emerging and contemplative speakers. What makes this conference even more spiritually dangerous is that the speaker list is a mixture of truth and apostasy. For example, one year both Kay … [Read more…]
By Jeff Baker The Oregonian Courtesy My Word Like Fire Ministries William Paul Young, the author of “The Shack,” will write a new novel. Young, who lives in Oregon City, signed a contract with the Hachette Book Group. “I am very pleased to have signed with Hachette for my next book,” Young said in a … [Read more…]
LTRP Note: The Southern Baptist Convention is changing. Recently, Rick Warren spoke at their annual convention and encouraged pastors to climb on board his global P.E.A.C.E. Plan. In view of the move we have seen in the Southern Baptist Convention over the last several years (like most other evangelical denominations and movements) toward the contemplative/progressive/emerging spirituality, … [Read more…]
LTRP Note: Please see our links below for some related articles. “United Church of Christ prefers ‘to leave that more open for different expressions of the Trinity’ “ By Bob Unruh © 2011 WND Sen. Barack Obama with Rev. Jeremiah Wright The United Church of Christ, the denomination whose Chicago pastor Jeremiah Wright blasted the United States … [Read more…]
LTRP Note: The author of the article below, Jennifer Pekich, is the same “Jennifer” talked about in A “Wonderful” Deception on fractal theory in the best selling book, The Shack. Fractal Theory in The Shack by Jennifer Pekich (Ponderings from Patmos) Used with permission. I finished reading my copy of William P. Young’s, The Shack, and … [Read more…]