|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
To
Judge or Not Be Judged
|
With
regard to the current spiritual deception coming into the church, let us
ask two questions: Is it right to judge? And do all paths lead
to God?
Jesus
Christ foretold in Matthew 7:22-23:
Many
will say to me in that day, "Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy
name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many
wonderful works?" And then will I profess unto them, "I never
knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity."
I
find it most interesting that people who were doing "many wonderful
works" or miraculous works in His name were, in reality, working
"iniquity" or evil. This leads me to believe that a great
deception is occurring.
These verses also tell me that all paths do not lead to God and, because
they do not, one had better judge which path is correct. Many people, of
course, counter with, "Judge not, that ye be not judged."
However, taken in context, this verse (Matthew 7:1) is talking about
hypocrisy in human behavior and not about withholding critical examination
of spiritual teachings. Galatians 1:8 bears out the necessity to evaluate
spiritual teaching with proper discernment. Paul warns:
But
though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than
that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
Whosoever
transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He
that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the
Son. If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him
not into your house, neither bid him God speed: For he that biddeth him God
speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
And
again in Ephesians 5:11, "...have no fellowship with the unfruitful
works of darkness, but rather reprove them."
How may we reprove something if we don't determine whether or not it fits
the bill of "unfruitful works?" In II Timothy 3:16-17, we
read:
All
scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine,
for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man
of God may be perfect [complete], thoroughly furnished [fully equipped]
unto all good works.
|
|
BOOK REVIEW: CURE FOR THE COMMON LIFE BY MAX LUCADO
|
|
Cure for the Common
Life, by author Max
Lucado, is a book about "living in your sweet spot." Lucado tells
readers in chapter one to "[h]eed that inner music," and quoting
mystic Martin Buber from his
book, The Way of Man
(a book on Jewish mysticism), Lucado tells readers they each have a
"divine spark." Buber had panentheistic affinities as he embraced
the teachings of Hasidism (Jewish mysticism) and believed that this divine
spark that Lucado refers to is in every human being and every part of
creation.
Through Lucado's book he quotes other mystics and
contemplatives: Saint Thomas Aquinas,Thomas Merton, Eugene Peterson and Richard Foster. It is
Thomas Merton who said:
It
is a glorious destiny to be a member of the human race,... now I realize
what we all are.... If only they [people]could all see themselves as they
really are ... I suppose the big problem would be that we would fall down
and worship each other.... At the center of our being is a point of
nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusions, a point of pure
truth.... This little point ... is the pure glory of God in us. It is in
everybody.(Conjectures of
a Guilty Bystander, pp. 157-158)
Merton and Buber shared this belief that everyone had a
divine spark. When Max Lucado quotes men of these persuasions, telling
readers they each have a "sweet spot" then referring to a divine
spark in everyone, this is very confusing and will leave the unaware
spiritual seeker believing him.
Cure for the Common Life has drawn endorsements from an assortment
of Christian leaders,
and their names sit on the front inside covers of Lucado's book as well as
on the back cover. New Age sympathizer Ken Blanchard says of the book,
"Max Lucado has done it again! He has taken simple truths and made
them available to all
of us. Richard Foster says, "I'm so glad for Max Lucado's insightful call
for us to live and work as we are intrinsically designed by God."
Sheila Walsh said that the "message of this book could change your
life forever." Bob Coy (Calvary Chapel Fort Lauderdale) and Bob Buford
(creator of the emerging church)also gave raving reviews of the book. On
the back cover, New Age sympathizer Laurie Beth Jones says, "This book
can cure whatever 'blah' that ails you!" In Jones book, Teach Your Team to Fish,
she states: "I have been challenged by the concept of meditation ... I
decided recently to accept the invitation of a friend to experience the
sheer silence of meditation-undirected prayer. ... I had before only sensed
intellectually ... But by going deep into prayer I could almost feel
it." (p. 142.)
Lucado seems to be coming out of the contemplative closet.
Recently he was featured on the Be
Still DVD, along with Richard Foster and Beth Moore. In
that DVD, Lucado emphasized the importance of contemplative prayer, saying
"It's nothing mystical, necessarily. It's nothing secretive. It's just
what we do with our body we do with our soul." But Richard Foster
would probably disagree - contemplative is mystical, and in many ways is
very secretive.
Christian leaders with contemplative and New Age sympathies
are not the only ones who love Cure
for the Common Life. Barnes and Noble bookstores began a
New Age-promoting project called East West that is "a resource for
conscious living. It opens doors to self-discovery, higher awareness and
true understanding." Under one of their best sellers list are
five titles, one of them being Lucado's book Cure For the Common Life. This is what East West says of
Lucado's book:
According to New York Times bestselling
author Max Lucado, you were designed as a one-of-a-kind to achieve one
God-given purpose. And embedded in your soul are the power and passion to
fulfill it. As Dr. Phil McGraw writes, "Cure for the Common Life can help you find
that uniqueness that puts it all in perspective, and show you how to live
it every day so that you aren't just existing in God's creation but
thriving in His plan."
Apparently, those with New Age persuasions admire Lucado's
"divine spark" in everyone idea. And why not. That's what the New
Age is really all about.
|
|
|
|
The
"Kingdom of God" in the Emerging Church: A Theology of Despair
and Hopelessness
|
by Bob DeWaay
(author of The Emergent Church: Undefining
Christianity)
Imagine a world where the polarity of
time is reversed so that history moves backward toward Paradise rather than
forward toward judgment. Consider a world in which God is so immanently
involved in the creation that He is undoing entropy1 and recreating the
world now through processes already at work. Think of a world where the
future is leading to God Himself in a saving way for all people and all of
creation. This imaginary world is our world viewed through the lens of
Emergent eschatology.
Several acts of God's providence brought
me to know the nature of Emergent theology and its unique eschatology. The
first happened in 1999 during my final year in seminary when the seminary
hired a new professor, LeRon Shults. Shults, a theological disciple of the
German Theologian Wolfhart Pannenberg, became my professor for a logic
class. Shults often described his beliefs with this simple statement:
"God is the future drawing everything into Himself."
Some years later, several people
suggested that I consider writing an article for Critical Issues
Commentary, our ministry newsletter, examining a new movement called
"The Emerging Church." For my study I carefully read Brian
McLaren's book A Generous Orthodoxy.2 What baffled me about his
theology was that his views were nearly identical to those refuted 40 years
earlier by Francis Schaeffer, who had called it "the new
theology." But as Schaeffer so clearly showed, the result of this
theology is despair because under it there is no hope of knowing the truth.
But the Emerging writers describe their theology as one of hope. If there
is no hope of knowing the truth about God, man, and the universe we live in
(as they claim), then how is hope the result? It turns out that a theology
from the 1960s, first articulated in Germany when Schaeffer was writing his
books, is the answer.
That leads to a second providential
event. A member of our congregation handed me a book that she thought might
be of interest in my research: A is for Abductive - The Language of the
Emerging Church.3 Under the entry "Eschaton," the heading
"The end of entropy"4 appears. It then says, "In the
postmodern matrix there is a good chance that the world will reverse its
chronological polarity for us. Instead of being bound to the past by chains
of cause and effect, we will feel ourselves being pulled into the future by
the magnet of God's will, God's dream, God's desire."5 Reading this
brought my mind back to 1999 and Shults' interpretation of Pannenberg:
"God is the future drawing everything into Himself." Could this
be the ground of Emergent "hope"?
The third providential event was the
debate with Doug Pagitt, the 2006 event on the topic of The Emergent Church
and Postmodern Spirituality. That event gave me the opportunity to ask
Pagitt, a nationally recognized leader in the Emergent movement, whether or
not he believed in a literal future judgment. He would not answer either
way but did state that judgment happens now through consequences in
history. His refusal to answer that question convinced me that the Pannenberg/Shults
eschatology was behind the movement!
The fourth providential event was a
meeting with Tony Jones of the Emergent Village with the goal of setting up
another debate. It turned out that they did not want another debate, but
Jones offered to answer any of my questions about Emergent. I responded by
e-mail asking about Stanley Grenz, Wolfhart Pannenberg, LeRon Shults, and
Jürgen Moltmann and their influence on Emergent theology. Jones replied
that Grenz (who, as I will later show, praises the theologies of both
Pannenberg and Moltmann) was influential and that Jones himself was
studying under a professor named Miroslav Volf who had studied under
Moltmann. Also, he helped me with his comment that their hope-filled belief
generally leads them to reject eschatologies that "preach a disastrous
end to the cosmos."
The fifth providential event was when I
fell and fractured my ankle while trimming trees. The broken ankle required
that I sit with my leg elevated for a full week in order to get the swelling
down. I had found a copy of Jürgen Moltmann's Theology of Hope that I knew
I had to read if I was going to write this book and prove my thesis.
Reading Moltmann was so laborious that finishing the book was not likely to
be completed quickly. But because of my immobility I finished Moltmann,
taking notes on the contents of every page. The same week I read Moltmann I
obtained the just-published An Emergent Manifesto of Hope with Pagitt and
Jones as the editors. I read that as well and found Moltmann cited favorably
by two emergent writers.6 In that same book, Jones describes why this
theology is so hopeful for them: "God's promised future is good, and
it awaits us, beckoning us forward. We're caught in the tractor beam of
redemption and re-creation, and there's no sense fighting it, so we might
as well cooperate."7 Or as professor Shults always said, "God is
the future drawing everything into Himself."
All of this leads me to my thesis: That
the worldview represented by the theology of Grenz, Pannenberg, Moltmann,
and Shults is the bedrock foundation of the Emergent Church movement. Their
language and ideas present themselves on the pages of many Emergent books.
For example, McLaren writes, "In this way of seeing, God stands ahead
of us in time, at the end of the journey, sending to us in waves, as it
were, the gift of the present, an inrush of the future that pushes the past
behind us and washes over us with a ceaseless flow of new possibilities,
new options, new chances to rethink and receive new direction, new
empowerment."8 Here is Pagitt's version of it:
God is constantly creating anew. And God
also, invites us to be re-created and join the work of God as
co-(re)creators. . . . Imagine the Kingdom of God as the creative process
of God reengaging in all that we know and experience. . . . When we employ
creativity to make this world better, we participate with God in the
recreation of the world.9
These writers often refer to "God's
dream." Apparently they mean that God imagines an ideal future for the
world that we can join and help actualize. When this dream becomes reality
in the future, it will be the Kingdom of God.
This series of providential events in my
life worked together to help me accurately understand a movement that works
very hard to stay undefined. Definitions draw boundaries. Definitions are
static. But definitions are necessary in order for us to understand
anything. With no defined categories we would be hopeless human beings
because, for example, we need our rational minds and valid categories to
distinguish between food and poison. Definitions are valid, and no amount
of philosophical legerdemain can change that reality. Definitions, to their
way of thinking, impede the process of the "tractor beam" of
redemption they are experiencing. They consider definitions too
"foundationalist," as we will discuss in a later chapter. I
believe that I can now define the Emergent Church movement more accurately
because I understand what they believe.
The Emergent Church movement is an
association of individuals linked by one very important, key idea: that God
is bringing history toward a glorious kingdom of God on earth without
future judgment. They loathe dispensationalism more than any other theology
because it claims just the opposite: that the world is getting ever more
sinful and is sliding toward cataclysmic judgment.10 Both of these ideas
cannot be true. Either there is a literal future judgment or there is not.
This is not a matter left to one's own preference.
(The article above is
taken from The Emergent Church: Undefining Christianity
by Bob DeWaay, pp. 15-18; used with permission.) This material is also
covered in the new DVD lecture series Exposing the Quantum Lie by Bob DeWaay and
Warren Smith.
Note: In September 2009,
Bob DeWaay attended the "2009 Emergent Theological Conversation"
where Jurgen Moltmann was a guest speaker. This substantiated DeWaay's
findings regarding Moltmann's significant influence in the emerging church.
Author:Bob DeWaay is the
pastor of Twin City Fellowship in St. Paul, Minnesota and the author
of The Emergent
Church and
Redefining Christianity. He also writes for the Critical Issues Commentary, a hard-hitting,
Scripturally based commentary and articles ministry covering some of the
most important issues affecting the church today, including mysticism and
spiritual formation.
Notes:
1. Entropy is the principle by which physicists describe heat loss in a
closed system. The existence of entropy is a proof that the universe is not
eternal because if it were infinitely old it would have already died of
heat death.
2. CIC Issue 87, March/April 2005. http://cicministry.org/commentary/issue87.htm
3. Leonard Sweet, Brian McLaren, and Jerry Haselmayer, A is for Abductive - The Language of
the Emerging Church (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2003).
4. Ibid. 113.
5. Ibid.
6. In An Emergent
Manifesto of Hope, Doug Pagitt and Tony Jones editors (Grand
Rapids: Baker, 2007); Moltmann is cited favorably by Dwight Friesen on page
203 and Troy Bronsink page 73 n. 24.
7. Ibid. Tony Jones, 130.
8. Brian D. McLaren, A Generous Orthodoxy; (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2004)
283.
9. Doug Pagitt, Church
Re-imagined(Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2003/2005) 185.
10. Please note that classical amillennialism also believes that the world
is facing future judgment. Emergent is not merely opposed to
dispensationalism, but any version of eschatology that asserts that God
will bring cataclysmic judgment at the end of the age.
|
|
United Kingdom: The Shack has "taken country by storm" with 1/2 a million in
sales
|
February 2010 - UK - First published in the USA by Windblown Media, THE SHACK hit UK shores
in July 2008. Entering the New
York Times bestsellers list at Number 1, the novel held the top
spot for an incredible 70 weeks and has remained in the Top 10 ever since.
Since publication in the UK THE
SHACK has taken the country by storm, attracting a huge and
loyal fan base, generating controversy and provoking the publication of
several other titles in reply. Originally a self-published phenomenon,
there are now over seven million copies of the book in print around the
world. On 9th February 2010 the 500,000th copy of THE SHACK was sold in
the UK.
|
|
CROSSOVER: DOUG PAGITT AND JOHN SHELBY SPONG
|
By Ken
Silva
Apprising Ministries
For
the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to
have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in
accordance to their own desires, and will turn away their ears from
the truth and will turn aside to myths. (2 Timothy 4:3-4, NASB)
Professing To Be Wise They Became Fools
Apprising
Ministries has been pointing out
that with the arrival of A New Kind Of Christianity (AKNoC),
the latest book by Brian
McLaren, we're seeing some Dissention Growing
Around The Emerging Church. In what's beginning to
look like a major tactical error, in AKNoC McLaren, unquestionably a leading
theologian in the sinfully ecumenical Emerging
Church aka Emergent
Church-that morphed into Emergence
Christianity-(EC), finally has
begun clearly stating his reimagined ( i.e. post) form of liberal
theology aka Progessive
Christianity, which so many in
the EC have actually adhered to all along.
With this backdrop I now bring to your attention a very
telling interview with John Shelby Spong conducted by EC leader Doug Pagitt December 20 on his Doug
Pagitt Radio program. Interestingly
enough Spong, who's billed as a Champion of progressive Christianity, has an upcoming appearance in something
called The
Sacred Awakening Series from the The
Shift Network, which is dedicated "to our Evolution."
Click
here to listen to the interview and to read more.
|
|
Lancaster, CA - hate crimes harbinger?
|
Charlie Butts - OneNewsNow
The mayor of Lancaster, California, has
apologized for pro-Christian comments he made recently before a group of
pastors.
Mayor R. Rex Parris said in his address
that Lancaster was "growing a Christian community," and after
controversy developed he issued an apology. City Councilwoman Sherry
Marquez posted on Facebook comments about a Muslim honor killing on the
East Coast, thought better about it, and pulled the comments an hour and a
half later. She has also apologized.
The Antelope Valley Human Relations Task Force responded and heard from community residents Monday night. Task Force
chairman Darren Parker tells OneNewsNow that hate crimes charges against
Parris and Marquez will not be sought. Click here to read more.
More on Hate Crime Legislation:
|
|
Movie Review: The Mind-changing Myths of AVATAR
|
Blending Hinduism, Shamanism and Goddess Spirituality
by Berit Kjos
Kjos Ministries
Imagine a new world! Visualize its beauty! Flow with your feelings! Become one with all!
But what about
reality?
The tall, blue-skinned
natives of Pandora, a distant earth-like moon, are part of a unified
spiritual system that links all of nature. They ride through the skies on
powerful birds, climb the stony walls of magnificent hanging mountains,
worship their goddess, and despise the corporate monstrosity that has
invaded their habitat in search of priceless resources.
Those earthly intruders intend to
excavate Pandora's most sacred spot. To avoid war, they brought a scientific
team trained to befriend the indigenous Na'vi people and persuade them to
move.
That team includes latecomer Jake Sully,
a paraplegic Marine replacing his slain twin brother. After some training,
his mind and consciousness would periodically be transferred to the
Na'vi-like avatar - a high-tech body originally made to match his brother's
DNA.
Remember the Hindu word avatar? It refers to an
incarnation or manifestation of a Hindu god. The most common avatars are
incarnations of the god Vishnu, and they include the mischievous
flute-playing Krishna (pictured below) and the bow-and-arrow carrying Rama
(pictured above). Both are pictured with bluish skin - just like the native
Na'vis.
Testing his new legs and body, Jake heads
for the forest and faces a herd of elephant-sized beasts. Moments
later, a flock of snarling predators chase him deeper into the woods where
he meets the beautiful Neytiri who aims her bow and arrow at him.
Fortunately, she receives a message from her mysterious goddess through a
cloud of white flower-like creatures that settle on Jake - a clear sign
that the goddess wants Neytiri to befriend this ignorant stranger.
Hmmm. Do you wonder why Neytiri carries a
bow and arrow when killing is banned and all life is one?
Jake does his best to follow the
sure-footed Neytiri (climbing, leaping, etc.) back to Hometree, her clan's
sacred domain. She introduces him to Mo'at, her friendly mother who happens
to be the tribal shaman. She tells her daughter to train this
"dream-walker" in their native ways. Some of the clan warriors
look skeptical. Click here to continue this review.
|
|
Assemblies of God Leader Promotes Universalist
"Christian" in AOG Magazine
|
by John Lanagan
Word Like Fire
What would you do if a
Superintendent of a large denominational district wrote an article
promoting a universalist author? And what if this article was published and
distributed in a popular denominational magazine? What if, in several
months of back and forth emails, the Superintendent never took steps to
correct this, and in fact, continued to express his admiration for the
universalist?
Neither has the
magazine acknowledged the error in publishing the article.
I have not wanted to
write about this. I have, I believe, allowed much time to go by, hoping
this would be corrected. Well, it's February. The article was published in
late October of 2009.
I am going to provide
the link to the magazine article. You will see names like Richard Foster,
Henri Nouwen, Annie Dillard, Tony Campolo and Anne Lamott. You
will see that the Superintendent quotes from The Message without
ever noting it is not the Word of God.
I will get more
detailed if I have to. For now, please realize Anne Lamott is a
universalist who has a "jesus" as her god: She believes all
paths lead to heaven. She is very honest about it.
Yet, as you read this article, you will see that she is never identified as
anything other than a Christian. This is a terrible thing to spring on the
sheep. How many went out and bought Lamott's books based on this article? Click here to read more and for links and
documentation.
|
|
Actress Goldie Hawn to Help Bring Buddhism to UK Schools
|
The Conservatives are
planning a schools revolution - with the help of the French, the Swedes and
Goldie Hawn, the Hollywood actress.
In an interview with
The Sunday Times, Michael Gove, the shadow schools secretary, disclosed
that he was in talks with the French government and a Swedish education
chain to set up state schools in Britain.
He is also wooing
Hawn, the Buddhist star of Private Benjamin, who runs an educational
charity that claims simple breathing exercises can boost a child's ability
to absorb knowledge. "We need more new schools outside local authority
control to challenge the bureaucratic monopoly," said Gove. Click here to read more.
|
"Holy Father meets with Lutheran [ELCA] delegation,
encourages prayer and dialogue"
|
LTRP Note: Please read Roger Oakland's expose on the Eucharistic
Evangelization plan of the papacy in Another Jesus. We have also posted
some links to excerpts from that book below.
Vatican
City
-
After today's general audience, the Holy Father met with a delegation from
the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA) in which he expressed
hope for the "continuing Lutheran-Catholic dialogue."
The Lutheran
delegation was led by the ELCA's Presiding Bishop Mark Hanson, who is also
President of the Lutheran World Foundation, the global Lutheran partner to
the Catholic Church since the Second Vatican Council.
The Holy
Father addressed the delegation in English, saying that he hoped "the
continuing Lutheran-Catholic dialogue both in the United States of America
and at the international level will help to build upon the agreements
reached so far."
One such
agreement is a joint declaration on the Doctrine of Justification signed by
the Vatican and the Lutheran World Federation on October 31, 1999. It was
the product of nearly 35 years of Lutheran-Catholic dialogue in the United
States and abroad.
The Pope the
noted that an important additional task "will be to harvest the
results of the Lutheran-Catholic dialogue that so promisingly started after
the Vatican Council II." In order to continue "what has
been achieved together since that time, he encouraged Lutherans and
Catholics toward "ardent prayer" and "conversion to Christ,
the source of grace and truth" in order to build a "spiritual
ecumenism." Click here to read more.
Resources
on this topic, click here.
|
Resources and Helps for Researchers
|
Below are a number of free resources on the Internet to help
you in your research efforts. Also see our resources for
webmasters.
|
"Beloved, do not
believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from
God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world."
I John 4:1
Google News Alerts
You can receive free news alerts on any topic or name. Every time that
topic appears in the news or on the web anywhere, you will receive a news
alert from Google.
Biblegateway.com
Easily look up Bible verses
through topical or keywords
in many different languages.
Claremont Colleges
Digital Library
An excellent resource for many different documents (e.g.,
correspondence between Bob Buford and Peter Drucker, letter from Rick
Warren to Peter Drucker, etc.)
MegaChurch Sermons Database
For research only - not listed as an endorsement
Use Caution and Discernment
Way Back Machine
Take a look at any website on a past date.
Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability
A good source when
researching various Christian organizations. Often provides email
addresses for correspondence.
Go to Amazon,
type in the person's name, and a list of his or her books will appear.
Many of them allow you to look on the inside, table of contents, front
and back cover, etc. through their "Search Inside the Book"
feature. You can also see which books the author cites and even read
excerpts of those citations. Sample chapters are also usually offered.
Use Google and
other search engines. When typing in a name, try using quotation marks
around the name to narrow your search. After typing in the name, trying
doing various searches with different words (eg. contemplative, ancient
practices, spiritual formation, etc.)
Half.com
An
excellent place to buy used books. If you are looking for some titles to
study for your research and don't want to buy the books new, try this
out. It's a safe and secure website, affiliated with ebay. Usually
provides fast delivery too.
Free Translation Tool
World Clocks - Find Out What the Current Time is in Places Around
the World
|
|
|
Exposing the Quantum Lie: God is NOT in Everything - DeWaay
& Smith New Lecture Series
|
A
4-DVD lecture series with Bob DeWaay and Warren B. Smith (from the 2009
Faith at Risk in Minneapolis, MN)
The church and the world are being
offered a new Christianity, and millions of people are buying into it. But
when the outer layers of this New Spirituality are stripped away, what lies
beneath is the Quantum Lie that started in the Garden of Eden. This deception
will play out as the Bible predicts until the return of Jesus Christ to a
world that has become completely deceived into believing that God is in
everything.
How
Eastern mysticism has been repackaged and presented as a new way to know
God.
DVD 2-Warren B. Smith: The Big Picture/A Wonderful Deception
DVD 3-Warren B. Smith: New Age Implications of
The Shack, The Message and The Purpose Driven movement and the
entrance of the Quantum Lie into the church
DVD 4-Bob DeWaay: Emergence Theory. How pantheism and panentheism have
entered the church, convincing millions that this New Spirituality is
exactly what the world needs to save itself
Bob DeWaay (B.A., North
Central Bible College; M.A., Bethel Theological Seminary). Bob is the
senior pastor of Twin City Fellowship in Minneapolis, MN, home of the Faith
at Risk conferences. He is the author of Redefining
Christianity: Understanding the Purpose Driven Movement and The Emergent Church: Undefining
Christianity. He is the founder of Critical Issues Commentary
and is a frequent guest on KKMS 980am in the Twin Cities.
Warren B. Smith (B.A., University
of Pennsylvania; M.S.W., Tulane University). Warren is a free-lance writer
and community social worker who was formerly involved in the New Age
movement. He is the author of Deceived
on Purpose, The
Light That Was Dark, Reinventing
Jesus Christ, and A
"Wonderful" Deception. Warren speaks frequently on
radio and at conferences, warning against spiritual deception in the
church.
Quantum
Lie Trio Pack
Save $10 plus FREE SHIPPING when you buy
the set
Two books and 4 DVDs for just $47.85
(regular price: $57.85) plus free shipping for U.S. customers ($10 shipping
discount for international customers)
Exposing the Quantum Lie with Bob DeWaay &
Warren B. Smith (4 DVD pack - 2010)
A "Wonderful" Deception by Warren B. smith
(book - 2009)
The Emergent Church by Bob DeWaay (book -
2009)
|
|
Warren B. Smith and Ray Yungen Speaking in 2010
|
Below is a partial speaking schedule for
Lighthouse Trails authors Warren B. Smith and Ray Yungen for 2010. If
you live near any of these areas, we hope you will get the chance to
attend. All these events are offered free of charge. If you are interested
in having Warren or Ray (or both) speak to your group, call us at
503/873-9092, or email at editors@lighthousetrails.com.
February 27, 2010 (9:00am-3:00pm)
Westminster,
California
Joint hosted: Calvary Chapel Pacific Coast & Calvary Chapel Cypress
All day conference with:
Warren B. Smith, Ray Yungen, Johanna Michaelsen, Chris Quintana
6400
Westminster Blvd, Westminster, CA
(714) 890-8026
February 28, 2010 (10am service - Ray Yungen and Warren B.
Smith)
DeVore Community Church of Devore
1431
Devore Road
Devore (San Bernadino), CA 92407
909 657-2163 or 909 835 0523
March 18-21
Red River Bible
& Prophecy Conference
Warren B. Smith, Jacob Prasch, David Hocking, Carl Teichrib, John Higgins
Presented
by: Cornerstone Baptist Church & Crossroads Christian Fellowship
Held at: Courtyard Marriot Moorhead
1080 28th Avenue South
Moorhead, MN 56560
701-232-5869 or 701-371-2416 (conference contact)
No Cost. Free will offering.
April
23-24 (evening)-April 25 (all day)
Last Days Bible Conference
Held
at: Monterey Park Evangelical Free Church
3125 Catalina Blvd NE
Calgary, Alberta
(403) 948-5401
Fri 7pm-10pm Sat 9am-10pm
No cost. Free will offering
April 30-May 1
Discerning the Times
Conference
Warren B. Smith, Rob Lindsted, John Plantz, Dave Dunn, Steve Herzig
Ramada Inn
806 Idylwyld Drive North, DIEFENBAKER ROOM
Saskatoon, Sask.
1-306-371-6877 (conference contact)
No cost. Free will offering.
May
29th (9:30-4:00)
Gold
Country Calvary Chapel
Warren B. Smith, Ray Yungen, Johanna Michaelsen
13026 LaBarr Meadows Rd
Grass Valley, CA 95949
530-274-2108
No cost. Free will offering.
July
25th
(8:30 and 10:30)
Candlelight
Fellowship
5725
N. Pioneer Drive
Coeur d' Alene, Idaho
208-772-7755
No cost.
August
12-14
Pastors
and Leaders Conference
Warren B. Smith, Xavier Reis
500
South Lee Ave
Olathe, KS 66061
Phone: (913) 829-9306
|
|
Free Things from Lighthouse Trails
|
1. FREE
PRINT NEWSLETTER: Starting January 2010, From the
Lighthouse print newsletter will be mailed to those requesting it. If you
would like to request the newsletter, please fill out our Newsletter Request Form.
2. FREE CATALOG: Fill
out our short form to receive a free catalog. Click here to access form.
3. FREE E-NEWSLETTER: Sign up to receive our free e-newsletter,
delivered to your email box 3-4 times a month.
4. FREE SAMPLE CHAPTERS:
Check out our free sample chapters of many of our
books.
5. FREE SHIPPING OFFERS:
Lighthouse Trails has a growing number of FREE SHIPPING offers on our books, DVDS, and
CDs.
6. FREE ONLINE E-BOOKS: Lighthouse
Trails currently has two free e-books. We also hope to soon be offering
some of our titles as Kindle books (digital books to be read on Kindle
machines) for low prices. We hope that in offering these digital versions
of our books, readers will have the chance to see the quality of our
workmanship before purchasing print versions. Click
here to see our available e-books.
|
|
Women's Weekend Conference in Oregon Will Feature Lighthouse
Trails Author - Caryl Matrisciana
|
NOTE: This women's
conference has limited space, and spots are filling up quickly. If you
hope to attend, please reserve your spot as soon as you can.
Lighthouse
Trails author, Caryl Matrisciana (Out of India), will be
the guest speaker at a women's weekend conference in Oregon this
coming April. The conference will be held at the Christian Renewal Center,
a beautiful 40 acres of creeks, evergreens, and lodges, nestled in the Cascade
foothills near the Silver Falls State Park.
Caryl's topic
for the weekend will be "Finding Truth In a Confusing World."
Born and raised in India, Caryl saw first hand the effects that Hinduism
had on the people of that nation. After leaving India as a young adult,
Caryl became involved in the counter culture, only to find that elements of
Hinduism and the New Age were very much the same.
The weekend conference begins on Friday, April 16th with dinner at 6:30 and
goes until after lunch on Sunday, the 18th. The suggested donation per
person is $85, which includes 2 nights and 6 meals. A $25 deposit will
hold a spot for you. Registration forms are online at: http://www.christianrenewalcenter.org/retreatform.htm.
Or you may call 503/873-6743 and register by phone. Please let them know
that you heard about this through Lighthouse Trails.
Spots
will fill quickly for this special weekend, so if you are interested and
able, sign up soon. This is a great opportunity for solid teaching,
fellowship, and time in the Word and prayer. Plus the Silver Falls State
Park, just a couple miles away, is the home of the greatest concentration
of water falls in North America.
Click here to see
photos of CRC's facilities and grounds.
If
you are flying in for this event, you can call CRC to arrange for someone
to pick you up.
|
|
2010 New Releases from LT
|
1.
This year, Lighthouse Trails will be releasing our own edition of Foxe's Book of Martyrs. This book is in the
public domain, and after an unsuccessful search to find an edition we
liked, we decided to publish our own edition. As soon as we have a release
date, we will let our readers know.
3. The latest book we have added to our
retail section is Bob DeWaay's The
Emergent Church. This is a deep reading, important theological
expose on the spirituality and philosophy behind today's emerging church
movement. Click here to read
more.
4. In the fall of 2009, Twin City
Fellowship in St. Louis Park, MN held Faith at Risk V. Speakers were Bob
DeWaay, pastor of TCF and author and former New Age follower Warren B.
Smith. In Exposing the Quantum Lie:
God is NOT in Everything, DeWaay and Smith show how
panentheism and New Age thought have entered the church and how the
church has literally fallen for this incredible and insidious deception.
Release date: February 25th, 2010.
5. This summer, we will be releasing a
true story called Stolen From My Arms by
Katherine Sapienza as part of our Fallen Sparrow series.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
| |
Featured Resources
|
|
| |
|
|
Contemplative Spirituality: A belief system that
uses ancient mystical practices to induce altered states of consciousness
(the silence) and is rooted in mysticism and the occult but often wrapped
in Christian terminology. The premise of contemplative spirituality
is pantheistic (God is all) and panentheistic (God is in all). Common
terms used for this movement are "spiritual formation," "the
silence," "the stillness," "ancient-wisdom,"
"spiritual disciplines," and many others.
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. In fact, contemplative spirituality is the heartbeat of the spiritual formation movement. |
|
|
| |
|
