2017 YEAR IN REVIEW – PART 3 – Top 10 Stories From Various Out-of-House News Sources

See also Part 1 and Part 2 of our 2017 Year in Review. The following are the top ten out-of-house news articles. These were posted throughout the year for informational and research purposes and not as...

2017 YEAR IN REVIEW – PART 2 – Top 10 Articles By Like-Minded Ministries

See also Part 1 of our 2017 Year in Review. The following are the Top 10 stories in 2017 written by like-minded ministries (who are also authors Lighthouse Trails represents): 1/Preliminary to Armageddon . . . Paris...

Lighthouse Trails 2017 YEAR IN REVIEW – PART 1 – Top 10 Letters to the Editor

Every year around this time, Lighthouse Trails presents its Year in Review. Over the next few days, we will be posting our top stories from different categories from 2017. This is an opportunity to read stories...

December 25th in a German Labor Camp during WWII

By Anita Dittman (Holocaust Survivor) December 25th  in a German Labor Camp during WWII: We prayed that God would miraculously sustain our strength; each day our food rations diminished so the German soldiers on the battlefronts could...

Christmas Eve at the Greyhound Bus Station

By Warren B. Smith (A story from Watering the Greyhound Garden) And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. —1 Corinthians 13:13 It was a chilly Christmas Eve as I made my way up Market Street towards the...

The Story of Mask-e-pe-toon – A Powerful Cree Chief Who Found the Truth

By  Egerton Ryerson Young (Missionary to the Cree people in Manitoba in the late 1800s) The following incident occurred years ago on the great plains of the Canadian Northwest, long before the waves of Anglo-Saxon...

Letter to the Editor: Widespread Compromise by Most Pastors Leaves Reader in Dilemma

Dear Lighthouse Trails, In regards to the first article in this week’s newsletter, I have run into this constantly. You probably don’t remember me, but I needed info 8 to 10 years ago on the Emergent...

Letter to the Editor: A Pastor’s Wife Encourages Church to Use Enneagram

Dear Lighthouse Trails: I wanted to write and share with you yet another example of church leadership embracing New Age methods. Recently, an acquaintance on Facebook posted a link to an Enneagram chart happily reporting...

Christian Prisoners in U.S. Reach Out to Lighthouse Trails for Encouragement

LTRP Note: Lighthouse Trails receives a growing number of letters from those who are incarcerated in U.S. prisons. The men and women who write all profess their faith in Jesus Christ, having become believers while in...

Pew Research Survey Finds: “Religious Aspects of Christmas Are Declining in Public Life”

LTRP Note: The following out of house news story is posted for informational and research purposes and not as an endorsement of the content or the source. Pew Forum on Religion As long-simmering...

NEW BOOKLET: Circle Making and “Prayer Circles” Versus The Straight Line of Truth

NEW BOOKLET: Circle Making and “Prayer Circles” Versus The Straight Line to Truth by Cedric Fisher and Nanci Des Gerlaise is our newest Lighthouse Trails Booklet. The Booklet is 14 pages long...

Matthew 5:3-12 In Light of the News

By Maria Kneas In light of the news, Matthew 5:3-12 comes to mind. When we feel overwhelmed and know things are happening that are too big for us to handle, then we are “poor in spirit” (verse 3) We have lots of reasons for mourning these days (verse...

Concerned Woman Addresses Local School Officials About Mindfulness Meditation and Children

On November 15th, Lighthouse Trails posted an article titled “What You Need to Tell Your Local Public School Officials About Children and Mindfulness Meditation”which stated that a woman who called...

Jesus Calling – New Age “Messages”: Sarah Young’s Contemplative Prayer Method Identical to Passive, Telepathic-Psychic Literary Mediumship!

LTRP Note: The following is an introduction to Part 8 of Chris Lawson’s audio presentation on Sarah Young’s Jesus...

Letter to the Editor: More Concerns Re: Calvary Chapel Pastors and Discernment Ministries

LTRP Note: We are posting this, not to single out Calvary Chapel as this is a problem in most denominations today, but rather to once again illustrate why discerning Christians (like many of you who read LT)...

Jerusalem – The Capital of Israel

By Roger Oakland Understand the Times, International Anyone who has read the Bible knows that Jerusalem has been the capital of Israel since the nation’s foundation. So why is there such a controversy following President Donald Trump’s decision to...

JERUSALEM – A CUP OF TREMBLING TO THE NATIONS

By Bill Randles In view of last week’s UN Vote on the day the UN designates “Palestinian day,” in which 151 nations voted that Israel has no claim on Jerusalem  and of last week’s six UN anti-Israel...

Letter to the Editor: Calvary Chapel Pastor Condemns Discernment Ministries

Dear Lighthouse Trails: Below you will find a link to a message preached at Calvary Chapel Lone Mountain in Las Vegas, NV.  Please start at the 1:10:00 mark.  This is very concerning to me!!!  Many people are...

Do Warnings Make You Cringe and Turn on Your Mental Auto-block?

By Cedric Fisher Truth Keepers (Warning: If you’d rather wake up with your bed on fire than change the battery in the smoke alarm, this article is not for you.) Why are most professing Christians ignoring warnings? Why do they...

Are Humans on the Verge of an Evolutionary Leap?

By Roger Oakland Understand the Times International Is mankind on the verge of an evolutionary leap that will produce a super race? There are some who believe man is in the process of this happening right now. What does the Bible teach? Is man on the...

Mysticism Takes the Place of Christianity – Hostility Against Believers Will Grow

This week, two items on the Internet were brought to our attention, both of which may seem to be unrelated to each other but in actuality have a connection that we find to be an eerie reminder of the days in...

The Conversion of Protestants to Catholicism Through the Eucharist

By Roger Oakland More and more Protestants are testifying they are being drawn to the Catholic Church, especially through the Eucharist. Some say they have encountered the presence of Christ in a new and exciting way. One such person...

Luis Palau’s Son (President of the Luis Palau Association) Teams Up With Richard Foster’s Renovare

Richard Foster’s founding contemplative organization, Renovare, has announced their upcoming (June 2018) celebration of the 40th anniversary of Foster’s book Celebration of...

“The Number of Teens who Are Depressed is Soaring — and All Signs Point to Smartphones”

LTRP Note: The following news story is posted for informational purposes. By Jean Twenge Business Insider Around 2012, something started going wrong in the lives of teens. In just the five years...

NEW BOOKLET: Watchful and Discerning Through It All

NEW BOOKLET:Watchful and Discerning Through It All by Warren B. Smith is our newest Lighthouse Trails Booklet. The Booklet is 18 pages long and sells for $1.95 for single copies. Quantity discounts are as much as 50% off retail. Our Booklets are...