Rick Warren and Joel Osteen Join Hands With Oprah

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Rick Warren and Joel Osteen Join Hands With Oprah

By Marcia Montenegro On October 5th, along with others on Facebook, I watched 3 hours of live taping of Oprah’s Lifeclass online. This included an hour of Word Faith preacher Joel Osteen with Oprah and 2 hours of megachurch Pastor Rick Warren with Oprah. These programs will air later on the OWN network (Rick Warren’s two shows will air in early 2013). God’s Word First  Before discussing...

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The “Spiritual Disciplines Handbook”

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The “Spiritual Disciplines Handbook”

How Christian Organizations, Seminaries and Ministry Leaders Are Incorporating This Mystical Primer Into Christian Education By Lighthouse Trails Research Spiritual Disciplines Handbook: Practices That Transform Us by Adele Ahlberg Calhoun is a primer on contemplative mysticism, bursting with contemplative meditation instruction along with references and quotes by some of the movement’s most...

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In Touch Magazine Draws Readers to “Celtic Spirituality”

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In Touch Magazine Draws Readers to “Celtic Spirituality”

By Lighthouse Trails Editors In the July 2012 issue of Charles Stanley’s In Touch magazine, in an article titled “Welcome In, Reach Out,” the author writes glowingly of what is called “Celtic Spirituality,” basing her article on George H. Hunter III’s The Celtic Way of Evangelism and John Finney’s book Recovering the Past: Celtic and Roman Mission. The article talks about how to reach out...

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Peale, Schuller, Warren and New Age Leader Bernie Siegel

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Peale, Schuller, Warren and New Age Leader Bernie Siegel

By Warren B. Smith Mountain Stream Press Why do Norman Vincent Peale, Robert Schuller, and Rick Warren all make specific reference to author Bernie Siegel – a New Age leader with a spirit guide named “George”? On paper, Siegel is an unlikely person for church figures to be quoting, referencing, and even praising. That is, unless Siegel is a merging, overlapping, interconnecting link between the...

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Henry Blackaby’s Mysticism-Lite Negates Sola Scriptura

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Henry Blackaby’s Mysticism-Lite Negates Sola Scriptura

By Ken Silva Apprising Ministries I really must tell you that there’s really no easy way to say what I’m about to tell you in this particular piece. As a direct fruit of the the sinfully ecumenical Emergent Church aka the Emerging Church, a neo-liberal cult now operating within mainstream of the church visible, the heart of the evangelical community is fast becoming congested by pietism and...

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Doug Pagitt’s “Body Prayer”

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Doug Pagitt’s “Body Prayer”

by Bob DeWaay Critical Issues Commentary Doug Pagitt, Emergent Church leader, wrote a book (coauthored by Kathryn Prill) that claims that using various body postures can bring people closer to God and deepen one’s life of prayer.1 Here is an example of some of the claims of this book: Engaging the body in acts of being present with God, including certain ceremonial practices, opens us up...

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