Stand Up for the Truth

The Bible warns us about a great delusion that will take place prior to the second coming of Jesus Christ. Jesus Himself wants to warn us so that we will be prepared, and said that many of us will fall away.  Is that delusion already underway in our Body of Christ today? We’ve talked about [...]

Not only has McLaren not backed down, but more and more leaders are joining him.  Check out the related articles at the end of this one. This is a piece the Lighthouse Trails Editors wrote a couple of years ago, and it is an excellent reminder in light of recent developments in which more and more emergent [...]

When bad spinach or broken brake lines harm consumers, a swift recall alert is issued to ensure no one else suffers from flawed or infected products.  So shouldn’t the same standard apply to products that harm us spiritually–perhaps even eternally?   Our guest today, Pirate Christian Radio’s Chris Rosebrough of Fighting for the Faith issued a [...]

Sometimes it’s easy to spot a fraud, and sometimes it takes a lot of thought and research.  People like Jim Wallis and Brian McLaren are pretty easy to call out for their false and misleading teachings and interpretations of scripture.  But not every issue we face is that simple.  The “Signs and Wonders” movement is [...]

  As I study this growing movement of Universalism and how it is infecting the Christian Church in America, there are a couple subtle, but important distinctions we must understand when confronting this movement of apostasy. First, the character and nature of God.  Universalists will often state that “God is love.”  Well, that is accurate, [...]

I remember when “The Shack” first came out—it seemed every Christian I knew was reading it.  A friend gave me a copy and encouraged me to read it.  As I started I just didn’t feel right about how the author was portraying God and I stopped reading it. I saw my friend who gave me [...]

Romans Chapter One says it all in the circumstances the world finds itself in these latter days.  The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness.  For although they knew God, they neither glorified God nor gave him thanks.  They [...]

A great article on the dangers of contextualization from Lighthouse Trails Research: November 5th, 2011 |  By Roger Oakland You may not have heard the term before, but contextual theology is a prominent message from the emerging church. In his book, Models of Contextual Theology(1992), Stephen B. Bevans defines contextual theology as: …a way of doing [...]

There is a great seduction going on—one that is very dangerous and we need to wake up to it quickly.  The Church in America seems to be under the spell of a modern day Jezebel.  She is seducing us into a false sense of what it means to be a Christian. She is whispering in [...]

John MacArthur is a wonderful, godly man whose teachings have been instrumental in the lives of many Christians.  He has been a staunch defender of the gospel through attacks from false teachers and continues to urge Christians to hold on to the absolute truth of God’s Word.  I thoroughly enjoy his books and teachings and [...]