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You’ve heard about the Purpose Driven Life for Catholics, but did you ever think it would lead to a major evangelization project by the Church of Rome that targets Protestant Christians? Catholics Come Home: God’s Extraordinary Plan for Your Life is the name of a new book that is taking Rome and the world by [...]

The Christian Post is actually promoting earth worship as a way to get engage teens and keep them from leaving the Church. In an article titled, Reversing the Trend of Teens Leaving the Church: Using Climate Change to Reengage Our Youth, Deborah Fikes opines that we can stem the tide of teens abandoning their faith [...]

Today we are seeing the mystical type of contemplative practices that date back to the eastern practices of Buddhists and Hindus, including a type of mantra-style breath prayer that many say can bring us to a higher consciousness to experience God. Rick Warren, as evidenced by his Tweet today about this practice, is a proponent [...]

One of our program guests has been Ray Yungen, a researcher and expert on the New Age and how it has crept into the Church. The Lighthouse Trails Blog today is featuring some of Ray’s writing, and in light of what we’ve covered this week I thought it would be helpful for you to see [...]

Joel Osteen? T.D. Jakes???  This is quite a Facebook Post from Pastor Rick Warren. Here he tells is fans which senior pastors — the top 100 in fact – that he recommends his fans follow on Twitter. Here is the exact post, but you can also follow the link above and see the strange conversation [...]

Why should you need to be familiar with the word, “Davos?” Because Davos, Switzerland, was the site of the World Economic Forum back in 2008. Before your eyes glaze over, let me open them by sharing something Sarah Leslie, a phenomenal researcher and Emergent expert over at Herescope, shared on our program today. In Davos, [...]

Today we talked about the Emergent church and how it is now Converging. If you missed that interview with Herescope’s Sarah Leslie, you will want to download it and listen. If you listen to just ONE podcast on Stand Up For The Truth, this is it. With that in mind, you’ll be able to understand [...]

The 2013/2014 conference circuit makes for some strange bedfellows. We’re trying not to get worked up about “guilt by association,” but at some point you just have to wonder how teachers of different “gospels” can find unity? Saddleback’s Rick Warren is teaming up with Joel Osteen and “Bishop” T.D. Jakes for the Hillsong Conference in [...]

Are you hearing words like “Missional,” “Multiplication,” “Acceleration,” “Church Growth,” “Future Travelers,” and “DiscipleSHIFT?” Then you might have been exposed to the Exponential conference happening in the Purpose-Seeker-mergent Church. Folks, it is everywhere these days. But is it in the Bible? What is this movement is really about, and why are so many mainline evangelical [...]

Dallas Willard, whom many credit for promoting contemplative prayer, has passed away. Dallas Albert Willard was born on 4 September 1935 and educated at Baylor University, the William Jewell College and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Sadly, his legacy also includes not only propagating Contemplative spirituality into the Church along with his mentor, Richard Foster, but [...]