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THE LIGHT THAT WAS DARK: From the New Age to Amazing Grace - by Warren B. Smith
Description: The Light That Was Dark is a sober warning to the world and to the Church. Author Warren Smith learned some hard lessons as a spiritual seeker. Concerned that today’s Church is being seduced by the same false teachings and same false Christ that drew him into the New Age, Smith shares his story…
"Led down a yellow brick road by pied piper spirits, I had, with the best intentions, landed in a metaphysical New Age where the Christ proclaimed was not the real Christ at all. A well-orchestrated and exquisitely timed series of supernatural synchronistic experiences had convinced me that my involvement in alternative spirituality was meant to be.
"Following the signs and wonders of deceptive spirits, I had jumped through my spiritual hoops with almost flawless precision.
As Joy and I both had unknowingly plugged into the spirit world, we never realized that most of the voices we were listening to were part of the deception the real Jesus had warned about."
—Warren Smith, from The Light That Was Dark
About the Author
Warren Smith (B.A., University of Pennsylvania; M.S.W., Tulane University) is a freelance writer and community social worker who was formerly involved in the New Age movement. He has served as a program coordinator for people with special needs, directed several homeless programs, and has worked most recently as a Hospice social worker in New Orleans and on the California coast. He has written extensively on the subject of spiritual deception and has been widely interviewed on radio and television.
Warren Smith's published books include: Reinventing Jesus Christ, The Light That Was Dark - From the New Age to Amazing Grace, Deceived on Purpose: The New Age Implications of the Purpose Driven Church, A "Wonderful" Deception: The Further New Age Implications of the Purpose Driven Church, False Christ Coming: Does Anybody Care?, Watering The Greyhound Garden, and "Another Jesus" Calling: How False Christs Are Entering the Church Through Contemplative Prayer, and a devotional book, Pressing On Through It All - Scriptural Encouragement For These Last Days.
Title: The Light That Was Dark: From the New Age to Amazing Grace
Author: Warren B. Smith
Paperback: 168 pages
Publisher: Mountain Stream Press; 1992, 2005, 2nd Printing—Feb 2008
Language: English
ISBN-978-0-9763492-1-1
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.5 x 8.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 8.6 ounces
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The SpiritJournaling.com website, in particular, serves a vital purpose by exposing and warning against the dangers of occult/spiritistic practices in the world and the Church. This website will help you know the spiritual hazards of the Jesus Calling Series and how to stand against this dangerous threat. It will also help you not be misled by the massive onslaught of unbiblical, occult, telepathic, sensory-oriented "messages" from unbiblical spiritual entities that masquerade as "Jesus." The "Jesus" of Sarah Young's Jesus Calling Series is one of these dangerous spiritistic false Christ deceptions. The proof is in her writings.
Sadly, the 45 million-plus readers of Sarah Young's Jesus Calling devotional series have no idea that 50 Occult training principles are embedded throughout the Series. Brenna E. Scott's eight-year book research project reveals these principles in Sarah Young's books. At SpiritJournaling.com, Brenna's book can be read online for FREE. Hard copies can be obtained from our store. Click Christian Journaling or Psychic Channeling?: A Critical Comparison of the Jesus Calling Series with Occult Training Literature.
Some of the more glaring examples of dangerous occult influences entering the Church are "Christianized" versions of psychic methodologies, such as telepathy, clairaudience, clairsentience, and even necromancy (communicating with the dead). One such example can be found in the first chapter of Warren B. Smith's book, The Titanic and Today's Church—A Tale of Two Shipwrecks. This chapter warns about a variation of necromancy that Pastor Steve Berger and his wife Sarah have been promoting for many years. See these two booklets, Dead Men Talking: Necromancy In Today's Church and Promise Keepers, Steve Berger, and the Dangerous Implications of Ignoring Necromancy in the Church.
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