LTRP Note: With permission, we are posting this letter from a reader who wrote this to our author, Roger Oakland.
Don’t know if you remember me or not. I wrote you some time back regarding how much I loved your book Let There Be Light. I just had to write you again. I am now leading a book study at our church on your book. I am so excited about it. My Pastor asked me if I would lead it because I had read it and highly recommended it. Well, I said I would, but I tell you Roger, that is totally out of the box for me.
Anyways, we are doing 3 different books, and my group is mostly a group of ladies from “Teen Challenge.” It’s a recovery/rehab program for people of various addictions. It is a Christian program. Love all these people, and I was so very nervous. The enemy attacked me all week long, telling me no one will like this book, and they will think I’m a ditso, and I will look like a fool. But, I didn’t let it overcome me. Sooooo, we had our first meeting last Tuesday and wow, they loved it. We only do a couple chapters at a time and have discussion. They didn’t want the hour to be over and wanted so much to take their books home. But they have to wait until our next meeting. The Pastor said they came out chattering about how good it was and can’t wait until next week. Yeah!
I know you are a humble man, but I still had to write and tell you. As I said before I was so very touched by your book. I am praying that these ladies will also be touched, and I feel they will be. They are trying to get their lives together and I think a book like this will give them great hope. So God bless you for sharing your story.
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Eureka, MT – November 28, 2011 – Lighthouse Trails Publishing is pleased to announce the release of Let There Be Light by Roger Oakland.
OVERVIEW OF LET THERE BE LIGHT: Roger Oakland heads to university with the morals and values of his Christian parents intact. When he enters school, he believes in God as a Creator, but soon exchanges this for Darwinian evolution. After graduation, he begins teaching biology (with an emphasis on evolution) at the same university. Challenged one day by a young Christian student, Roger mocks the whole idea of Creation and God.
Through a series of painful circumstances, including the death of a baby son, he begins searching for answers to life – until one day he has a dramatic experience when hit with the realization that God created everything.
Becoming a creationist and later a committed born-again Christian, Roger’s life is radically changed, and he is filled with a passion to tell others about God. Little does he know at the time that he will travel throughout the world to share his message.
Through his research, he finds a connection between evolution and the New Age. He discovers that multitudes of people are rejecting the idea of a Creator God and replacing it with an impersonal panentheistic “God.” Much to his alarm, Roger learns that New Age concepts, such as this evolutionary “God,” are being absorbed into mainstream Christianity.
As time progresses, Roger realizes that the Christian church is heading down a dangerous road of apostasy. He comes head to head with Christian leaders whom he learns are guiding believers toward a one-world religion via the Roman Catholic church through mysticism and the emerging church. The cost of telling the truth and warning the church is high for Roger Oakland. Within his own denomination, Calvary Chapel, he begins to see signs of spiritual deception. He works tirelessly to teach and warn about the coming apostasy. Eventually, he realizes that both he and his message are being rejected by leaders that he tried to support for so many years.
From the wheat fields of Saskatchewan to the classrooms of evolutionary humanism, to a fallen USSR to poverty-stricken villages in Myanmar, through personal pain and loss, Roger shares his message to over 130 countries. This apologetics biography will inspire you to give all for the sake of Christ and His Gospel. Click here to order or for more information.