In Eat This Book (ETB), which is about the supposed critical importance of using Lectio Divina (LD), a Roman Catholic practice of Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM), Eugene Peterson calls Hans  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-1988) “the twentieth century’s premier theologian on Christian spirituality” and tells us that Balthasar “insisted that in matters of spirituality it is form that […]

Eugene Peterson is a devotee of the corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism spewed by Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster and his spiritual twin SBC minister Dallas Willard as their spurious Spiritual Formation. At this point it’s very important for you to understand that this CSM, and its “Christian” form of transcendental meditation called Contemplative/Centering Prayer, originally flowered in the antibiblical monastic traditions of […]

The importance of poetry and novels is that the Christian life involves the use of the imagination, after all, we are dealing with the invisible. And, imagination is our training in dealing with the invisible, making connections… I don’t want to do away with or denigrate theology or exegesis, but our primary allies in this […]

Just like Shoeless Joe, I’m afraid I also can’t say it ain’t so; for it appears ‘tis true according to News Talk WTAQ and Hollywood Staff reporter Shannon Houston’s May 11th post How Controversial Will Oprah’s Role as God in Her New Christian-Themed Movie Be? Houston informs us: Last year when Oprah Winfrey and Forest Whitaker teamed up, it […]

Apprising Ministries is doing what we can to warn you of a growing apostasy that I could never have imagined in my wildest dreams. With it has come a growing syncretism as the Gospel shifts from repentance and forgiveness of sins in Jesus’ Name to let’s all work together to make the world a better place. […]

The following by Dr. Gary Gilley, pastor of Southern View Chapel, is republished at Apprising Ministries with permission: One of the most popular and strongly promoted activities within spiritual formation is known as “The Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius Loyola.” As the name implies, these are exercises or activities invented by the Roman Catholic monk Ignatius […]

The following by Dr. Gary Gilley, pastor of Southern View Chapel, is republished at Apprising Ministries with permission: As we have seen in the last two Think on These Things articles, “Spiritual formation is viewed by a growing number of evangelicals as an ancient ministry of the church, concerned with the ‘forming’ or ‘shaping’ of a believer’s […]

By Pastor Larry DeBruyn of Guarding His Flock Ministries, republished here with permission: Spectacles, Stories and Diminishing Scripture “And do not become idolaters as were some of them. As it is written, ‘The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play’.” (1 Corinthians 10:7, NKJV) “Believers, Beware!” EXODUS THIRTY-TWO may soon be coming to a theater-church near you! […]

EVANGULLIBLE [ee-van guhl’-uh-buhl] [Evangelical: 1525–35;  < Late Latin evangelicus  (< Late Greek euangelikós; see evangel1 , -ic) + -al1]  [Gullible: easily taken in or tricked; earlier cullibility, probably connected to gull, a cant term for “dupe, sucker.” It is perhaps from the bird (see gull (n.), or from verb gull “to swallow” (1530, from O.Fr. goule, […]

Coming Soon! The E.T. Bible By Jove! AUTHORIZED INTERGALACTIC VERSION 1.0 For years there has been a discussion among missiologists and linguists concerning the proper translation of certain biblical passages into various languages in the entire world. Now, with the E.T. Bible, translation goes out of this world! This cosmic Bible is truly Universal in […]