By Pastor Larry DeBruyn of Guarding His Flock Ministries, republished here with permission: Contemplative Prayer and the Lord’s Prayer “For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful. What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also.” 1 Corinthians 14:14-15a, KJV Between contemplative spirituality [...]

By Apprising Ministries special correspondent Bob DeWaay There are no extraordinary Christians; but being an ordinary Christian is an extraordinary thing. How I wish I would have understood that when I was a new Christian. But I didn’t. Soon after my conversion I began a quest to become the best possible Christian. In so doing I fell prey [...]

By Apprising Ministries special correspondent Bob DeWaay Church history tells us that the charge pietistic reformers level against the church is that the church practices “dead orthodoxy.” Some years ago I hosted a pastor’s meeting at which pastors could discuss theological ideas. Position papers were presented and then critiqued by the group. Some of the pastors came from [...]

They did not destroy the peoples, as the LORD commanded them, but they mixed with the nations and learned to do as they did. They served their idols, which became a snare to them. (Psalm 106:34-36) CSM Was A Core Doctrine Of The Emerging Church We can point to Apprising Ministries articles Beth Moore The Mystic and Alabama Baptist Convention (SBC) Encourages You [...]

By Apprising Ministries special correspondent Bob DeWaay In February 2008, Christianity Today ran a glowing cover story about Evangelicalism’s recent embrace of medieval Roman Catholic mysticism entitled The Future lies in the Past.1 The article traced the beginning of the movement as follows: “The movement seems to have exploded in a 24-month period in 1977-1978, which saw the publication of Richard [...]

Apprising Ministries wants you to know that Peter Scazzero, a leading Protholic guru—not really Protestant, not yet Roman Catholic—is set to spread further his corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM). It’s important here to keep in mind that Scazzero is a perfect illustration of the spiritual damage done by the cult of Foster-Willardism; CSM gurus SBC minister Dallas [...]

The following by Dr. Gary Gilley, pastor of Southern View Chapel, is republished at Apprising Ministries with permission: (April/May 2012 – Volume 18, Issue 2) Of all the spiritual disciplines the Spiritual Formation Movement promotes, none is more important than prayer and the intake of God’s Word. On the surface we would expect little resistance [...]

I really must tell you that there’s really no easy way to say what I’m about to tell you in this particular piece. As a direct fruit of the the sinfully ecumenical Emergent Church aka the Emerging Church, a neo-liberal cult now operating within mainstream of the church visible, the heart of the evangelical community is fast becoming [...]

The following by Dr. Gary Gilley, pastor of Southern View Chapel, is republished at Apprising Ministries with permission: (February/March 2012 – Volume 18, Issue 1) Almost everyone on the cutting edge of Christianity is talking about spiritual formation.  From books to magazine articles to sermons to seminary courses, spiritual formation is a hot topic.  What [...]

Apprising Ministries has been on the front edge warning you of the spread within confessional evangelicalism of corrupt Counter Reformation Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM). CSM is a repackaged Roman Catholic mysticism, taught by the dubious duo of Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster along with his spiritual twin Dallas Willard under the guise of so-called Spiritual Formation. That’s why [...]