They are full of superstitions from the East; they practice divination like the Philistines and clasp hands with pagans. (Isaiah 2:6)
“But Don’t Go Confusing Me With The Facts; I’ve Already Made Up My Mind!”
Apprising Ministries, in the time we have left, will continue alerting the Body of Christ to the dangers of Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) with its chief practice Contemplative/Centering [...]

In his sermon I will say it again, and again, and again, Sunday November 16, 2008, Emergent Church icon Rob Bell shares a common mantra of those neo-Gnostics involved in the Contemplative/Centering Prayer of Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism.
For them it is the mystics in various religious traditions who are the great enlightened ones. Bell says:
It’s interesting how many traditions [...]

A recent edition of Fighting for the Faith podcast hosted by Chris Rosebrough also featured Ken Silva of Apprising Ministries joining him in breaking down a recent sermon by Emerging Church icon Rob Bell where he attempts to exegete Philippians 3: 2 — Watch out for those dogs, those men who do evil, those mutilators of the flesh.
On this program, which [...]

Come, O house of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the LORD. You have abandoned your people, the house of Jacob. They are full of superstitions from the East; they practice divination like the Philistines and clasp hands with pagans. (Isaiah 2:5-6)
Eastern-Style Meditation As The Bridge To Unite All Religions And Transform Mankind
Building on It’s High Time To Realize [...]

How long will this continue in the hearts of these lying prophets, who prophesy the delusions of their own minds? (Jeremiah 23:26)
Forward Back Into The Ancient-Future Of A Reimagined Christianity Already Condemned
Ok, so here’s the deal via a little reductio ad absurdum, which may actually be synonymous with postevangelcalism; but that’s for another day. Now, [...]

But I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man, but to remain quiet.
(1 Timothy 2:12, NASB)
After listening to this deluded drivel about going “into the great silence” from monkette wannabe “Pastor” Ruth Haley Barton, who’s already in violation of God’s Word, I found the Lord really illuminating the critical importance of the second clause [...]

Over at Bible Study Notes we see an in-depth look at some of the teachings of Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster, which begins:
Richard Foster’s writings have been at the forefront of the contemplative movement since the 1970s. No one has done more than this man to spread contemplative mysticism throughout Protestant and Baptist churches.
Foster’s book Celebration [...]

This short post is related to the Apprising Ministries article Biola University Now Drifting From Evangelical Protestant Roots? Over at From the Lighthouse… we’re informed:
On October 21st, someone from the Media Relations department at Biola University contacted Lighthouse Trails because of articles we have posted about Biola’s promotion of contemplative spirituality. The person, who asked not to be [...]

Lane Chaplin put together the below You Tube clip with Ken Silva of Apprising Ministries joining Ingrid Schlueter on her Crosstalk radio program to address an important aspect the current drift away from Sola Scriptura in contemporary evangelicalism. In Christianity Today Promoting the Cult of Richard Foster a few of weeks back we told you about a feature interview with Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker [...]

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation, namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses [...]