Category: New Spirituality
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 6, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Features, New Spirituality, Rob Bell, Youth Ministry
The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. (1 Timothy 4:1)
Drinking Deadly Deception From The Poisoned Well Of Murky Mysticism
One Sunday morning recently Rob Bell, an icon in the postliberal cult of the Emergent Church and teaching pastor at Mars Hill Bible Church, taught his [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 5, 2008 in AM Missives, Apologetics, Brian McLaren, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Dan Kimball, Doug Pagitt, Emergent Church, Erwin McManus, Features, Henri Nouwen, Joel Osteen, John Hagee, Marcus Borg, New Spirituality, Richard Abanes, Richard Foster, Rick Warren, Rob Bell, Robert Schuller, Roman Catholicism, Shane Claiborne/New Monasticism, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation, T.D. Jakes, Theology, Tony Campolo, Tony Jones
A man-centered gospel is the belief that the determining factor in whether or not a man is eternally saved, in the end, relies (at some level) upon an act of his own will i.e. human decision. This is often called synergism because it is thought to be a cooperative effort between God and man. While [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 25, 2008 in AM Missives, Emergent Church, New Spirituality, Rob Bell
As Apprising Ministries pointed out in Rob Bell, Yoga Masters and Jesus? in a sermon on breathing by Emergent Church leader and icon Rob Bell he informs us:
[In Yoga] it’s not how flexible you are, it’s not whether you can do the poses, it’s not how much you can bend yourself, it’s can you keep your breath [breathes [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 22, 2008 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Features, New Spirituality, Richard Foster, Spiritual Formation, Youth Ministry
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 [...]
By AM on Nov 21, 2008 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Features, New Spirituality, Radio Appearances, Rob Bell
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 [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 18, 2008 in Current Issues, New Spirituality
The following is actually right in line with a couple of recent Apprising Ministries articles Emerging Eastern-Style Meditation for Global Peace…and Worse… along with Phyllis Tickle: Tickling Itching Emergent Ears.
Breitbart.com is reporting:
A website launched Friday with the backing of technology industry and Hollywood elite urges people worldwide to help craft a framework for harmony between all [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 14, 2008 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Doug Pagitt, Emergent Church, Features, New Spirituality, Richard Foster, Rob Bell, Shane Claiborne/New Monasticism, Spiritual Formation, Tony Campolo, Youth Ministry
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 [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 21, 2008 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, New Spirituality
Through the Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism currently infesting the Christian community inherent in The Ecumenical Church Of Deceit (ECoD) of postevangelicalism today we are seeing a new reimagined Gnosticism emerging from mystical encounters allegedly with God. However, as you will come to see this idea of a mystical union of the soul with God which is so common to many [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 18, 2008 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, New Spirituality, Spiritual Formation
They are full of superstitions from the East; they practice divination like the Philistines and clasp hands with pagans. (Isaiah 2:6)
Selfish Subjectivity With Scripture Invites In Spurious Spirituality
Apprising Ministries has recently been laboring to show that it’s simply beyond question the vast majority of those in leadership within postevangelicalism and the Emerging Church actually hold to [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 5, 2008 in New Spirituality
As pointed out in Oprah Winfrey A Christian? people often ask me here at Apprising Ministries if Oprah Winfrey is a Christian. The following should answer this question once and for all. Here is Oprah’s “Christian” testimony from her own lips.
This is taken directly from a transcript of her “New Earth” online class with New [...]
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