Category: New Spirituality
By AM on Nov 21, 2008 in AM Missives, 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 wants you to know it’s simply beyond question that the vast majority of those in leadership within postevangelicalism and the Emerging Church hold to an existential [...]
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 [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 1, 2008 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Emergent Church, Features, Henri Nouwen, New Spirituality, Richard Foster, Rick Warren, Shane Claiborne/New Monasticism, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation, Youth Ministry
“…take one or two others along, so that ‘every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.’ ” (Matthew 18:16)
The Murky Mystic Shadows Of Spurious Spiritual Formation Loom Closer To You
In a court of law it is a common occurrence for trial lawyers to bring in expert witnesses from specialized fields in order [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 30, 2008 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Emergent Church, Features, New Spirituality, Richard Foster, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation, Youth Ministry
It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery. (Galatians 5:1, NASB)
Foster And Willard: Dynamic Duo With Their Disciplines Of Deception
Apprising Ministries warns you that under the guise of “Spiritual Formation” neo-pagan so-called “spiritual disciplines” have now slithered into the [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 30, 2008 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Features, New Spirituality, Richard Foster, Spiritual Formation, Youth Ministry
The idea here at Apprising Ministries is to begin helping you understand this New Spirituality as well as giving you a proper Christian perspective of it. Firmly rooted as it is in pagan Eastern religions which lurk beneath the New Age movement, this so-called “Christian” mysticism is right now slithering deep into the evangelical camp [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 30, 2008 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Emergent Church, New Spirituality, Richard Foster, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation
Apprising Ministries is very pleased to point you to this concise but dead on target review of the classic book which spawned The Cult of Guru Richard Foster. Gilley says:
Written over twenty-five hears ago, and proclaimed by Christianity Today as one of the ten best books of the twentieth century, the influence of Celebration of Discipline is [...]
If you are looking for archives that are easier to navigate, try our Archives page.