Category: Richard Foster
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 26, 2009 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Richard Foster, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation, Youth Ministry
DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA!
Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all handed down to the saints.
For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 20, 2009 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Richard Foster, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation, Youth Ministry
DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA!
The following quote is from the latest Critcal Issues Commentary article Richard Foster — Celebration Of Deception Evangelical Mysticism by Bob DeWaay, pastor of Twin City Fellowship and highlights another aspect of a growing rebellion within mainstream evangelicalism against Sola Scriptura. Within DeWaay sends a clear Biblical warning concerning this core teaching of Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism from Living [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 6, 2009 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Devotions, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Quotes, Richard Foster, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation, Youth Ministry
The Disciplines recommended by Foster, as well as his whole spiritual formation system, are derived from the mystics. His list of recommended spiritual masters is witness to this: Ignatius of Loyola (p. 66); Teresa of Avila (p. 166); Jeremy Taylor; William Law; Dallas Willard (pp. 24, 80, 153); Henri Nouwen (pp. 64-65, 110); Father Anthony [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 19, 2009 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Features, Richard Foster, Spiritual Formation
Over at the online apologetics and discernment ministry Slice of Laodicea pastor Larry DeBruyn has a short piece concerning the plague of so-called “spiritual directors” currently infecting the visible church:
Regardless of what you might think of the operation of spiritual gifts—whether all of them, some of them, or none of them are operative today—we should [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 9, 2009 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Richard Foster, Rob Bell, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation, Youth Ministry
In his latest article at Christian Issues Commentary, which is a must read, pastor Bob DeWaay weighs in on “spiritual disciplines” as it concerns Donald Whitney and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
DeWaay notes the close similarity between Whitney’s teachings and those of Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster. Within DeWaay’s scholarly piece he correctly points out that the subjective list [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 19, 2009 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Richard Foster
We have much to say about this, but it is hard to explain because you are slow to learn. (Hebrews 5:11)
The Lord Spoke To Me…Well, I Think I’m Pretty Sure He Did
Those familiar with Apprising Ministries will know that a major focus of this online discernment and apologetics ministry (ODAM) is corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM), and its main practice [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 1, 2009 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Richard Foster
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 2:6)
Foster Drinks Deeply From The Murky Mystical Well Of Roman Catholic Monk Merton
Apprising Ministries continues pointing out that the Contemplative/Centering Prayer, or so-called Christian meditation, of Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) is really [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 30, 2009 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Features, Richard Foster
From the Lighthouse blog has an important look at Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster and his spurious spirituality rooted in the Counter Reformation of apostate Roman Catholicism:
This article hopes to reveal the underlying nature of Foster’s spirituality and to reject the recommendations of these Christian figures who rather than warning the body of Christ about Foster’s spiritual formation, [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 16, 2009 in AM Mailbag, AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Richard Foster, Spiritual Formation
The following is from unsolicited email received from a brother pastor-teacher and is published with his permission. He was writing in response to the recent Apprising Ministries article Richard Foster A Reliable Source For Proper Christian Spirituality?
Sadly, Celebration of Discipline, a piece of spiritual skubalon by Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster, which Dr. Gary Gilley has rightly called “a virtual encyclopedia [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 14, 2009 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Richard Foster, Spiritual Formation
Then the LORD said to me, “The prophets are prophesying falsehood in My name I have neither sent them nor commanded them nor spoken to them; they are prophesying to you a false vision, divination, futility and the deception of their own minds.” (Jeremiah 14:14, NASB)
Hammering Out The Golden Buddha Of The Mystic Mush God
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