Category: Spiritual Formation

DR. JAY MCDANIEL AND MYSTICISM AT NORTHWEST NAZARENE UNIVERSITY »

Along with other online apologetics and discernment ministries such as Lighthouse Trails Reseach (LTR) here at Apprising Ministries I’m doing what I can to alert you as to how far corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) ala Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster, with an assist from his spiritual twin Dallas Willard, has now penetrated mainstream evangelicalism.
You need to understand that this refried Roman Catholic Counter Reformation [...]

MYSTICISM: WHEN GOD SENDS AN EVIL SPIRIT »

Apprising Ministries has warned in posts e.g. Calvinist Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism? and Disciplines To Deception In Southern Baptist Convention that for years now Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) as taught by Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster along with his spiritual twin and Southern Baptist minister Dallas Willard has been rapidly spreading throughout mainstream evangelicalism under the guise of spurious Spiritual Formation (SF).
I’m doing what I can as a former Roman [...]

TIM KELLER ALSO PROMOTING MYSTIC GURU PETER SCAZZERO? »

Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? (1 Corinthians 5:6, ESV)
Romanticizing Rome
It would appear so. A while back Apprising Ministries told you that Rick Warren And Peter Scazzero Are Up To Monk-ee Business and also asked is: Tim Keller Endorsing Counter-Reformation Contemplative Spirituality? Briefly, Leadership Network’s propped up Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren has actually been been [...]

9 MARKS: INTERVARSITY PRESS SEEMS ADRIFT »

 Apprising Ministries has long been warning that apostatizing pretending to be Protestant evangelicalism is paying a heavy price for its foolish embrace of the sinfully ecumenial Emerging Church aka Emergent Church—which morphed into Emergence Christianity (EC). The EC was a Trojan Horse that unloaded corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) ala Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster—and his spiritual twin Dallas Willard—within [...]

RICK WARREN AND PETER SCAZZERO UP TO MONK-EE BUSINESS »

Apprising Ministries has already told you that Leadership Network’s propped up Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren has actually been been up to spiritual monk-ee business for years now in pushing the door open for corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) ala Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster—and his spiritual twin Dallas Willard—within the mainstream of evangelicalism. Leadership Network (LN) has long pushed the [...]

BRUTAL TRUTH ABOUT CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY/MYSTICISM »

HT: Pirate Christian Radio
See also:
CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY CATALYST PETER SCAZZERO
CALVINIST CONTEMPLATIVE/CENTERING PRAYER?
DONALD WHITNEY AND EVANGELICAL CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY/MYSTICISM
RICHARD FOSTER’S LEGACY ENDURES: CHRISTIAN LEADERS HELP TO MAKE IT SO
THE TERMINOLOGY TRAP OF “SPIRITUAL FORMATION”
CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY OF RICHARD FOSTER ROOTED IN THE EASTERN DESERT AND THOMAS MERTON
PASTOR KEN SILVA—THE HIJACKING OF EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANITY

LUTHERAN CHURCH MISSOURI SYNOD: COMMISSION ON MINISTERIAL GROWTH ENDORSES CONTEMPLATIVE/CENTERING PRAYER »

Apprising Ministries has warned in posts e.g. Calvinist Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism? and Disciplines To Deception In Southern Baptist Convention that for years now Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) as taught by Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster along with his spiritual twin and Southern Baptist minister Dallas Willard has been rapidly spreading throughout mainstream evangelicalism under the guise of spurious Spiritual Formation.
What follows is yet another sad case in point. Yesterday in More [...]

CALVINIST CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY/MYSTICISM? »

They are filled with influences from the east,… (Isaiah 2:6, NASB)
Protestantism Returning To Dark Ages?
Apprising Ministries began looking into this question in Confusion Concerning Calvinist Spirituality? Therein I followed up a tip from a reader concerning The Village Church (TVC) where Matt Chandler, a professing Calvinist, is pastor. Let me be crystal clear here; I am well aware of pastor Chandler’s current situation with his battling a malignant brain tumor, and [...]

DANGERS OF CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY/MYSTICISM: LECTIO DIVINA »

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)
Right Back To The Dark Ages
Following a trail that was initially cut by the online apologetics and discernment ministry Lighthouse Trails Research years before Apprising Ministries has been covering [...]

WHICH SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINES? »

The following look at The Dangers of Spiritual Formation and Spiritual Disciplines is taken from a review by Bob DeWaay, pastor of  Twin City Fellowship, of the book The Spirit of the Disciplines by Dallas Willard:
The spiritual disciplines that are supposedly necessary for spiritual formation are not defined in the Bible. If they were, there would be [...]

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