Apprising Ministries draws to your attention a story in The Leaf Chronicle of Clarksville, TN; yes, that Clarksville, concerning the way more and more who profess Christianity are currently becoming involved with the corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) at the heart of spurious Spiritual Formation snake-oil sold by Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster.
Given a veneer of scholasticism by Foster’s spiritual twin Dallas Willard, at its rotten [...]

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 [...]

In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I give you this charge: Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction.
For the time will come [...]

knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone’s own interpretation. For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit. (2 Peter 1:20-21, ESV)
Physical Training Is Of Some Value, But Godliness Has Value For All [...]

They were continually devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. (Acts 2:42, NASB)
Disciples Of Christ Growing In The Lord Through The Means Of Grace
Today we are witnessing the spread of The Cult of Guru Richard Foster deep within mainstream Protestant evangelicalism and with it a neo-pietism masquerading [...]

It happened that while Jesus was praying in a certain place, after He had finished, one of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, teach us to pray just as John also taught his disciples.” (Luke 11:1, NASB)
Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism Was Never Part Of Christ’s Doctrine 
In that verse from Luke 11 our Lord Christ Jesus of Nazareth was [...]

Evangelical Rip Van Winkles Call A Quaker Mystic For Their Bedtime Stories
An encyclopedia of theological error…um, but other than that it’s pretty good. By now it’s become quite obvious that evangelicalism is deep into her lust affair with the repackaged “Christian” mysticism of Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster who is hands down the leading proponent [...]

At this point as we are Meditating On Contemplative/Centering Prayer I am going to shift gears a bit and begin to take a closer look at why it is we’re told we must practice the so-called “Christian” meditation of Contemplative/Centering Prayer (CCP)—that actually flowered in the antibiblical monastic traditions of apostate Roman Catholicism and which is central to the theology of [...]

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 [...]

It’s Late And Do You Know Who’s Instructing Your Pastors?
We will begin with this past year’s 2008 Zondervan National Pastors Conference (NPC) where the NPC 2008 website at the time informed us that pastors who attended were encouraged to avail themselves of a “special overnight retreat” where, with the help of “The Transforming Center leaders,” they could “experience [...]