Category: Spiritual Formation

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THE PERILS OF 'WANNABE MYSTIC' CHRISTIANITY BRETT MCCRACKEN »

Apprising Ministries brings to your attention an article by Brett McCracken called The Perils of ‘Wannabe Cool’ Christianity, which appeared online yesterday at The Wall Street Journal. If you didn’t know, the title of this piece is a play off the title of McCracken’s just published book Hipster Christianity: Where Church and Cool Collide. His book bio tells us that his […]

THE EMERGING CHURCH, MIKE MORRELL, AND MARCUS BORG »

The online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries has told you 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 has grown into a full-blown neo-liberal cult operating within its walls; and what we’re now dealing with is an upgraded Emerging Church 2.0 complete with its new version […]

SEDUCING SPIRITS SOUNDING THE SAME »

 Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons. (1 Timothy 4:1) Demons Do Have Doctrines and One Of Them Is So-Called Great “Human Potential” As an example of what I mean in the title of this semi-reductio Apprising Ministries piece, here’s […]

PRISCILLA SHIRER AND CONTEMPLATIVE/CENTERING PRAYER »

Apprising Ministries reminded you recently in Beth Moore Attacks The Protestant Reformation that both Moore and Priscilla Shirer were part of the Be Still…And Know That I Am God DVD, which is a veritable ode to a form of meditation in an altered state of consciousness known as Contemplative/Centering Prayer (CCP). And as I’ve mentioned before, this so-called prayer […]

THE INWARD JOURNEY OF CONTEMPLATIVE/CENTERING PRAYER »

The Bible nowhere describes an inward journey to explore the realm of the spirit. God chose to reveal the truth about spiritual reality through His ordained, Spirit-inspired, biblical writers. What is spiritual and not revealed by God is of the occult and, therefore, forbidden. We have discussed this in many articles and have produced DVD […]

CROSSTALK INTERVIEW: EVANGELICAL LEADERS PUSHING MYSTICISM »

Apprising Ministries correspondent Christine Pack of Sola Sisters tells us of her interview today on the Crosstalk radio program of Ingrid Schlueter today: During the show, I briefly went over my own testimony of being mercifully saved out of New Age Spirituality (also called New Spirituality), only to find that the same mysticism I had once practiced was now […]

EVANGELICALISM NOW REAPING WHAT IT HAS SOWN »

Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. (Galatians 6:7-8)  Church Growth Techniques Sowed To The Flesh   For […]

SADDLEBACK CHURCH, RICK WARREN, AND SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINES »

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? (1 Corinthians 5:6) A Lump Of Mystic Leaven Is Rising Apprising Ministries picks up where we left off in Rick Warren Saddleback Church, And Spiritual Disciplines, which began in Steve Gladen, Saddleback Church Small Groups, And Quaker Mystic Spirituality, where I […]

THE BIBLE DOESN'T GIVE US A SET OF TECHNIQUES TO HEAR INNER VOICES AND CALL THESE TECHNIQUES “PRAYER” »

God has not left us to fish around in the world of spirits and subjective experiences to know Him and speak to Him. God send His Son, who pre-existed as God and with God, to be born of a virgin and live in history in the flesh. The apostles heard Him, touched Him and saw […]

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