For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths. (2 Timothy 4:3-4, NASB)
Phyllis, Please Tickle Our Ears…
In “The Great Emergence: [...]

Appealing To Apostate Roman Catholic Monks For Protestant “Spiritual Formation”
Due to the importance of the issues concerning the influx into evangelicalism of corrupt Contemplative/Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) and its so-called “Christian” meditation of Contemplative/Centering Prayer(CCP)—which flowered in the antibiblical monastic traditions of apostate Roman Catholicism, i.e. no longer Christian—Apprising Ministries is doing all we can to bring this [...]

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 [...]

Appealing To Apostate Roman Catholic Mystics For Protestant “Spiritual Formation”
Due to the importance of the issues concerning the influx into evangelicalism of corrupt Contemplative/Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) and its so-called “Christian” meditation of Contemplative/Centering Prayer(CCP)—which flowered in the antibiblical monastic traditions of apostate Roman Catholicism, i.e. no longer Christian—Apprising Ministries is doing all we can to bring this [...]

As we prepare to discuss the Contemplative Mystic Thomas Merton we will be entering the very Temple of the Contemplative Spirituality Movement (CSM) itself to touch one of its most “anointed” Buddhas. Those who teach Contemplative Spirituality Mysticism such as Richard Foster, the Quaker mystic who is listed among the “living spiritual teachers” at the [...]

They are full of superstitions from the East; they practice divination like the Philistines and clasp hands with pagans. (Isaiah 2:6)
Chanting With Roman Catholic Henri Nouwen In A Baptist Seminary
If you’ve been following this work in the Lord at Apprising Ministries you will have seen that I have written quite a bit lately about apostate [...]

Due to the importance of the issues concerning the influx into evangelicalism of corrupt Contemplative/Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) and its so-called “Christian” meditation of Contemplative/Centering Prayer (CCP)—which flowered in the antibiblical monastic traditions of apostate Roman Catholicism, i.e. no longer Christian—Apprising Ministries is doing all we can to bring this to the attention of the Body of [...]

In a continuing series Apprising Ministries seeks to introduce the Body of Christ to various teachers of a counterfeit Christianity through their neo-pagan “spiritual disciplines” of Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM), a corrupt spiritual blight which is currently spreading apostasy through the evangelical camp as quickly as an Oklahoma wildfire under the guise of “Spiritual Formation.”
Know this, [...]

Apprising Ministries wants you to know that:
F[ather] Thomas Ryan,CSP, [is] a catholic priest and certified Kripalu yoga teacher,coordinates ecumenical and inter-religious relations for the paulist community in the U.S. and Canada. His nine books include Reclaiming the Body in Christian Spirituality; The Sacred Art of Fasting; Four Steps to Spiritual Freedom; Prayer of Heart and [...]

This is part of an ongoing series here at Apprising Ministries on key players involved with Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) within postevangelicalism and the Emergent Church, in particular its chief corruption Contemplative/Centering Prayer. Here we take a look at  “St.” Teresa of Avila who was one of the superstars as it were of CSM. The idea here is to keep exposing [...]