This is a follow up to the Apprising Ministries article Ravi Zacharias International Ministries Defend Universalist Henri Nouwen and Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism. Therein we remind you of an earlier AM piece Ravi Zacharias Answers “Can A Person Live A Sincere Christian Life As A Homosexual?”  where you can hear Protestant evangelical apologist Zacharias say, “One of the greatest […]

Over at Slice of Laodicea Ingrid Schlueter writes: For those wondering about the strength of concern about Henri Nouwen and his defenders like Ravi Zacharias, here is an excerpt of a new book from David Cloud about this new mystical fascination in evangelicalism. This is taken from a press release regarding the book… (Online source) […]

A while back Apprising Ministries ran a piece called Ravi Zacharias Answers “Can A Person Live A Sincere Christian Life As A Homosexual?” where you can hear Protestant evangelical apologist Zacharias say, “One of the greatest saints of recent memory was Henri Nouwen.” Just the other day an AM reader sent along to us the letter below which they […]

Henry Nouwen: One of the discoveries we make in [contemplative/centering] prayer is that the closer we come to God, the closer we come to all our brothers and sisters in the human family. God is not a private God. The God who dwells in our inner sanctuary is also the God who dwells in the […]

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) Be Careful What You Go […]

This piece from the Apprising Ministries Mailbag is published with the permission of its author. The article they refer to below is Who Is Henri Nouwen?:   Ken, interesting informative article on Nouwen, thanks. I know you saw Phil’s post “streams of conscisness” with the Emerging Church commenter . Check out his profile, and favorite books. It […]

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 […]

Here the apostate Roman Catholic priest Henri Nouwen (1932-1996) tells us that one of the “discoveries” that comes through the antibiblical practice of Contemplative/Centering Prayer is the delusion that God is living within every human being. Apprising Ministries shows you from the Bible why this is false in our piece Understanding the New Spirituality—God Indwells […]

Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace; the sinful […]

Practices called “spiritual disciplines” that are deemed necessary for “spiritual formation” have entered evangelicalism. Recent encounters with this teaching narrated to me by friends caused me to investigate these practices. The first experience involved my friend and co-worker Ryan Habbena who went back to seminary to finish his masters degree. Here is his experience in […]