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By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 4, 2008 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Dallas Willard, Richard Foster, Spiritual Formation | Comments Off on SPIRITUAL FORMATION IS PIETISM REIMAGINED
This short piece from Apprising Ministries is to help you recognize that more and more people are becoming convinced through the dubious doctrines of spurious Spiritual Formation to see corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) and its Contemplative/Centering Prayer (CCP), which flowered in the antibiblical monastic traditions of apostate Roman Catholicism as a viable way to approach […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 1, 2008 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Emergent Church, Features, Richard Foster, Rick Warren, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation | Comments Off on CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY/MYSTICISM AS METHODOLOGY FOR SPIRITUAL FORMATION
“…take one or two others along, so that ‘every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.’ ” (Matthew 18:16) The Murky Mystic Shadows Of Spurious Spiritual Formation Looms Closer To You In a court of law it is a common occurrence for trial lawyers to bring in expert witnesses from specialized fields […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 30, 2008 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Emergent Church, Features, Richard Foster, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation | Comments Off on SPIRITUAL FORMATION: JUST SAY NO
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) Foster And Willard: Dynamic Duo With Their Disciplines Of Deception Apprising Ministries warns you that under the guise of “Spiritual Formation” neo-pagan so-called “spiritual disciplines” have now slithered […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 30, 2008 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Spiritual Formation | Comments Off on IS IT NEGATIVE TO TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT SPURIOUS SPIRITUAL FORMATION?
The following is based on an unsolicited email I received here at Apprising Ministries. Please understand that I do not think any pastor-teacher is above reproach [insert typical Emerging Church whining here], etc. What I wish to bring out is how easy, and I’ll argue how arrogant as well, it is for people to simply […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 18, 2007 in Current Issues, Southern Baptist Convention | Comments Off on SPIRITUAL FORMATION SURVEY AND CONTEMPLATIVE PRAYER IN THE BAPTIST STATE CONVENTION OF NORTH CAROLINA (SBC)
Then the LORD said to me in the days of Josiah the king, “Have you seen what faithless Israel did? She went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and she was a harlot there. “I thought, ‘After she has done all these things she will return to Me’; but she did […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 27, 2011 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation | Comments Off on SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION USING MORE COUNTER REFORMATION CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY
As we get set to close out this year and brace ourselves for what appears to be a tsunami of apostasy headed toward the mainstream of the visible church Apprising Ministries says a heartfelt thank you to those who’ve been supporting us in prayer and financially. We are grateful for these fellow soldiers willing to […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 26, 2010 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Features, Richard Foster, Spiritual Formation | Comments Off on ACTS 29 NETWORK AND REFORMED COUNTER REFORMATION SPIRITUALITY?
Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so. (Acts 17:11, ESV) Could A New Postmodern Form Of Calvinism Be Emerging? In a little bit of a follow-up to Acts 29 Pastor Matt Chandler On Being […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 30, 2009 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features | Comments Off on TIM KELLER ENDORSING COUNTER-REFORMATION CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY?
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) “Circle Up The Wagons Because We’re Heading Home To Romanticized Rome!” This is a short follow-up to the Apprising Ministries post to “The Way Of The Monk” At Tim Keller’s […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 10, 2014 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Roman Catholicism | 0 Comments
What is the whole papacy but a beautiful false front and a deceptively glittering holiness under which the wretched devil lies in hiding? The devil always desires to imitate God in this way. He cannot bear to observe God speaking. If he cannot prevent it or hinder God’s Word by force, he opposes it with […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 6, 2014 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features | 0 Comments
Apprising Ministries has been blessed to have been among the leading online apologetics and discernment ministries (OADM) who’re covering the very clear and present danger posed by the ongoing evangelical fascination with corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM). It’s important for you to remember here that CSM, which has been perpetrated throughout evangelicalism as so-called Spiritual Formation by Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster along with […]