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GIVING LEONARD SWEET A NUDGE

  …always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth. (2 Timothy 3:7) Sweet Hegelian Dialetic Double-Speak In Apprising Ministries articles like Leonard Sweet, Frank Viola, And The Third Way and Leonard Sweet, Frank Viola, And Mystic Meister Eckhart I’ve shown that the man-centered semi-pelagian theology of Leonard Sweet—beyond question a leading theologian within […]

LEONARD SWEET AND HIS QUANTUM SPIRITUALITY

In articles like Leonard Sweet, Frank Viola, And The Third Way and Leonard Sweet, Frank Viola, And Mystic Meister Eckhart here at Apprising Ministries I’ve shown that, despite his claims to the contrary, Leonard Sweet—beyond question a leading theologian within the sinfully ecumenical neo-liberal cult of the Emerging Church in its early days—his man-centered  semi-pelagian theology remains the same. With […]

DESTINY-DRIVEN DOMINIONISM AND RICK WARREN

By Discernment Research Group “Today is TRANSFORMATIONAL TUESDAY! I am decreeing that a serious transformation is already taking place with everything that concerns me! Everything in the UNIVERSE must line up to make it happen because it’s my destiny and I am settling for NOTHING LESS! What is it that you need to be transformed today? […]

THE OTHER SIDE OF EMERGENT: THE NEW APOSTOLIC REFORMATION

“Religious leadership must end its intellectual and imaginative failure to think through what it is doing in the light of the new emerging cosmology, which is hospitable to spirit-matter theories and mindbody experiences.” Leonard Sweet[1] Today [June 1] is the launching of a new book, co-authored by Leonard Sweet and Frank Viola. This marks the open […]

EMERGING CHURCH PROPHETS FOLLOWING THEIR OWN SPIRIT

The word of the LORD came to me: “Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel, who are prophesying, and say to those who prophesy from their own hearts: ‘Hear the word of the LORD!’ Thus says the Lord GOD, Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing! […]

RISING CHRISTIAN IMPERIALISM FUELED BY DOMINION THEOLOGY

 Apprising Ministries points you to an interesting article by my friend Don Koenig which begins: Most Christians might think I would have to be nuts to warn others about the possibility of rising Christian imperialism at a time when Christianity is under oppression by the secular Far Left and Islam but apart from my mental […]

SOUTHERN BAPTIST SOUL SHAPING RETURN TO RELIGIOUS BONDAGE

For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. (Galatians 5:1) Heading Back Into Law-based Quid Pro Quo Spirituality For quite some time now Apprising Ministries has been covering the influx of corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism into the Southern Baptist Convention, which is allegedly the largest […]

DR. JOHN PIPER AND UNANSWERED QUESTIONS

Apprising Ministries now brings you a follow up to Questions Concerning Dr. John Piper where I told you that when Dr. Piper made the ill-advised decision to invite Leadership Network’s propped-up Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren to DG 2010 as a keynote speaker it set off a rippling effect where people, and not merely discernment ministries, have started to look a little closer at his theology, educational background, and associations; e.g. […]

STEVE GLADEN, SADDLEBACK CHURCH SMALL GROUPS, AND QUAKER MYSTIC SPIRITUALITY

Apprising Ministries correspondent Christine Pack of Sola Sisters shows you, again, in her post Saddleback Promotes “Christianized” Mantra Meditation what I first showed you e.g. in Southern Baptist Pastor Rick Warren And Saddleback Church Openly Recommend Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism. Here we’ll see another example of it with Steve Gladen, who’s “now the Pastor of Small Groups at [the] Saddleback Church” [1] of Purpose […]

RICK JOYNER, TODD BENTLEY, AND THE NEW APOSTOLIC REFORMATION

By Apprising Ministries correspondent Chrystal Whitt of Slaughter of the Sheep The heretical New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) has been gaining steam, and the movers and shakers want to take over the world through their seven mountain, or seven spheres, of influence.  When we watch people like Rick Joyner in action, we may be tempted to believe he is just […]