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 […]

Apprising Ministries will now introduce the Body of Christ to an epidemic disease in the visible Christian Church that just might come to be referred to as: “Me-no-wanna-see-i-tus.” Having been an SBC pastor since 1994, this illness is particularly evident concerning my ongoing look at the growing influence of decidedly anti-Reformation Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) within the Southern […]

I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel—not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should […]

Apprising Ministries has pointed out in SBC Pastor’s Conference 2014 with Rick Warren, Francis Chan. and James MacDonald and Rick Warren Keynote Speaker for SBC’s Pastors Conference that, along with Chan and MacDonald, Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren is to be a featured speaker for the SBC Pastor’s Conference 2014—Show Us Your Glory (PC14) coming up June 8-9 2014 at the Baltimore […]

“Do two walk together, unless they have agreed to meet?” (Amos 3:3) Southern Baptist Pastor Rick Warren Continues His Praise Of Apostate Roman Catholicism In our text above the Lord uses a rhetorical question designed to illicit the answer: “No, they do not.” I offer that what you’re about to see on the part of Purpose Driven […]

If you are at all familiar with my work here at Apprising Ministries then you’ll know that I’ve been covering what appears to me to be a developing Evangelical Ecumenical Magisterium (EEM). As I said before, it looks to have gained much momentum through the ecumenical Elephant Rooms 1 and 2 emanating from James MacDonald and assisted by his […]

The following by Dr. Gary Gilley, pastor of Southern View Chapel, is republished at Apprising Ministries with permission: (April/May 2012 – Volume 18, Issue 2) Of all the spiritual disciplines the Spiritual Formation Movement promotes, none is more important than prayer and the intake of God’s Word. On the surface we would expect little resistance to these two disciplines […]

By way of putting this in perspective for you, a couple of years ago in Tim Keller And Contemplative Pastrix Adele Calhoun here at Apprising Ministries I showed you that New Calvinist mentor Tim Keller actually endorses this book of Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism by pastrix Adele Calhoun: (source) The following by Dr. Gary Gilley, pastor of Southern View Chapel, […]

Christian Research Network is a sister work of Apprising Ministries. Here CRN Associate Editor Erin Benziger of Do Not Be Surprised… brings to our attention more sinful ecumenicism, which is becoming so common place in largely pretending to be Protestant evangelicalism: The slide of the visible church down the slippery slope of compromise continues to gain momentum as ecumenism and syncretism […]

The following by Dr. Gary Gilley, pastor of Southern View Chapel, is republished at Apprising Ministries with permission: In a world filled with noise, many of us long to “unplug” and find a quiet spot far from the hum of technology, the demands of work, the cries of children, the ubiquitous call of advertisement, the […]