Category: Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism

DR. JOHN PIPER AND MORE UNANSWERED QUESTIONS »

Apprising Ministries now brings you a follow up to More Questions Concerning Dr. John Piper where I reminded 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; […]

MORE QUESTIONS CONCERNING DR. JOHN PIPER »

I’ve pointed out before that the Lord chose to raise up Apprising Ministries as an online apologetics and discernment work; as such, it’s a large part on my mission here to cover trends developing within the church visible. Unfortunately we live in a time where, in my opinion, a tsunami of apostasy—likely driven by 1 Peter 4:17 judgments—is rapidly heading […]

CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY/MYSTICISM SLITHERS EVEN CLOSER TO YOUR CHURCH »

And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord. And behold, at the entrance of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs to the temple of the Lord, and their faces toward the east, worshiping the sun toward the […]

WRONG SPIRITUAL PRACTICES REPRODUCE SAME WRONG EXPERIENCES »

To the teaching and to the testimony! If they will not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn. (Isaiah 8:20) A Nice, Or Good, Experience Doesn’t Insure That It’s From God The following incident, which Bob DeWaay shares in his fine scholarly work The Dangers of Divination, proves to be […]

MEDITATION AWAKENING FOR TRANSFORMATION OF THE GLOBAL FAMILY »

“These are the statutes and rules that you shall be careful to do in the land that the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess, all the days that you live on the earth.” “You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served their gods, […]

CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY/MYSTICISM TAKES YOU OUT ON A LIMB »

CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY/MYSTICISM UNITES THE GLOBAL FAMILY »

And the Lord said to me: “The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I did not send them, nor did I command them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a lying vision, worthless divination, and the deceit of their own minds.” (Jeremiah 14:14) One River That Is God But Many Streams […]

PETER SCAZZERO RECOMMENDING CONTEMPLATIVE/CENTERING PRAYER »

…they are full of things from the east and of fortune-tellers like the Philistines, and they strike hands with the children of foreigners. (Isaiah 2:6) Circle Up The Wagons We’re Heading Home To Rome Evangelicals are quick to praise Charles Spurgeon, who stood tall for the purity of God’s Gospel during the Downgrade Controversy; this […]

ROMAN CATHOLICISM SPAWNED THE CURRENT APOSTASY IN EVANGELICALISM »

“Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their hearts, and set the stumbling block of their iniquity before their faces. Should I indeed let myself be consulted by them?” (Ezekiel 14:3) Interspiritual Compromise In Christ’s Name In the Vatican II document Nostra Aetate (NA), “Declaration On The Relation Of The Church To […]

DAN KIMBALL OF THE EMERGING CHURCH AND LECTIO DIVINA »

The one who states his case first seems right, until the other comes and examines him. (Proverbs 18:17) Things Aren’t As Simple As They May Appear   Apprising Ministries has been among those pioneering the mission filed of online apologetics and discernment ministry and it’s a well known fact that a major focus of mine has been the sinfully ecumenical neo-liberal cult […]

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