Category: Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 21, 2010 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
“But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would not submit to me. So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels.” (Psalm 81:11-12) Contemplative Spirituality In Evangelicalism This online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries has been documenting for you how doctrinal lines continue to be erased […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 17, 2010 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren
In Kay Warren, Henri Nouwen, And Contemplative Spirituality here at Apprising Ministries I showed you that on the Saddleback Church website Saddleback Family in their Spiritual Growth Center we find a Saddleback Staff Picks section; and then under Kay Warren—Acts of Mercy we come to the below: (Online source) So the first under “books that shaped Kay’s life” […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 14, 2010 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren
This is a follow up to the Apprising Ministries post Rick Warren Wants Us To Learn From Henri Nouwen where I continue documenting the slide of the Protestant evangelical community back into the religious slavery of romanticized Roman Catholic mysticism, whose monastic traditions’ warped theology would eventually end up causing the Reformation as the result of their spiritually corrupt Contemplative […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 14, 2010 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren
In posts such as Rick Warren Dangerous Man For The Gospel this online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries has been among those who’ve been reporting on an ill-advised decision by Dr. John Piper to bring Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren into the Desiring God Conference 2010 as the keynote speaker. As I’ve pointed out before, sadly, it got even worse when […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 11, 2010 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Dallas Willard, Richard Foster, Spiritual Formation
Religion is, shortly, the reaction of the human soul in the presence of God. As God is as much a part of the environment of man as the earth on which he stands, no man can escape from religion any more than he can escape from gravitation. But though every man necessarily reacts to God, […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 10, 2010 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features
For their vine comes from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of poison; their clusters are bitter; their wine is the poison of serpents and the cruel venom of asps. (Deuteronomy 32:32-33) Practices Of Contemplative Spirituality Are Not Neutral Apprising Ministries documented for you in “The Way Of The Monk” At Tim […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 10, 2010 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Devotions, Features
For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform signs and wonders, to lead astray, if possible, the elect. (Mark 13:22) Spiritual Deception Depends Upon Counterfeit Experience Which Looks And Feels Real Apprising Ministries with just a little heads up that heretics know how to use the language well in order to draw in their […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 9, 2010 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features
By Apprising Ministries correspondent Christine Pack of Sola Sisters See also: “The Way of the Monk” at Tim Keller’s Redeemer Presbyterian Church Does Tim Keller Endorse New Age Teachers?
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 6, 2010 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features
The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 28, 2010 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Southern Baptist Convention
…they are full of things from the east… (Isaiah 2:6) Going Beyond Scripture Like Roman Catholics Mystics In Priscilla Shirer And Contemplative/Centering Prayer, which serves as the first part of this follow up article, Apprising Ministries reminded you that both Shirer and her good friend Beth Moore were part of the Be Still…And Know That I Am God DVD. I explained further […]
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