Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? (1 Corinthians 5:6) A Lump Of Mystic Leaven Is Rising Apprising Ministries picks up where we left off in Rick Warren Saddleback Church, And Spiritual Disciplines, which began in Steve Gladen, Saddleback Church Small Groups, And Quaker Mystic Spirituality, where I […]

“Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few. Beware of false prophets, who come to […]

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 […]

God has not left us to fish around in the world of spirits and subjective experiences to know Him and speak to Him. God send His Son, who pre-existed as God and with God, to be born of a virgin and live in history in the flesh. The apostles heard Him, touched Him and saw […]

By Apprising Ministries correspondent Christine Pack of Sola Sisters Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church website features two books by Quaker and mystic Richard Foster, today’s leading proponent of something known as “Spiritual Disciplines” or “Spiritual Formation.”  Also promoted are several other books focusing on the Spiritual Disciplines, which teach a practice that is nothing more than a “Christianized” version […]

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 […]

In recent posts such as Leonard Sweet, Frank Viola, And The Third Way and Root Of This New Downgrade here at Apprising Ministries I’ve been showing you how deeply the practice, and results, of Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) within the pretending to be Protestant squishy evanjellyfish community. And in Mark Driscoll And Neo-Reformed New Calvinist Contemplative Spirituality I’ve also shown you that […]

…they mixed with the nations and learned to do as they did. They served their idols, which became a snare to them. (Psalm 106:35-36, ESV) The Convergence Apprising Ministries introduced you to Mike Morrell, a largely behind the scenes networker in the neo-liberal cult of the Emergent Church in Mike Morrell On Matthew Fox, John Wimber, And The […]

Apprising Ministries continues documenting the growing influence of Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) right into the timid heart of the squishy evanjellyfish pretending to be Protestant community. I’ve told you that the main catalyst for this spiritual skubalon is the Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster along with his spiritual twin, Southern Baptist minister Dallas Willard; both of whom teach the same spurious spirituality, which they’ve […]

*UPDATE* Below I refer to, and quote from, an article which is entitled Slaughtering Sacred Cows: Part 3 “The Felt-Presence of God” by Frank Viola and provided an online source. Apparently Frank Viola has had the access to this source blocked as now if you go there you’ll see: However, the article in question is also online […]