Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so. (Acts 17:11, ESV) Could A New Postmodern Form Of Calvinism Be Emerging? In a little bit of a follow-up to Acts 29 Pastor Matt Chandler On Being […]

…and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also. (2 Timothy 2:2, ESV) Since When Has Contemplative Spirituality Been Reformed Doctrine? In posts such as Calvinist Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism? and Calvinist Contemplative/Centering Prayer? here at Apprising Ministries I’ve shared some concern about this […]

If you think the video below here at Apprising Ministries is a service at a church that’s with the sinfully ecumenical neo-liberal cult of the Emerging Church; you’d be wrong. This video is from the Vimeo page of  New Life Fellowship Roman Catholic Church where Peter Scazzero is pastor/spiritual director/priest. You may recall from Contemplative Spirituality Catalyst Peter Scazzero I […]

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. (2 Timothy 4:3-4, ESV) Using Medieval Mystics To Tells Us Myths Apprising Ministries brings to […]

They built the high places of Baal in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to offer up their sons and daughters to Molech, though I did not command them, nor did it enter into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin. (Jeremiah 32:35, ESV) Throwing Your Evangelical Young Into […]

Apprising Ministries wonders: When did occultic automatic writing i.e. channeling become part of Protestant evangelicalism; well, apparently it is now. The following, published by Thomas Nelson, is a vivid illustration of the grave spiritual danger of the corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM), which is perpetrated as so-called Spiritual Formation (SF), e.g. by Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster along with his […]

You may know from reading Apprising Ministries that my late mom was from Sydney, Nova Scotia; and Canada has always been dear to my heart. In Look who’s Teaching the Teachers over at her informative More Books and Things my friend Carla has been alerting those north of the border about the upcoming: Christian Principals Spring Conference […]

But this question doesn’t come to us from an Emergent Church website, which we’re already accustomed to seeing. No, the question is posed by Todd Rhodes of : MMI: Can Yoga Be Christian? http://bit.ly/afQpYz (Online source) The link takes us to Rhodes’ short post Can Yoga Be Christian? at his Monday Morning Insight. Rhodes explains that he’s […]

Apprising Ministries has long been warning about the dangers of corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) perpetrated as so-called Spiritual Formation (SF) by Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster along with his spiritual twin SBC minister Dallas Willard now slithering deeper into pretending to be Protestant mainstream evangelicalism. Being a former Roman Catholic, I also brought to your attention that it’s beyond question this spurious CSM is nothing more than […]

…and those who are in the flesh cannot please God. However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him. (Romans 8:8-9, NASB) Mysticism Is Opposed To Sola Scriptura […]