By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 28, 2010 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Spiritual Formation
Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? (1 Corinthians 5:6, ESV) Romanticizing Rome It would appear so. A while back Apprising Ministries told you that Rick Warren And Peter Scazzero Are Up To Monk-ee Business and also asked is: Tim Keller Endorsing Counter-Reformation Contemplative Spirituality? Briefly, Leadership Network’s propped up Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren has actually […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 18, 2010 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Southern Baptist Convention
They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us. (1 John 2:19) Back To The Dark Ages Apprising Ministries is glad to see in 9 Marks: Intervarsity […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 16, 2010 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Features, Richard Foster, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation
Apprising Ministries has long been warning that apostatizing pretending to be Protestant evangelicalism is paying a heavy price for its foolish embrace of the sinfully ecumenial Emerging Church aka Emergent Church—which morphed into Emergence Christianity (EC). The EC was a Trojan Horse that unloaded corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) ala Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster—and his spiritual twin Dallas Willard—within […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 12, 2010 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation
HT: Pirate Christian Radio See also: CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY CATALYST PETER SCAZZERO CALVINIST CONTEMPLATIVE/CENTERING PRAYER? DONALD WHITNEY AND EVANGELICAL CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY/MYSTICISM RICHARD FOSTER’S LEGACY ENDURES: CHRISTIAN LEADERS HELP TO MAKE IT SO THE TERMINOLOGY TRAP OF “SPIRITUAL FORMATION” CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY OF RICHARD FOSTER ROOTED IN THE EASTERN DESERT AND THOMAS MERTON PASTOR KEN SILVA—THE HIJACKING OF […]
By AM on Jan 11, 2010 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Radio Appearances
From the website of PID Radio: HOW DO Christians know what to think when our pastors bring teachings into church that are rooted in heresy or the occult? Discernment, that’s how. Know the genuine article so you can spot the counterfeit. Our guest has made a ministry of pointing out false doctrine in some of […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 8, 2010 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren
Apprising Ministries brought to your attention in posts such as Rick Warren Wants Us To Know Peter Scazzero that Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren has actually been pushing the door open for corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) ala Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster—and his spiritual twin Dallas Willard—within the mainstream of evangelicalism for quite some time now. Which is […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 7, 2010 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Rob Bell
The above was designed as a little reductio ad absurdum by Christian apologist Chris Rosebrough, host of the Fighting for the Faith (FftF) program, which can be heard on the Pirate Christian Radio network at 6PM Eastern time. With this all in mind, below Apprising Ministries is pleased to point you to an excellent deconstruction of the warped and […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 4, 2010 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features
But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how is it that you turn back again to the weak and worthless elemental things, to which you desire to be enslaved all over again? (Galatians 4:9, NASB) Reformed Theology With Counter Reformation Spirituality? In the December 30, 2009 […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 30, 2009 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism
This so-called “spiritual discipline” is the chief vehicle of Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism and is without question a “Christian” form of transcendental meditation. Consider the following from Contemplative (Centering) Prayer: In 1974, Father William Meninger, a Trappist monk and retreat master at St. Josephs Abbey in Spencer, Mass. found a dusty little book in the abbey library, The Cloud […]