As we begin to follow up now on Ravi Zacharias International Ministries Contunues Asserting Henri Nouwen A Great Christian Saint, for more background, I refer new people who are just discovering this issue to that post and to those which are listed below. But what’s important to keep in mind here is that I happen to be one whom God, in […]

So Where Did Contemplative/Centering Prayer Actually Originate? We are aware Wikipedia is not a source normally used in more scholastic research and the following is quoted mainly for the convenience of the lay reader but it will be firmly established by subsequent testimony below: seeds of what would become known as contemplation were sown early in the Christian […]

Over at Slice of Laodicea Ingrid Schlueter writes: For those wondering about the strength of concern about Henri Nouwen and his defenders like Ravi Zacharias, here is an excerpt of a new book from David Cloud about this new mystical fascination in evangelicalism. This is taken from a press release regarding the book… (Online source) […]

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) The Great “Enlightened Ones” Telling Us Through Rob Bell That […]

A man-centered gospel is the belief that the determining factor in whether or not a man is eternally saved, in the end, relies (at some level) upon an act of his own will i.e. human decision. This is often called synergism because it is thought to be a cooperative effort between God and man. While […]

Contemplative Prayer immerses us into the silence of God. How desperately we in the modern world need this wordless baptism… Contemplative Prayer is the one discipline that can free us from our addiction to words. Progress in intimacy with God means progress toward silence… It is recreating silence to which we are called in Contemplative […]

This presentation below of a recent Crosstalk radio program put together by Lane Chaplin features: Host: Ingrid Schlueter Guest: Ken Silva Pastor Ken Silva is with Apprising Ministries. How would you feel if your pastor tried to teach you breathing exercises specific to prayer? What if he told you that your deepest fear is that you […]

They are full of superstitions from the East; they practice divination like the Philistines and clasp hands with pagans. (Isaiah 2:6) “But Don’t Go Confusing Me With The Facts; I’ve Already Made Up My Mind!” Apprising Ministries, in the time we have left, will continue alerting the Body of Christ to the dangers of Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) with its […]

In his sermon I will say it again, and again, and again, Sunday November 16, 2008, Emergent Church icon Rob Bell shares a common mantra of those neo-Gnostics involved in the Contemplative/Centering Prayer of Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism. For them it is the mystics in various religious traditions who are the great enlightened ones. Bell says: It’s interesting how […]

A recent edition of Fighting for the Faith podcast hosted by Chris Rosebrough also featured Ken Silva of Apprising Ministries joining him in breaking down a recent sermon by Emerging Church icon Rob Bell where he attempts to exegete Philippians 3: 2 — Watch out for those dogs, those men who do evil, those mutilators of the flesh. On this program, […]