Category: Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism
By AM on Sep 3, 2008 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Radio Appearances
In Christianity Today Promoting The Cult of Richard Foster you will see Apprising Ministries point out that the current September 2008 issue of CT features an interview embracing Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster as a teacher of proper Christian spirituality. Consider that a few pages later in the same issue there’s a puff piece on Emergent Church Guru […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 2, 2008 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Dallas Willard, Emergent Church, Features, Richard Foster, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. (Galatians 5:1) A Quaker Mystic Is Now Teaching Us Proper Protestant Biblical Spirituality? Apprising Ministries has been warning you that Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster is hands down the leading proponent […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 1, 2008 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Emergent Church, Features, Richard Foster, Rick Warren, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation
“…take one or two others along, so that ‘every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.’ ” (Matthew 18:16) The Murky Mystic Shadows Of Spurious Spiritual Formation Looms Closer To You In a court of law it is a common occurrence for trial lawyers to bring in expert witnesses from specialized fields […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 31, 2008 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Richard Foster, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation
In the September 2008 Christianity Today magazine there’s a feature interview with Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster. In the Apprising Ministries article Contemplative/Centering Prayer As “Christian” Meditation we look further at the so-called “spiritual disciplines” of the spurious Spiritual Formation aka Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, which he teaches along with his spiritual twin Dallas Willard. Foster refer to these practices as “The Inward Disciplines” in […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 31, 2008 in Brian McLaren, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Emergent Church, Features, Marcus Borg, Richard Foster, Rick Warren, Rob Bell, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation
At Apprising Ministries you will likely hear me talking more about the new spirituality which has now slithered its way deep into postevangelicalism from its den in the Emerging Church. The fact is this neopagan Gnostic spirituality is most pointedly on display in the misguided mysticism of the Emergent Church with its reimagined postliberal theology. […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 31, 2008 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Features
The Lord be praised that He has seen fit to open the door for Apprising Ministries to have become one of the leading voices against the postliberal cult of the Emergent Church. Because of the issue with Richard Abanes, which blew up the original AM website, as God allows time I plan to fix the resulting myriad broken links and […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 31, 2008 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Features, Richard Foster
I hate those who regard vain idols, But I trust in the LORD. (Psalm 31:6, NASB) These Opened The Mystical Door Of No Return The September 2008 issue of Christianity Astray Today magazine is poised to bring favorable attention to The Cult Guru Richard Foster so here Apprising Ministries reminds you that Emergent Church Swami Brian Mclaren, who […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 30, 2008 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Emergent Church, Features, Richard Foster, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation
The September 2006 issue of Christianity Today tells us ordained Southern Baptist minister Dallas Willard “is on a quiet quest to subvert nominal Christianity.” But with the kind of Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM)—often called Spiritual Formation—espoused by Willard along with his co-conspirator the Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster, which always eventually leads its practioners to a […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 30, 2008 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Emergent Church, Features, Richard Foster, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation
It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery. (Galatians 5:1, NASB) Foster And Willard: Dynamic Duo With Their Disciplines Of Deception Apprising Ministries warns you that under the guise of “Spiritual Formation” neo-pagan so-called “spiritual disciplines” have now slithered […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 30, 2008 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Features, Richard Foster, Spiritual Formation
The idea here at Apprising Ministries is to begin helping you understand this New Spirituality as well as giving you a proper Christian perspective of it. Firmly rooted as it is in pagan Eastern religions which lurk beneath the New Age movement, this so-called “Christian” mysticism is right now slithering deep into the evangelical camp […]
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