Concerning the 19th Annual National Conference on Preaching (NCP) Jim Luppachino of Watcher’s Lamp has written a timely piece called James Emery White’s Purpose Driven Mysticism. Now in this article Apprising Ministries examines the issue further and shows you beyond the shadow of a doubt that White is indeed promoting Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism.

Taking a step ever closer to messed up mystic Matthew Fox, here is retired Episcopal Bishop John Shelby Spong—a leading theologian in the Cult of Liberal Theology—praising Deepak Chopra on the back of Chopra’s latest book The Third Jesus—The Christ We Cannot Ignore: In this book a man shaped by the religions of the East […]

Apprising Ministries is pleased to bring you this presentation from our good friend Richard Bennett of Berean Beacon concerning the infestation of so-called “Christian” mysticism within the evangelical community through the Emergent Church, which is a cult of the new liberal theology.

For those who may doubt it Shane Claiborne, who is aligned with the neo-monastic movement, is definitely into the mystic mumbo jumbo of the Emergent Church. So-called “Christian” mysticism—which originally flowered in the monastic traditions of apostate Roman Catholicism—was a core doctrine of the emerging church movement from its very inception. To be fair, Apprising […]

For those with eyes to see they will know that the sky was very red this morning over what is passing for Christianity here in America. As I have said recently the time we live is not a time for unity; it is a time for division. We must begin to turn our backs to […]

In the Apprising Ministries post Man-Centered Gospel vs. God-Centered Gospel we discussed what is meant by our use of these particular terms. 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 […]

The following here at Apprising Ministries is adapted from Recovering Reformation Theology: Rejecting Synergism and Returning to Monergism (RRT) by Bob DeWaay at Critical Issues Commentary. DeWaay is pastor of Twin City Fellowship “a non-denominational evangelical Church located…in St. Louis Park, MN.”