We have much to say about this, but it is hard to explain because you are slow to learn. (Hebrews 5:11) The Lord Spoke To Me…Well, I Think I’m Pretty Sure He Did  Those familiar with Apprising Ministries will know that a major focus of this online discernment and apologetics ministry (ODAM) is corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM), and its […]

You have abandoned your people, the house of Jacob.  They are full of superstitions from the East; they practice divination like the Philistines and clasp hands with pagans. (Isaiah 2:6) Foster Drinks Deeply From The Murky Mystical Well Of Roman Catholic Monk Merton Apprising Ministries continues pointing out that the Contemplative/Centering Prayer, or so-called Christian meditation, of Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) […]

From the Lighthouse blog has an important look at Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster and his spurious spirituality rooted in the Counter Reformation of apostate Roman Catholicism: This article hopes to reveal the underlying nature of Foster’s spirituality and to reject the recommendations of these Christian figures who rather than warning the body of Christ about Foster’s spiritual […]

The following is from unsolicited email received from a brother pastor-teacher and is published with his permission. He was writing in response to the recent Apprising Ministries article Richard Foster A Reliable Source For Proper Christian Spirituality? Sadly, Celebration of Discipline, a piece of spiritual skubalon by Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster, which Dr. Gary Gilley has rightly called “a […]

Then the LORD said to me, “The prophets are prophesying falsehood in My name I have neither sent them nor commanded them nor spoken to them; they are prophesying to you a false vision, divination, futility and the deception of their own minds.” (Jeremiah 14:14, NASB) Hammering Out The Golden Buddha Of The Mystic Mush […]

The following is from the introduction to a teaching by Thomas Merton called What Is Contemplation? On page 17 of the Renovare book Spiritual Classics edited by Richard Foster and Emilie Griffin we read: Thomas Merton has perhaps done more than any other twentieth-century figure to make the life of prayer widely known and understood… During his […]

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 […]

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 […]

Come, O house of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the LORD. You have abandoned your people, the house of Jacob. They are full of superstitions from the East; they practice divination like the Philistines and clasp hands with pagans. (Isaiah 2:5-6) Eastern-Style Meditation As The Bridge To Unite All Religions And Transform Mankind Building on It’s High Time […]