Category: Richard Foster
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 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 Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Emergent Church, Erwin McManus, Features, Joel Osteen, John Hagee, Marcus Borg, Richard Foster, Rick Warren, Rob Bell, Roman Catholicism, Southern Baptist Convention, T.D. Jakes, Theology, Word Faith
Do not quench the Spirit; do not despise prophetic utterances. But examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good. (1 Thessalonians 5:21, NASB) Can You Hear The Voice of The Spirit? Apprising Ministries is pleased to bring you the following godly and prophetic insight from James Montgomery Boice and Philip Graham Ryken. Herein […]
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 […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 30, 2008 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Emergent Church, Richard Foster, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation
Apprising Ministries is very pleased to point you to this concise but dead on target review from Dr. Gary Gilley of , the classic book which spawned The Cult of Guru Richard Foster. Gilley says: Written over twenty-five hears ago, and proclaimed by Christianity Today as one of the ten best books of the twentieth century, the influence […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 28, 2008 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Emergent Church, Richard Foster, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation
I have strongly felt led to put a few of my other projects on hold in order that I might more fully train some of the guns of Apprising Ministries onto a counterattack of the Devil’s penetration into the mainstream of the Church of Jesus Christ. This he has largely accomplished through his “reimagined” spiritually corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) and its Contemplative/Centering Prayer […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 28, 2008 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Emergent Church, Features, Richard Foster, Spiritual Formation
As we prepare to discuss the Contemplative Mystic Thomas Merton we will be entering the very Temple of the Contemplative Spirituality Movement (CSM) itself to touch one of its most “anointed” Buddhas. Those who teach Contemplative Spirituality Mysticism such as Richard Foster, the Quaker mystic who is listed among the “living spiritual teachers” at the […]
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