Category: Rick Warren

CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY/MYSTICISM AS METHODOLOGY FOR 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 […]

CONTEMPLATIVE/CENTERING PRAYER AS “CHRISTIAN” MEDITATION »

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. […]

TODAY'S FALSE GOSPEL…READ IT AND WEEP… »

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 […]

RICK WARREN AND THE PURPOSE DRIVEN LIFE DRIVING GOD AWAY »

As I have said before here at Apprising Ministries, without a doubt these are strange times we are living in. An era where a warped kind of “tolerance” has actually replaced the type of love that our Lord was so often speaking about. This alleged “postmodern” age is really just a mask for relativism, along […]

REFUTING RICK WARREN »

A reader of Apprising Ministries writes to ask for information and materials on refuting Rick Warren and The Purpose Driven Life: Dear Ken, I recently found out that a pastor I know is reading Rick Warren’s nonsense. I know him well enough to know that: A) He is truly saved, and B) He would not […]

“BIBLE SCHOLAR” RICK WARREN REVERSING THE REFORMATION »

For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. (James 1:7-8, ESV) Believing Protestant Reformation Doctrine And That The Church Of Rome Is Christian? In an August 15, 2008 interview by Jake Tapper of ABC News postevangelicalism’s Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren […]

RICK WARREN IS SAYING PROTESTANT REFORMERS LUTHER AND CALVIN WERE WRONG »

That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all he does. (James 1:8-9, NASB) Believing Reformation Doctrine And That The Church Of Rome Is Christian? In the Apprising Ministries feature article Rick Warren Says “Great Spiritual Awakening Coming” I brought to your attention that […]

WARREN-DRIVEN OR BIBLE-OBEDIENT? »

The semi-pelagian Church Growth Movement that slithered out of Fuller Theological Seminary has by now metastasized its cancer into many different centered on man movements within apostatizing evangelicalism. And one of its most insideous forms is the purpose driven plague as carried by PDL Rick Warren. In an insightful post at Deception in the Church by […]

ROMAN CATHOLICISM IS THE PERFECT ILLUSTRATION OF ANOTHER GOSPEL »

RICK WARREN SAYS “GREAT SPIRITUAL AWAKENING” COMING »

In the Foreword of William Webster’s very helpful 1996 book The Matthew 16 Controversy Dr. Tom Nettles, Professor of Historical Theology at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, writes: Recent years have seen an increase in serious attempts at achieving some reapprochement between Roman Catholics and Protestants…the current rapid breakdown in public morality has served as a […]

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