Apprising Ministries continues documenting the growing influence of Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) right into the timid heart of the squishy evanjellyfish pretending to be Protestant community. I’ve told you that the main catalyst for this spiritual skubalon is the Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster along with his spiritual twin, Southern Baptist minister Dallas Willard; both of whom teach the same spurious spirituality, which they’ve […]

*UPDATE* Below I refer to, and quote from, an article which is entitled Slaughtering Sacred Cows: Part 3 “The Felt-Presence of God” by Frank Viola and provided an online source. Apparently Frank Viola has had the access to this source blocked as now if you go there you’ll see: However, the article in question is also online […]

Back in November of 2005 the online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries warned you about what is now a full blown cult of neo-liberalism operating within mainstream evangelicalism, the sinfully ecumenical Emerging Church. These past few years this EC has been busy forging together its new form of postmodern liberal theology, a Liberalism 2.0 […]

The following by Dr. Gary Gilley, pastor of Southern View Chapel, is republished at Apprising Ministries with permission:    Mysticism’s Inroads    Most evangelical Christians probably would not recognize themselves in the previous discussion of mysticism (as found in our last three papers), but there are subtle influences at work drawing believers in this direction even without […]

…but they mixed with the nations and learned to do as they did. (Psalm 106:35) Via Contemplativa—Drink Up Deception At Apprising Ministries you will have heard me talking more and more about the new spirituality which has now slithered its way deep into mainstream evangelicalism from its den in the neo-liberal cult of the Emerging Church. The fact is […]

Apprising Ministries has long been covering the rise of the sinfully ecumenical Emerging Church; now a full blown cult operating within mainstream evangelicalism with its new form of postmodern liberal theology, a Liberalism 2.0 which Emergent Church guru Brian McLaren begins laying out in his latest book A New Kind of Christianity. You may recall that in The Emerging Church Transform East Coast Apostasia-Palooza I told […]

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, 4and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. (2 Timothy 4:3-4, ESV) It’s Happening Now At An Unprecedented Rate This online apologetics and […]

…they are full of things from the east and of fortune-tellers like the Philistines, and they strike hands with the children of foreigners. (Isaiah 2:6, ESV) Neo-Reformed Contemplative Spirituality? In recent posts such as Acts 29 Network And Reformed Counter Reformation Spirituality? and Acts 29 Pastor Matt Chandler On Being A Reformed Charismatic here at Apprising Ministries I’ve shared some concern […]

Apprising Ministries points you to the following tweet today from InterVarsity Press: Wondering what it might look like if Jesus made church for those on the outside? http://ow.ly/1PKIy (Online source) The link above goes to something IVP wanted to make sure we saw; it takes us to HollywoodJesus.com and a piece by United Methodist minister Jacob Sahms called What Will It Take To […]

Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted. Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. (Galatians 6:1-2, ESV)  It’s Not Loving To Withhold Truth Todd Rhodes, a staff member of Leadership Network, put […]