The LORD enters into judgment against the elders and leaders of his people. (Isaiah 3:14) Reject Contemplative Spirituality And Instead Pray According To The Will Of God What will follow is illustrated e.g. by the Apprising Ministries piece Ravi Zacharias International Ministries Contunues Asserting Henri Nouwen A Great Christian Saint. Since I happen to be one whom God, […]

The Disciplines recommended by Foster, as well as his whole spiritual formation system, are derived from the mystics.  His list of recommended spiritual masters is witness to this:  Ignatius of Loyola (p. 66); Teresa of Avila (p. 166); Jeremy Taylor; William Law; Dallas Willard (pp. 24, 80, 153); Henri Nouwen (pp. 64-65, 110); Father Anthony […]

For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace, because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so, and those who are in the […]

Apprising Ministries has been researching the rejection of Sola Scriptura, in favor of highly subjective and existential Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, within the visible church for several years now. Developing as it has been into a veritable cult of contemplative spirituality it would certainly appear that the influence of Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster  continues spreading within mainstream evangelicalism, and even within Calvinist circles. For […]

In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping. (2 Peter 2:3) Heaven To Protestant Evangelicalism: “Um, Have You Lost Your Mind!?” While we don’t always agree with everything espoused by some of the great […]

The following is a book review of Finding Our Way Again: The Return To The Ancient Practices by Dr. Gary Gilley, pastor of Southern View Chapel, and is reprinted here at Apprising Ministries with permission: Brian McLaren, the most recognizable name in the emergent church movement, signals a shift, or at least a new emphasis within emergent, toward ancient practices […]

Unfortunately with no shortage of timid fellows in evangelical leadership positions today women like Ingrid Schlueter are really left with little choice than to continue to be “more man” than these other men. At Slice of Laodicea she tells it like it is regarding the Zondervan National Pastors Conference 2009. For example this year’s festival […]

Let us be perfectly clear here at Apprising Ministries; the idea of a deeper relationship with God is not wrong in and of itself. But it is the Lord Who draws us; we cannot “work” it up. And as I brought out in The Terminology Trap of “Spiritual Formation” what’s causing such a huge problem in the Body […]

For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. (Galatians 5:1, ESV) Non-Protesting Protestants Engaging In Revisionist History Of The Lord’s Reformation  Last time in Ravi Zacharias International Ministries Embracing Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) we began a look at the letter from Margaret Manning of RZIM and saw they are still equivocating with words in an ongoing […]

As we begin to follow up now on Ravi Zacharias International Ministries Contunues Asserting Henri Nouwen A Great Christian Saint, for more background, I refer new people who are just discovering this issue to that post and to those which are listed below. But what’s important to keep in mind here is that I happen to be one whom God, in […]