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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 | Comments Off on CHRISTIANITY TODAY PROMOTING THE CULT OF RICHARD FOSTER
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 30, 2008 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Features, Richard Foster, Spiritual Formation | Comments Off on UNDERSTANDING THE NEW SPIRITUALITY: GOD INDWELLS MANKIND
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 25, 2008 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Features, Richard Foster | Comments Off on CONTEMPLATING THE INNER LIGHT OF THE QUAKERS (PT. 2)
We now continue this examination of the history of the Quakers and their core doctrine of the Inner Light that is allegedly within all of mankind and which supposedly was “revealed” by God to their founder George Fox. In Part One I opened with testimony concerning current Quaker beliefs from author and mystic Dr. Mary […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 25, 2008 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Emergent Church, Features, Richard Foster | Comments Off on CONTEMPLATING THE INNER LIGHT OF THE QUAKERS
We open this examination of the history of the Quakers and their core doctrine of the Inner Light that is allegedly within all of mankind with a bit of testimony by Mary Conrow Coelho. Coehlo speaks to us from personal experience as a third generation member of the Religious Society of Friends (the Quakers). She […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 20, 2008 in Current Issues | Comments Off on COMMENT CONCERNING CONTEMPLATIVE HENRI NOUWEN
This piece from the Apprising Ministries Mailbag is published with the permission of its author. The article they refer to below is Who Is Henri Nouwen?: Ken, interesting informative article on Nouwen, thanks. I know you saw Phil’s post “streams of conscisness” with the Emerging Church commenter . Check out his profile, and favorite books. It […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 12, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Emergent Church, Richard Foster, Spiritual Formation | Comments Off on THE CULT OF GURU RICHARD FOSTER
You foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified? This is the only thing I want to find out from you: did you receive the Spirit by the works of the Law, or by hearing with faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 30, 2008 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Emergent Church, Features, Richard Foster, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation | Comments Off on WHO IS RICHARD FOSTER?
Due to the importance of the issues concerning the influx into apostatizing evangelicalism of corrupt Contemplative/Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) and its so-called “Christian” meditation of Contemplative/Centering Prayer (CCP)—which flowered in the antibiblical monastic traditions of apostate Roman Catholicism, i.e. no longer Christian—Apprising Ministries is doing all we can to bring this to the attention of the Body […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 17, 2008 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues | Comments Off on JAMES EMERY WHITE TEACHING CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY/MYSTICISM
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 6, 2007 in Current Issues, Emergent Church, Features | Comments Off on CARLTON PEARSON AND THE GOSPEL OF INCLUSION IN THE SEMI-PELAGIAN NEW EVANGELICALISM
Apprising Ministries brings you this video link concerning the universalism now preached by Carlton Pearson. CNN News then informs us Pearson is the: “Evangelist who denounced gays [and] has [had a] change of heart: los[ing] mega-church, friends and income.”
By Apprising Administrator on May 25, 2007 in Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren, Southern Baptist Convention | Comments Off on SOUTHERN BAPTIST PASTOR RICK WARREN IS OPENLY PROMOTING APOSTATE ROMAN CATHOLICISM
Those of you already familiar with Apprising Ministries know that not only am I a Southern Baptist pastor but I am also a former Roman Catholic. So this is an issue that hits right at my heart because the majority of my family line on both sides is still trapped in what Dr. John MacArthur […]