“But as for those whose hearts are devoted to their vile images and detestable idols, I will bring down on their own heads what they have done, declares the Sovereign LORD.” (Ezekiel 11:21) Living Spiritual Teachers, Spiritual Masters, Roshis, and Yogis What you are about to read below is the definition of Contemplative/Centering Prayer, or […]

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 […]

We now continue our look at what Christ Jesus did on the Cross. In the previous The Power of the Cross here at Apprising Ministries we focused more on what the sacrifice of Jesus of Nazareth meant in regard to salvation and now we begin to look a bit more at the effect the Cross […]

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 […]

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. (Galatians 5:1, KJV) Watching The Leaven of CSM Rise Before Your Eyes If you don’t think this Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) is a growing menace in the “Protestant” evangelical community then consider SpiritLines Newsletter […]

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 […]

Apprising Ministries brings you this warning concerning an upcoming Emergent Church conference, which is called Reclaiming Paul: The Apostle in the Emerging World (RP). At its website we’re given a “Conference Synopsis” of RP: A conversation among emerging church leaders & biblical scholars, pastors & educators. When: October 22 – 24, 2008 Location: Kansas City, […]

It doesn’t bring any pleasure to have to draw attention to this issue but unfortunately it does dovetail with my own dealings with Richard Abanes, an apologist for Rick Warren and a member of Warren’s Saddleback Church (SBC). Most readers of Apprising Ministries know that a still unsubstantiated charge by Abanes alleging libel in my three year old A Pastor’s Assessment of […]

You can download and listen to the entire Crosstalk program here. See also: AS IT CONCERNS RICHARD ABANES AND KEN SILVA SETTING RICHARD ABANES STRAIGHT ON MY RICK WARREN “ATTACK”

  And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ; until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge […]