“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 […]

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 will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths. (2 Timothy 4:4, NASB) The Historical And Mythical Jesus Of Marcus Borg We begin by reminding the reader that in his book Velvet Elvis (VE) emerging church pastor/communicator Rob Bell recommends via footnote [Endnotes: 1; 57] The Heart of Christianity […]

In this excellent piece at the blog of Midwest Christian Outreach pastor G. Richard Fisher completely dismantles the false front of tolerance which Emergent Church Swami Brian McLaren has erected for himself. In setting up a very revealing quote from McLaren’s latest book Finding Our Way Again on so-called Spiritual Formation straight out of The […]

In Part One of this series Apprising Ministries showed you that the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina (BSCNC) of the Southern Baptist Convention isn’t even attempting to hide its open embrace of corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) and its Contemplative/Centering Prayer (CCP), which flowered in the antibiblical monastic traditions of apostate Roman Catholicism, i.e. no […]