Category: Dallas Willard

DANGERS OF SPIRITUAL FORMATION »

Presented by Bob DeWaay and Dick Kuffel Many Christian colleges are adopting a course of study called “Spiritual Formation” that introduces students to “spiritual disciplines.” We warn about the unbiblical nature of these ascetic and mystical practices by critiquing Dallas Willard’s teachings. Part One Part Two Further reading THE ORIGIN OF CONTEMPLATIVE/CENTERING PRAYER CONTEMPLATIVE PRAYER […]

“INWARD JOURNEY” TAUGHT BY MYSTICS LIKE RICHARD FOSTER IS DIVINATION »

In earlier Apprising Ministries articles like and Christian Soldiers Standing Up For Jesus? and the semi-satirical Recipe For Spiritual Disaster I’ve been trying to bring to your attention how a Rodney King theology of, “Can’t we all just get along” is serving to cripple the witness of the church visible. A major factor contributing to this is […]

CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY IS SPIRITUAL LSD »

See also: DOMYSTIC RICK WARREN, JOHN PIPER & CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY/MYSTICISM TIM KELLER RECOMMENDING ROMAN CATHOLIC MYSTICISM MARK DRISCOLL, ACTS 29 NETWORK, & THE EMERGING CHURCH

MAINSTREAM EVANGELICALISM EMBRACING CONTEMPLATIVE MYSTICISM »

O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified. Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing with faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected […]

RECOMMENDING AN AFTERNOON MEDITATION »

A while back Apprising Ministries, a leading online apologetics and discernment work, told you that Rick Warren And Peter Scazzero Are Up To Monk-ee Business and also asked is: Tim Keller Endorsing Counter-Reformation Contemplative Spirituality?  Briefly, Leadership Network’s propped up Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren has actually been been up to spiritual monk-ee business for years now in opening the door for corrupt Contemplative […]

JOHN MACARTHUR ON SOLA SCRIPTURA »

First, it is necessary to understand what sola Scriptura does and does not assert. The Reformation principle of sola Scriptura has to do with the sufficiency of Scripture as our supreme authority in all spiritual matters. Sola Scriptura simply means that all truth necessary for our salvation and spiritual life is taught either explicitly or implicitly in […]

MORE QUESTIONS CONCERNING DR. JOHN PIPER »

I’ve pointed out before that the Lord chose to raise up Apprising Ministries as an online apologetics and discernment work; as such, it’s a large part on my mission here to cover trends developing within the church visible. Unfortunately we live in a time where, in my opinion, a tsunami of apostasy—likely driven by 1 Peter 4:17 judgments—is rapidly heading […]

JOHN MACARTHUR: JESUS AND FALSE TEACHERS »

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WHAT IS A "CHRISTIAN UNIVERSALIST?" »

By Apprising Ministries correspondent Christine Pack of Sola Sisters It used to be that Universalists behaved and stayed in the New Age where they belonged.  But sadly, those days are over.  And it used to be that a Universalist message was easy to “hear” and distinguish from the exclusive message of Christ.  Again, no more. […]

GO WRONG IN DOCTRINE, GO WRONG IN LIFE »

People say, ‘Do not be negative; let us be positive; let us just preach the simple gospel’. But the Bible is full of negatives, full of warnings, ever showing us these terrible possibilities. If you find in yourself a dislike of the warnings of the Scripture and of this negative teaching, it is obvious that […]

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