“But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would not submit to me. So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels.” (Psalm 81:11-12) Contemplative Spirituality In Evangelicalism This online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries has been documenting for you how doctrinal lines continue to be erased […]

 In Kay Warren, Henri Nouwen, And Contemplative Spirituality here at Apprising Ministries I showed you that on the Saddleback Church website Saddleback Family in their Spiritual Growth Center we find a Saddleback Staff Picks section; and then under Kay Warren—Acts of Mercy we come to the below:   (Online source) So the first under “books that shaped Kay’s life” […]

The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false, […]

From David Wheaton at his The Christian Worldview blog: (Online source) You can download and listen to the program right here. See also: EVANGELICALISM USING ITS YOUNG AS SPIRITUAL GUINEA PIGS CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY OF RICHARD FOSTER ROOTED IN THE EASTERN DESERT AND THOMAS MERTON DALLAS WILLARD ENCOURAGES CONTEMPLATIVE/CENTERING PRAYER CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY/MYSTICISM (CSM) OF SPIRITUAL FORMATION […]

By Apprising Ministries correspondent Mike Ratilff of Possessing the Treasure Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall. (2 Peter 1:10 ESV) Some “evangelical leaders” in our time will tell you that transformation is actually part of the gospel […]

Apprising Ministries has shown you recently in Tim Keller Doesn’t Believe In Young Earth Or Six 24-Hour Day Creation and Book On Old Earth View Influences Dr. John Piper that capitulations to the musings of the science of man are going to make some otherwise fragile associations even a bit more fragile within the Reformed camp.  With […]

The Bible nowhere describes an inward journey to explore the realm of the spirit. God chose to reveal the truth about spiritual reality through His ordained, Spirit-inspired, biblical writers. What is spiritual and not revealed by God is of the occult and, therefore, forbidden. We have discussed this in many articles and have produced DVD […]

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 […]

Now when you talk about origins you’re going to have to go back to Genesis. This is a book of origins. And let me put it again on the line where I put it last Lord’s day. Either you believe Genesis or you don’t. It’s that simple. Either you believe what Genesis says about all […]

Many who have embraced “the New Perspective on Paul” are also proposing a different slant on the doctrine of justification by faith. When the text of Scripture is interpreted in the new light, they say, Pauline support for the principle of sola fide [faith alone], the doctrine of imputation, and the distinction between law and […]