They are full of superstitions from the East; they practice divination like the Philistines and clasp hands with pagans. (Isaiah 2:6) I’ll Worship My Own Way! Apprising Ministries continues doing what we can to alert spiritually obtuse pretending to be Protestant evangelicals to the grave dangers and deceptions of embracing the Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) perpetrated by Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster as […]

In Rick Warren And Peter Scazzero Up To Monk-ee Business earlier at Apprising Ministries I told you Leadership Network’s propped up Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren has conference called Radicalis that’s set to begin next Tuesday February 9 at Saddleback Church. Radicalis now features Dr. Ed Stetzer along with his Acts 29 cohort Mark Driscoll, Perry Noble, Kerry Shook, and Andy Stanley; I […]

Professing to be wise, they became fools… (Romans 1:22, NASB) Meeting In The Deception Of Mystery Apprising Ministries has pointed out e.g. Tony Jones, The Emerging Church And Progressive Christianity that the term to watch for now ‘round the circles of the sinfully ecumenical Emerging Church de-formation of the Christian faith aka Emergent Church—that’s now morphed […]

Apprising Ministries has introduced you  e.g. in Christian Agnostic Adele Sakler And Samir Selmanovic Discuss Christian Atheism to Samir Selamnovic, one of the up-and-coming ear-ticklers of the sinfully ecumenical Emerging Church aka Emergent Church—which morphed into Emergence Christianity (EC). Last night Emerging Church And TransFORM’s Steve Knight Re-tweeted the following, which he wanted to make sure we’d know: RT @natewig @SamirSelmanovic […]

For people will be lovers of self. (2 Timothy 3:2, ESV) Interlocking Circles Centered On Self With limited manpower, being that I am but one man, I do what I can here at Apprising Ministries to uncover disturbing trends within the mainstream of the evangelical community of the church visible. Primarily, as a former Roman Catholic, I focus on […]

Error, indeed, is never set forth in its naked deformity, lest, being thus exposed, it should at once be detected. But it is craftily decked out in an attractive dress, so as, by its outward form, to make it appear to the inexperienced (ridiculous as the expression may seem) more true than truth itself. Irenaeus, […]

I’ve pointed out previously that as a general rule, and a courtesy, we do not publish email without the permission of the sender. However at the same time, all email sent to AM and Christian Research Network is considered the property of Apprising Ministries so we may indeed publish unsolicited email for the purposes of […]

They are full of superstitions from the East; they practice divination like the Philistines and clasp hands with pagans. (Isaiah 2:6) Wannbe Gurus Galore Apprising Ministries sounds the warning again, along with Lighthouse Trails Research, about increasing inroads of corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) ala Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster—and his spiritual twin Dallas Willard—who are spreading this spurious Spiritual Formation (SF). […]

 Dear friends, although I was very eager to write to you about the salvation we share, I felt I had to write and urge you to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to the saints.For certain men whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They […]

The following is “From the Lighthouse” Newsletter July 6, 2009: In a July 4th article in the San Antonio Express-News, it features Thomas Keating, a Catholic monk who has been instrumental in bringing contemplative spirituality out of the monasteries to the layperson. In the article, Keating conveyed what contemplative mystics have been saying for centuries: mysticism is […]