Apprising Ministries with a  follow up piece to the article Prayer Is News In The Southern Baptist Convention—But What Type Of Prayer? It provides solid evidence showing influence of the neo-pagan Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism infecting evangelicalism at the prayer blog by the Southern Baptist Convention for their upcoming Annual Convention. 

My brethren, saving faith comes through the saving power of that faith. This power resides not in faith itself, but in our Lord Jesus Christ on whom it rests. What actually occurs when one is saved is that Christ saves that person through faith. This faith receives what God freely gives. [Our] Justification is not [...]

The highest holy day of the Christian faith is Easter Sunday. That is the day that our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ conquered the grave. Here is what Granger Community Church did on Easter Sunday. This sure was relevant but it has nothing to do Jesus Christ and His victorious resurrection from the grave.

In this piece in The Washington Times we see Word Faith prosperity preacher John Hagee attempting a little spin control after being criticized over his views of apostate Roman Catholicism: During his recent visit to the United States, Pope Benedict XVI not only conducted mass and met with the Catholic faithful, but he made a [...]

I personally have little use for Calvinists who treat the Gospel as if it is something unpalatable or off limits or to be shared only with a small group of people. No matter if we are Calvinists or Arminians who differ on some doctrinal points, I will consider all my brother or sister in Christ [...]

Today I read a post by Mason from Thoughts on the Way that was both thought provoking and convicting. The post addresses the danger of admiring preachers who God is using mightily too much. If we are honest with ourselves, this is a danger that we can all easily fall into. I confess that I have at times. How [...]

When professing Christians are held in rebuke against what the Scripture teaches, often they resort to ad hominem attacks and become very offended by what is said.  Why is this?  One of the main reasons is pride.  Someone comes along, stands boldly for what God has revealed in Scripture, and those who don’t often are [...]

Paul Proctor expresses similar concerns as did Pastor Ken Silva in his recent post PRAYER IS NEWS IN THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION—BUT WHAT TYPE OF PRAYER? … Southern Baptists Now In Decline  By Paul Proctor April 29, 2008 NewsWithViews.com …A quick stroll through the trinkets, toys and knickknacks for sale at LifeWay Christian Stores, formerly the Baptist [...]

From the Lighthouse Blog informs us concerning more spreading of neo-pagan contemplative mysticism: The National Day of Prayer has once again chosen Heart’s Cry by Jennifer Kennedy Dean as one of this year’s featured books. Kennedy Dean writes about the "listening prayer" [contemplative prayer/meditation] in chapter 11 of her book… Unfortunately, the National Day of Prayer [...]

Over at his Daniel’s Place, Daniel Chew, author of the book Driven Away by Purpose–an excellent refutation of the semi-pelagian postevangelical religion of Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren–shares some thoughts on self-appointed Warren apologist Richard Abanes. It’d be interesting to hear Abanes defend Warren from his "Junior High" conduct exposed by Watcher’s Lamp: It seems that [...]

  Rick Warren shares what he calls "the secret of church growth", as he employs a childhood method of simulating the sound of passing gas during a recent interview from the 2008 Exponential National New Conference. Warren also mentioned during this interview his near plans to meet with fellow Davos World Economic Forum panelist, Roman [...]

John Hooper of The Guardian reports from Rome: Some 15,000 worshippers gathered yesterday at the shrine of the Roman Catholic saint and mystic Padre Pio, as his exhumed body went on display for the first time since his death almost 40 years ago. More than a million people are expected to file past a transparent [...]

When I was about 10 or 12 years old we went to the Santa Fe Depot in the town I grew up in to meet the train my cousin was on. He and his mother and sisters were traveling from Dallas to see us in Purcell, Oklahoma. In any case, I was excited to see [...]

A post at Apprising Ministries which brings to your attention the use of "prayer rooms" within the Southern Baptist Convention based on a story from the Baptist Press. Of course there’s nothing wrong with encouraging people to pray. At the same time in SBC Embraces Emergent Church and Contemplative Spirituality AM already showed you that the Contemplative/Centering Prayer of mysticism, [...]

One of the many ‘attacks’ this ministry has received since its inception has been on our treatment of scripture as inerrant and that it has authority over the Christian Church. With that said, I would like to address one of the latest attempts by a certain self-proclaimed ‘prophet’ to distract me from the ‘mission’ God [...]

Apprising Ministries with a post offering godly words of wisdom from Charles Spurgeon for those carrying a heavy load right now…

For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” In the same way also [...]

Apprising Ministries with a piece using Bob DeWaay’s critique of Dallas Willard‘s book The Spirit of the Disciplines (SoD) to further expose these spurious so-called “spiritual disciplines” allegedly rediscovered by Living Spiritual Teacher Richard Foster. Foster’s cohort is supposedly the “scholar” who adds his weight to this Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, particularly through his SoD and here DeWaay uses [...]

Ya can’t make this stuff up folks as The Associated Press reports on an interesting choice for a Christian preacher in dealing with marital problems: Televangelist Juanita Bynum says in a two-part episode of "Divorce Court" that she’s through with her marriage to minister Thomas W. Weeks III, who is on probation for assaulting her. In [...]

In a post at Apprising Ministries you read the definition of Contemplative/Centering Prayer, or what is in reality transcendental meditation lightly sprayed with Christian terminology, from Thomas Keating, a man universally known as an authority of this neo-pagan practice. One of the reasons I have been covering this false form of prayer is that these specious "spiritual disciplines" [...]

CRN contributer Chris Rosebrough appeared on today’s edition of Cross Talk and the topic of discussion was Rob Bell’s appearance at the Seeds of Compassion. Did Rob Bell represent the Christian faith or did Bell’s appearance contribute to the spiritual lies being promoted at this inter-spiritual event? Click Here to listen to this important interview.

Here is a video that depicts the Mormon myth that Jesus appeared to Hebrews that were supposedly living in South America at the time of His Ascension. The Jesus of Mormonism is not the real Jesus. The Mormon Jesus is the brother of Lucifer and His mission is to show us how to become gods.

The New York Times with another example of the despicable divisiveness of liberal theology with its man-love and which concerns "Gay Bishop" Gene Robinson : the openly gay Episcopal prelate whose consecration led conservatives to split from the church, [who] said in an interview on Thursday that he and his partner of 20 years were [...]

Fox News is reporting: In his upcoming biography of Jesus, “Basic Instinct” director Paul Verhoeven will make the shocking claim that Christ probably was the son of Mary and a Roman soldier who raped her during the Jewish uprising in Galilee. An Amsterdam publishing house said Wednesday it will publish the Dutch filmmaker’s biography of [...]

While some “Christian” pastors have slipped their Biblical moorings and are now apologizing for opposing abortion, men like Barack Obama are leading the charge against pro-life legislation. After watching this video ask yourself whether or not Christians should be apologizing for fighting to stop the murders of millions of unborn children who have no voice [...]