Archive for August 2008

Some Thoughts on Limited Atonement and "What Did Jesus Accomplish on the Cross?" by Jim McClarty

Aug 31st, 2008 | By admin | Category: Reformata Blogs

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Limited (or definite) atonement has to be one of the most hated and most caricatured positions of all that’s taught in the systematic theology known as Calvinism. I personally believe that this is due to people not believing that they are rightly condemned before [...]



CHRISTIANITY TODAY PROMOTING THE CULT OF RICHARD FOSTER

Aug 31st, 2008 | By admin | Category: Reformata Blogs

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In the September 2008 Christianity Today magazine there’s a feature interview with Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster. In the Apprising Ministries article Contemplative/Centering Prayer As “Christian” Meditation we look further at the so-called “spiritual disciplines” of the spurious Spiritual Formation aka Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, which he teaches along with his spiritual twin [...]



Christianity Today Promoting The Cult of Richard Foster

Aug 31st, 2008 | By admin | Category: Reformata Blogs

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In the September 2008 Christianity Today magazine there’s a feature interview with Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster. In the Apprising Ministries article Contemplative/Centering Prayer As “Christian” Meditation we look further at the so-called “spiritual disciplines” of the spurious Spiritual Formation aka Contemplative Spirituality/Myticism, which he teaches along with his [...]



My Soul Waits for the Lord

Aug 31st, 2008 | By admin | Category: Reformata Blogs

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Despite the prevalent “Christian” teachings in our time that suffering is never God’s will for His people, a close, sober, and honest study of scripture reveals that the fires of tribulation are used by God to form and refine His people. The view that God [...]



Sovereign in the Midst of the Storm

Aug 31st, 2008 | By admin | Category: Reformata Blogs

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CONTEMPLATIVE/CENTERING PRAYER AS “CHRISTIAN” MEDITATION

Aug 31st, 2008 | By admin | Category: Reformata Blogs

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At Apprising Ministries you will likely hear me talking more about the new spirituality which has now slithered its way deep into postevangelicalism from its den in the Emerging Church. The fact is this neopagan Gnostic spirituality is most pointedly on display in the misguided [...]



John MacArthur - A Tale Of Two Sons

Aug 31st, 2008 | By admin | Category: Reformata Blogs

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Introducing Reformata TV

Aug 31st, 2008 | By admin | Category: Reformata Blogs

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I am pleased to announce the launch of Reformata TV. Reformata TV allows you to watch full-length, biblical sermons and share them with friends. You can embed the videos in your blog or website, or email them to a friend. More videos will be coming [...]



Introducing Reformata TV

Aug 31st, 2008 | By admin | Category: Featured

I am pleased to announce the launch of Reformata TV. Reformata TV allows you to watch full-length, biblical sermons and share them with friends. You can embed the videos in your blog or website, or email them to a friend. More videos will be coming soon, and I will be adding more categories eventually. You [...]



One Cry Away…

Aug 31st, 2008 | By admin | Category: Reformata Blogs

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When I was a young boy, I spent a whole summer vacation with my cousins on their farm in South Dakota. That was an adventure I will never forget.
One of our favorite hot summer afternoon pastimes was to cool off in the stock tank. One [...]



SACRED WAY OF TONY JONES AND THE EMERGING CHURCH

Aug 31st, 2008 | By admin | Category: Reformata Blogs

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The Lord be praised that He has seen fit to open the door for Apprising Ministries to have become one of the leading voices against the postliberal cult of the Emergent Church. Because of the issue with Richard Abanes, which blew up the original AM website, as God [...]



Rick Warren Guilty for Endorsing the Cult of Guru Richard Foster and his Reimagined Gnostic Mysticism

Aug 31st, 2008 | By admin | Category: Reformata Blogs

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The September issue of Christianity Astray Today magazine is poised to bring favorable attention to The Cult Guru Richard Foster. So Apprising Ministries reminds you that in his modern Church Growth classic The Purpose Driven Church PDL Pope Rick Warren says that from “time to time God [...]



RICK WARREN GUILTY FOR ENDORSING THE CULT OF GURU RICHARD FOSTER AND HIS REIMAGINED GNOSTIC MYSTICISM

Aug 31st, 2008 | By admin | Category: Reformata Blogs

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I hate those who regard vain idols, But I trust in the LORD. (Psalm 31:6, NASB)
These Opened The Mystical Door Of No Return
With the September issue of Christianity Astray Today magazine poised to bring favorable attention to The Cult Guru Richard Foster here Apprising Ministries reminds [...]



Studies in Prayer: Part 7

Aug 31st, 2008 | By admin | Category: Featured, Reformata Blogs

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Loma Community Church
August 31st, 2008
A Study on Prayer
With some direct references from
“A Call to Prayer”
By J.C. Ryle
Part 7: Thankfulness & Intercession
“Confess your trespasses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man [...]



Marsha West: “We Have Had Enough of False Prophets”

Aug 31st, 2008 | By admin | Category: Reformata Blogs

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This is simply a must-read article on the Todd Bentley circus act that crashed and burned. Thank you, Marsha West, for taking time to document what was said and done and for tying it all together!
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Who Are We? An Open Letter

Aug 30th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Reformata Blogs

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Men, my brothers, it is indeed my prayer that some of you will hear these words anew, that they might be fresh like that first crisp taste of fall after a long, dry summer. For others, it is also my prayer that these words would [...]



JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES AND ISAIAH 9:6

Aug 30th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Reformata Blogs

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A classic verse of Scripture concerning the nature of the Messiah (Hebrew - Mashiyach), or the Christ (Greek - Christos), is Isaiah 9:6 – For to us a child is born, to us a son s given, and the government will be on his shoulders. [...]



For the Lord’s Day: The God of Abraham Praise

Aug 30th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Reformata Blogs

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The God of Abraham praise, who reigns enthroned above;
Ancient of everlasting days, and God of Love;
Jehovah, great I AM! by earth and Heav’n confessed;
I bow and bless the sacred Name forever blessed.
The God of Abraham praise, at Whose supreme command
From earth I rise—and seek the [...]



JOEL HEMPHILL DOES DENY THE DEITY OF CHRIST

Aug 30th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Reformata Blogs

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Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the [...]



God Is On The Dems Side

Aug 30th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Reformata Blogs

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In the same line of thinkin that spawned Michael Moore’s incredible ignorance, comes this gem featuring some of the democratic party leadership.
True believers, from the party that advocates the wholesale slaughter of the yet to be born.
Psalm 2:
4He who sits in the heavens laughs;
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