Willow Creek Fall 2007 Catalog Gives Clear Message

Mega-church leader,Willow Creek Association, is sending a clear message through their 2007 Fall Resource Catalog – contemplative spirituality and emergent theology are the way to go. The 58 page catalog is filled with heavy hitters in both camps. Those listed include meditation promoter Jim Collins, contemplative proponents John Ortberg, and Rick Warren, along with Erwin … [Read more…]

Alert: Center for Parent/Youth Understanding Pointing Visitors to Contemplative/Emergent

The Center for Parent/Youth Understanding is a non-profit organization that hopes to bridge the gap between parents and kids. However, the organization is pointing parents and teens to contemplative/emergent teachings. Walt Mueller, president and founder of CPYU states: If we take the time to understand and really know kids, then we’ll be able to cross … [Read more…]

Liberty University Continues Using Contemplative/Emerging Authors/Books

In February of 2007, Lighthouse Trails reported that Liberty University of Virginia was using contemplative books in some of their classes. The February report stated: [I]n Dr. David Wheeler’s Foundations in Youth Ministry II, Wheeler uses Mark Yaconelli’s book, Contemplative Youth Ministry. Yaconelli, the son of the late Mike Yaconelli (founder of Youth Specialties), is … [Read more…]

Dan Kimball: Modern Day Christianity Needs Combination of Nouwen and Maxwell

  In a Christianity Today article titled, “Shape-Shifting Leadership,” featuring Dan Kimball, Mark Driscoll, and Leith Anderson, Kimball states: I’ve read Nouwen’s In the Name of Jesus: Reflections on Christian Leadership a dozen times. It convicts me to the core about motives and the heart of leadership. But Henri was shepherding and loving a relatively … [Read more…]

America’s 50 Most Influential Churches – Many Pro-Contemplative/Emergent

 The Church Report has released their annual“America’s 50 Most Influential Churches” poll. The list is compiled each year by getting the input of around 2000 church pastors and leaders. Last year’s list, on which we reported, is very similar to this year’s. Willow Creek (Bill Hybels) is in the number one spot, and Saddleback (Rick … [Read more…]

Respected Ministries Say OK to Contemplative J.P. Moreland

J. P. Moreland is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Talbot (Biola) School of Theology. He has written numerous books and has spoken at over 200 colleges. He has many academic credentials and honors such as: Outstanding Young Men of America, 1981 and Senior Class Professor of the Year, Biola University, 1992-93. But Moreland has another … [Read more…]

Christian Classics Etheral Library Promotes the Mystics

The popular Christian Classics Ethereal Library is promoting mystic Madame Guyon. The CCEL has been used as a resource for many Christians. It is unfortunate that this promotion is taking place. On the CCEL website, it states (referring to Madame Guyon): Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de la Motte-Guyon (commonly known as Madame Guyon) (April 13, 1648 – … [Read more…]

Brennan Manning: Promoted by Christian Leaders But Resonates with New Agers

  In a June 3rd article called “NonDual Community: The Flowering of Intersubjectivity,” posted on a pro-mysticism, pro-New Age blog, the teachings of a woman named Beatrice Bruteau are discussed. The article states: [S]he has been active in articulating her own vision of an evolutionary spirituality and ecological ethics which integrates the best of ancient … [Read more…]

What’s Sex Got to Do With It?

The Bible says we live in a “crooked and perverse” world and that as believers we are to “shine as lights in the world”(Philippians 2:15). The closer we move toward the “end of the age” (Matthew 24), the darker and more perverse the world becomes. Global peace plans, inter-faith movements, emergent spiritualities, and other carnal-induced … [Read more…]

Teen Mania Goes Contemplative

Ron Luce’s Teen Mania and meditation promoter Liz Babbs are resonating with each other, and the connection is meditation. Luce is the “President and Founder of Teen Mania Ministries, a Christian youth organization that reaches millions of young people worldwide.” An October 2006 article, Teen Mania Introduces Kids to Contemplative-Promoting Speaker, explains that Teen Mania … [Read more…]

Rick Warren and Leonard Sweet Together Again — Sweet: Reinvent yourself for the 21st century or die.

The 2007 Catalyst Conference will be taking place this October, and long-time colleagues Rick Warren and New Age sympathizer Leonard Sweet will be speakers. Warren and Sweet have both been instrumental in helping set the stage for the emerging church movement. And even though Leonard Sweet has been an avid promoter of New Age ideas … [Read more…]

Walk to Emmaus

The Walk to Emmaus is a program put on by Upper Room Ministries. Upper Room promotes Spiritual Formation (i.e., contemplative spirituality), and if you want to understand the dynamics of Walk to Emmaus, then understanding the spirituality of Upper Room will help you. “The Walk to Emmaus is an adaptation of the Roman Catholic Cursillo … [Read more…]