Category: *CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY

The Music and the Mystical

by Larry DeBruyn  Music engenders mystical experiences. This can be discerned from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera and lyrics from The Music of the Night: “Night time sharpens heightens each sensation / Darkness wakes and stirs imagination…

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Contemplative Terms, and What They Mean

Ancient Wisdom The supposed laws of the Universe that, when mastered, enable one to see one’s own divinity-another word for metaphysics or occultism. A Thin Place Where the space or distance (spiritually speaking) between heaven and earth, God and man…

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COLLEGE WATCH: John Brown University Says Yes to Emerging and Contemplative

According to the Articles of Faith at John Brown University in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, the university believes the Bible is the “inspired, the only infallible, authoritative word of God” and that Jesus Christ is God. But their Bachelor of Science…

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Celebration of Discipline – 27 Years of Influence!

First published in 1978, Celebration of Discipline has had a massive influence on Christendom. Unfortunately, the influence has helped to saturate the church with mystical contemplative prayer and the New Age. Most likely, your pastor has a copy of this…

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Focus on the Family Once Again Says OK to Contemplative Prayer

As many of you may know, we received a letter in May from Focus on the Family after asking them why they were promoting and endorsing author Gary Thomas, who is a promoter of contemplative prayer. Thomas, in his book…

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Women of Faith Conferences

Women of Faith is a Christian franchise that has held conferences for over 3 million women since its inception in 1996. In 2000, Christian publisher Thomas Nelson bought the Women of Faith franchise and has a strong influence in the…

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