Spiritual Formations/Contemplative
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How can prayer be wrong? How can meditation be wrong? You have really gone overboard on this one! How they are wrong is really quite simple. They are wrong when the Sole Mediation of Jesus Christ before the eternal Holy God for us and His provisions of grace through His Word and Spirit - ARE EXCHANGED - for methods and techniques and mystical touching of the holy - by our own doings! It is something else displacing someone else as the basis of mediation between God and men. And the result is, by putting it in the context of the Gospels, instead of "Jesus as the Way" we now have "the Way of Jesus" as the emphasis of a super-spiritual and totally disfigured "Christianity." This is movement back to the dark ages. However:
"There is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself as a ransom for all, the testimony given at the proper time." 1 Timothy 2:5 NASB
"Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a sincere hart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water." Hebrews 10:19-22 NASB
"There is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself as a ransom for all, the testimony given at the proper time." 1 Timothy 2:5 NASB
"Therefore, brethren, since we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a sincere hart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water." Hebrews 10:19-22 NASB
Articles:
The Labyrinth: A Walk to Life or a Walk to Death?By Steve MuseRead Article
The Dangers of Spiritual Formation & Spiritual Disciplines: A Critique of Dallas Willard & the Spirit of the Disciplinesby Bob DeWaayRead Article
Spiritual "Breathing"by Discernment Research GroupRead Article
Book Review: A Time of Departing (Ray Yungen)by Gary GilleyRead Article
God in Everything? The Premise of Contemplative Prayerby Ray YungenRead Article
Contemplative Prayer or Terror?by Roger OaklandRead Article
Do Christian Leaders Understand the Contemplative Prayer Movement?By Christopher LawsonRead Article
Meditation and Contemplative Prayer: Test the Spiritsby Warren SmithRead Article
Richard Foster and the Be Still DVD by Ray YungenRead Article
The Dangers of Spiritual Formation & Spiritual Disciplines: A Critique of Dallas Willard & the Spirit of the Disciplinesby Bob DeWaayRead Article
Spiritual "Breathing"by Discernment Research GroupRead Article
Book Review: A Time of Departing (Ray Yungen)by Gary GilleyRead Article
God in Everything? The Premise of Contemplative Prayerby Ray YungenRead Article
Contemplative Prayer or Terror?by Roger OaklandRead Article
Do Christian Leaders Understand the Contemplative Prayer Movement?By Christopher LawsonRead Article
Meditation and Contemplative Prayer: Test the Spiritsby Warren SmithRead Article
Richard Foster and the Be Still DVD by Ray YungenRead Article
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Apologetics
Beth Moore
Bethel University
Charles Spurgeon
Christian Worldview
Church Growth Movement
Contemplative Prayer
Discernment
Eldridge, John/Staci
Eschatology
Globalism
Hearing the Voice of God
Historic Confessions
Humanism
Jesus Storybook Bible
John Piper
Kingdom Now Theology
Martin Luther
Mysticism
NT Wright
Orrel Steinkamp
Paul Young (The Shack)
Richard Foster
Rick Warren
Rob Bell
Robert Schuller
Signs & Wonders
Spiritual Formations
True Worship
Twilight Saga





