by Marcia Montenegro | Nov 19, 2020 | Centering Prayer, Contemplative Prayer, Cosmic Christ, Eastern Mysticism, Gnostic, Panentheism, Richard Rohr
In 2017 I wrote how dismaying it was that Christian gospel singer Gloria Gaither would not only approvingly interview Richard Rohr, but she used his book, Falling Upward, in a Bible study. With the infectious spread of Rohr’s false doctrine in the church it seems time...
by Marcia Montenegro | Oct 10, 2020 | Beth Moore, Buddhism, Centering Prayer, Contemplative Prayer, Eastern Mysticism, Labyrinth, Meditation, New Age, Richard Foster
(Originally printed in the Spring/Summer 2006 Issue of the MCOI Journal beginning on page 12) Devote yourselves to prayer, keeping alert in it with an attitude of thanksgiving. . . (Col. 4:2 NASB). Many thanks and credit go to Kim Treweek for the painstaking work of...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Oct 8, 2020 | Cosmic Christ, Eastern Mysticism, Enneagram, Incarnation, mysticism, Panentheism, Richard Rohr
Mysticism has become a growth industry within the confessing church in recent years. The reading and studying of the Word of God in its historical/grammatical context has long been known to be the way to understand the things of God and the gospel, but it is...
by Don and Joy Veinot | Aug 20, 2020 | Beth McCord, Deception, Eastern Mysticism, Enneagram, kabbalah, mysticism, New Age, Occult, Occultism, Paganism, Panentheism, Pastors, Psychic, Psychology
There is no doubt that the Enneagram is taking much of the Christian church by storm. There are currently over 15 titles being sold by “Christian” publishers with more on the way, selling in the hundreds of thousands of copies. It is being used as a 9-week sermon...
by Don and Joy Veinot | May 21, 2020 | Authoritarian, Beth McCord, Church leadership, Deception, Defend the Faith, Definitions, Eastern Mysticism, Enneagram, Gnostic, Guarding the flock, Heresy, Ian Morgan Cron, New Age, Occult, Paganism, Pastors, Suzanne Stabile
Very often when we read Scripture we do not enter emotionally into the story. As a result, we miss the very real human elements in exchanges like the one Paul had with the Ephesian elders in Acts 20 as he gave them a charge which included: Therefore, be alert,...
by Don and Joy Veinot | May 14, 2020 | Christmas, Contemplative Prayer, Deception, Eastern Mysticism, Enneagram, Homeschool, New Age, Occult, Paganism, Panentheism, Psychic
In the late 19th Century there was concern over “inroads of secularization in higher education and as a base for the education of lay workers and full-time Bible teachers, evangelists, and pastors.”1“Bible college” The main concern for parents then was how they could...
