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Category Archives: Postmodern/Emergent Church
Hallmarks of Spiritual Abuse and Sally’s Story (© 2018, Sally Richardson)
Phyllis Beveridge Nissila Introduction: Today’s post is a contribution from a reader in the UK who shares her story of spiritual abuse in several churches. She also presents a list of the hallmarks of such churches, which aligns with the … Continue reading
Letters to the Remnant: Welcome! (New Series)
Phyllis Beveridge Nissila Co-Saints, Perhaps you, too, can relate to the following: In recent months or years you left one or the other denominational church because you realized the leadership focus shifted from the basic tenants of Christianity to purposes, … Continue reading
On “WIKIs” and Truth (Commentary/Devotional)
Phyllis Nissila WIKI BRAIN? I was listening to an interview with a futurist, a person who makes his living predicting and estimating life ten, twenty, even a thousand years from now. As opposed to many people in these days of … Continue reading
Posted in Commentaries, Devotionals, devotionals and commentaries featuring technology, free will, most recent posts, On Free Will, Postmodern/Emergent Church, technology
Tagged Body of Christ, Devotional citing Hebrews 13:5, Devotional citing Hebrews 13:9, Devotional citing Jeremiah 17:9, devotional citing Matthew 11:28, futurists, God is true, Jesus, New Thought, Search for truth, Wiki, WikiHow, Wikipedia
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Johanna Michaelsen on Rapture Ready Radio, June 10, 2012: Her Testimony and Warning to Christians About Occult Influences Inside the Church
Phyllis Nissila I’m posting last evening’s Rapture Ready Radio program, “Afterglow,” co-hosted by Tim Roden and Vince Tarquini (Sunday, June 10, 2012). Their guest was Johanna Michaelsen, author of The Beautiful Side of Evil, and Like Lambs to the Slaughter: … Continue reading
Posted in Contemplative/Mysticism, cult and occult, most recent posts, Postmodern/Emergent Church
Tagged apostasy, Bill Johnson Bethel Church, contemplative prayer influences, emergent church influences, johanna michaelsen, Like Lambs to the Slaughter: Your Child and the Occult, mysticism, new apostolic reformation influences, occult, occult influence in the church, The Beautiful Side of Evil, yoga in the church
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On Paradigms and Postmodernism in the Church: Watch Your Step
Phyllis Nissila What prompts this commentary is a brief conversation I had on the term “paradigm” with the hosts of Rapture Ready Radio’s “Afterglow” program a few weeks ago (May 27th, 2012). The term paradigm, coupled with the current … Continue reading
Posted in Commentaries, Contemplative/Mysticism, Ex-Roman Catholic/Catholicism, Postmodern/Emergent Church
Tagged danger of postmodernism in the church, good soil and bad soil parable, Influence of the Hegelian dialectic in the church, new mysticism in the church, parable of the sower, paradigm shift in the church, postmodernism in the church, warning about the new mysticism
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“Mrs. P.” and the Gold Rosary Beads: The Danger of One Degree Off
Phyllis Nissila The following story happened some years ago when I worked as an administrative assistant for a ministry set up to help people leave religious cults. [1] The woman at the center of the story was not one of … Continue reading
Posted in Commentaries, Contemplative/Mysticism, Ex-Roman Catholic/Catholicism, most recent posts, Postmodern/Emergent Church, Purgatory
Tagged Ancient Mystics in the church, contemplative prayer in the church, dangers of "centering prayer", dangers of "soaking prayer", dangers of contemplative prayer, dangers of the rosary, Roman Catholic mysticism, Sozo, Spiritual Formation, Teresa of Avila, the new mysticism, the rosary
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The Danger of Postmodernism in the Church (The Turn of the Snake)
Phyllis Nissila THE POWER OF QUESTION A pretty crafty one, that Satan, to initiate the downfall of mankind with an innocent-enough sounding question: “Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?” (Genesis 3:1, … Continue reading
Response to a Contemplative Prayer Advocate from a Former Roman Catholic
Phyllis Nissila A CONTEMPLATIVE DISAGREES Recently, I read a letter from a contemplative prayer advocate expressing disagreement with writers of articles critiquing that practice. The letter writer wonders why the authors would denigrate the prayer form that “had its flowering … Continue reading
Posted in Commentaries, Contemplative/Mysticism, Ex-Roman Catholic/Catholicism, most recent posts, Postmodern/Emergent Church, Purgatory
Tagged contemplative prayer gnosticism, contemplative prayer in the church, contemplative prayer is not Christian, desert fathers contemplative prayer, responding to contemplative prayer advocates, Roman Catholic contemplative prayer
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On Discerning the Difference Between Religious Phenomena from Upgraded Old Catholic “Mystical Experiences” and Truth
Phyllis Beveridge Nissila I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you to live in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— 7 which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are … Continue reading →