Month: February 2012

NXIVM / Executive Success Programs

Also known as Executive Success Programs, NXIVM is a company offering courses in the development of human potential.

Devotees praise the program, but others view the organization to be, sociologically, a cult.

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Apologetics Resource Center

The Apologetics Resource Center (ARC) is a non-profit ministry whose mission is to reach the minds and hearts of people with the message and truth claims of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

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Wandering Stars: An Examination of the New Apostles and Prophets

New Apostles and Prophets

In recent years the Christian Church has seen an explosion of independent ministries led by men and women claiming to speak and act with apostolic and prophetic authority.

Yet many of their statements and teachings strike at the very heart of essential Christian doctrine and the nature of Christianity.

A book review by Anton Hein

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New apostles and prophets pose a serious treat to the Church

New Apostles and Prophets

A close examination reveals that the new apostolic and prophetic movement poses a serious threat to the doctrional integrity of the Church.

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Catalyst Counselling

Catalyst Counselling, Cult Experts

Catalyst Counselling, a registered charity in the UK, offers “help, assistance and counselling to people who have been damaged by religious groups or abusive relationships” — cults It also “address other problems that are faith, philosophical or relationship based.” The charity’s counsellor is Graham Baldwin, a cult expert.… Read more

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Qi Gong

Also written as qigong. From the Chinese ki = energy, the air, and gong = time, practice. Qi Gong is a system of physical exercises, breathing and mental training, with as purpose the strengthening of the body’s internal energy as well as controlling the circulation of qi.… Read more

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QI

Qi, also written as chi, is Chinese for: energy, the air. Originally the word meant ‘air,’ ‘breath’ or ‘energy,’ but currently it signifies ‘vital essence’ – said to be the supreme nourishing and protecting energy in the body, which circulates through the acupuncture meridians.… Read more

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Warrior Anointing

Warrior Annointing

One of countless unbiblical concepts taught and promoted by John and Carol Arnott, pastors of the Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship (TACF) — the birth place of the controversial revival movement known as the Toronto Blessing. [Note that 2010 the church was renamed, ‘Catch The Fire.’]… Read more

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Walk-away

Walk-Away

The term ‘walk-away’ is used of someone who has left a cult on his or her own accord. There are some who claim that people who are caught up in a cult or cult-like group have been brainwashed to such and extent that they are never willing or able to leave.… Read more

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Mike Warnke

Mike Warnke was a Christian comic whose allegedly autobiographical book “The Satan Seller” turned out to be a fraud. In his book Warnke claimed to have been a Satanic high priest. However, those claims were discredited in an investigative report published in 1992 in the Christian magazine Cornerstone.… Read more

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Spiritual War Cries and War Terminology

War Cries & Terminology

Adherents of some renewal- and revival movements like to use 'war cries' and war terminology, which they claim is useful in spiritual warfare.

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