Mysticism – Discerning the World https://www.discerningtheworld.com Discerning Biblical Answers for Christians in Todays World Sun, 28 Dec 2025 16:13:11 +0000 en-ZA hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://i0.wp.com/www.discerningtheworld.com/images/wpi/cropped-Discerning-the-World-512x512-1.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Mysticism – Discerning the World https://www.discerningtheworld.com 32 32 9019583 ANDREW MURRAY: THE MYSTIC (PART 11) https://www.discerningtheworld.com/2023/03/08/andrew-murray-the-mystic-part-11/ https://www.discerningtheworld.com/2023/03/08/andrew-murray-the-mystic-part-11/#comments Wed, 08 Mar 2023 16:29:28 +0000 https://www.discerningtheworld.com/?p=36835 Discerning the World - Discerning Biblical Answers for Christians in Todays World by Tom Lessing (Discerning the World)

The End – Accompanied by Magnificent Masonic Funeral Music Andrew Murray died on 18 January 1917, four months before his 89th birthday. He was so deeply influenced by Johann Christoph Blumhardt’s “Möttlingen” revival that he included a portion of Friedrich Zündel’s...

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]]> https://www.discerningtheworld.com/2023/03/08/andrew-murray-the-mystic-part-11/feed/ 2 36835 ANDREW MURRAY: THE MYSTIC (PART 10) https://www.discerningtheworld.com/2023/02/18/andrew-murray-the-mystic-part-10/ https://www.discerningtheworld.com/2023/02/18/andrew-murray-the-mystic-part-10/#respond Sat, 18 Feb 2023 09:46:12 +0000 https://www.discerningtheworld.com/?p=36808 Discerning the World - Discerning Biblical Answers for Christians in Todays World by Tom Lessing (Discerning the World)

“The Kingdom of God is within you” (Part 10) There are two noticeable aspects of Murray’s book “The Kingdom of God is within you” that bear the marks of subtle deception. The first is that Murray never fully quotes or...

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]]> https://www.discerningtheworld.com/2023/02/18/andrew-murray-the-mystic-part-10/feed/ 0 36808 ANDREW MURRAY: THE MYSTIC (PART 9) https://www.discerningtheworld.com/2023/02/14/andrew-murray-the-mystic-part-9/ https://www.discerningtheworld.com/2023/02/14/andrew-murray-the-mystic-part-9/#respond Tue, 14 Feb 2023 10:08:50 +0000 https://www.discerningtheworld.com/?p=36757 Discerning the World - Discerning Biblical Answers for Christians in Todays World by Tom Lessing (Discerning the World)

The Masonic Influences on Andrew Murray Paul warns us in Ephesians 5:11, “And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove [rebuke, expose] them.” This is not a two-pronged command; the one cannot be separated from...

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]]> https://www.discerningtheworld.com/2023/02/14/andrew-murray-the-mystic-part-9/feed/ 0 36757 ANDREW MURRAY: THE MYSTIC (PART 8) https://www.discerningtheworld.com/2023/02/09/andrew-murray-the-mystic-part-8/ https://www.discerningtheworld.com/2023/02/09/andrew-murray-the-mystic-part-8/#respond Thu, 09 Feb 2023 15:16:21 +0000 https://www.discerningtheworld.com/?p=36744 Discerning the World - Discerning Biblical Answers for Christians in Todays World by Tom Lessing (Discerning the World)

Why is Biblical doctrine important? The Bible is very clear on the punishment for the desecration of God’s doctrines. Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ,...

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]]> https://www.discerningtheworld.com/2023/02/09/andrew-murray-the-mystic-part-8/feed/ 0 36744 ANDREW MURRAY: THE MYSTIC (PART 7) https://www.discerningtheworld.com/2023/02/05/andrew-murray-the-mystic-part-7/ https://www.discerningtheworld.com/2023/02/05/andrew-murray-the-mystic-part-7/#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2023 09:43:37 +0000 https://www.discerningtheworld.com/?p=36715 Discerning the World - Discerning Biblical Answers for Christians in Todays World by Tom Lessing (Discerning the World)

True Love True love comes from a heart saturated with humility and meekness. Humility is not something you can evoke or engender by yourself through asceticism, monasticism, retreats, piety, contemplation, silence, solitude, or any other form of mysticism such as...

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Strange Mystical Bedfellows Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde said, “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” Paradoxically, he too, together with Thomas More, a vehement persecutor of heretics (Protestants), who was canonized as a saint by Pope Pius...

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Mystic Secrecy Mysticism has its roots in the notion that God is wholly incomprehensible. For William Law and mystics in general the universe is “wrapped in the impenetrable mystery of a God who is so infinitely greater than man, that,...

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]]> https://www.discerningtheworld.com/2023/01/23/andrew-murray-the-mystic-part-3/feed/ 1 36588 ANDREW MURRAY’S MYSTICISM (PART 2) https://www.discerningtheworld.com/2023/01/19/andrew-murrays-mysticism-part-2/ https://www.discerningtheworld.com/2023/01/19/andrew-murrays-mysticism-part-2/#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2023 14:24:36 +0000 https://www.discerningtheworld.com/?p=36484 Discerning the World - Discerning Biblical Answers for Christians in Todays World by Tom Lessing (Discerning the World)

Andrew Murray’s mysticism Perhaps the following facts about Andrew Murray’s mysticism are not so widely known as the many books he had written. Nonetheless, as you may see, it mirrors universal mysticism to its core. Murray’s books resonated so well...

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Introduction: Andrew Murray, The Mystic – The article is a response to a comment by Robert on the DTW Website (Discerning the World – 21 Nov. 2022). Hello, Tom Sorry for two comments in one day, but I have gone...

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An innovator par excellence Stephan Joubert is forever renewing old things. If not “The NEW new Testament” he has translated with Jan van der Watt, it is new ideas about the work of the Holy Spirit that keep popping up...

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