Apprising Ministries brings to your attention an article by Brett McCracken called The Perils of ‘Wannabe Cool’ Christianity, which appeared online yesterday at The Wall Street Journal. If you didn’t know, the title of this piece is a play off the title of McCracken’s just published book Hipster Christianity: Where Church and Cool Collide. His book bio tells us that his […]

The online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries has told you that apostatizing pretending to be Protestant evangelicalism is paying a heavy price for its foolish embrace of the sinfully ecumenial Emerging Church aka Emergent Church—which has grown into a full-blown neo-liberal cult operating within its walls; and what we’re now dealing with is an upgraded Emerging Church 2.0 complete with its new version […]

Is Benny Hinn A Patron of the Arts? An inquiring mind wanted to know by Bud Press, Director Christian Research Service August 13, 2010 The August 2, 2010 edition of the NATIONAL ENQUIRER hit the newsstands on July 23, and featured a two-page article on an alleged “Torrid Affair” between American televangelists Benny Hinn and Paula White. […]

The online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries, which extends as an outreach of the local church where I’m pastor—SBC (for now)—has long been critical of the Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren. In addition to his twisting of the Bible as if it’s his personal piece of Play-Doh, as a former Roman Catholic, I am personally offended by his double-minded […]

 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies, to make you obey its passions. (Romans 6:12) Sin is not to be king over your mortal bodies.  Sin is not to be obeyed.  Your body is to be used for righteousness since you have been brought from death to life.  Sin must not be allowed […]

 This is a bit of a follow up/update of the Apprising Ministries post Rick Warren Defends Church Challange where I told you that Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren tweeted the below boast. Warren then deleted it within a couple of hours, and yet today the self-professed “Pastor to pastors” who, “Leads network of churches in 195 nations-PEACE Plan,” […]

…is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. (James 1:8) Rick Warren’s “Now You See It; Now You Don’t” Teaching Style Apprising Ministries has been among the online apologetics and discernment ministries who brought to your attention an ill-advised decision by Dr. John Piper to bring Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren into the Desiring God Conference 2010 as the keynote speaker. Standard […]

Apprising Ministries continues covering the sad saga of Anne Rice because it’s also an indicator of evangelicalism, in very much the same way as gay affirming “pastor” Jay Bakker Reflects The Sad Condition Of The Visible Church. In addition, as I said in Anne Rice In Apostasy,  if she would drop this and move, then I wouldn’t […]