“His disciples remembered that it is written, ‘Zeal for your house will consume me.’” (John 2:17) This verse is a quote of Psalm 69:9 where the psalmist is crying to God because of the opposition he has endured from his enemies. The major reason that his enemies have a strong opposition to him is because […]

Here again the online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries gives you these two items, which seem to keep moving around their websites and/or suddenly disappearing. Embedded media from Saddleback Media Center John Piper Interview Pastor Rick Warren Transcript See also: JOHN PIPER, RICK WARREN & FOSTER-WILLIARDISM SADDLEBACK CHURCH OF RICK WARREN USING ROB BELL […]

“Do two walk together, unless they have agreed to meet?” (Amos 3:3) The Lord Will Always See Through Anyone’s Attempt At “File Cabinet Orthodoxy” I’ve pointed out before that the Lord chose to raise up Apprising Ministries as an online apologetics and discernment work; as such, it’s a large part on my mission here to cover […]

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work. (2 Timothy 3:16-17) Contemplative Mysticism Cripples Biblical Faith Apprising Ministries continues documenting the growing influence of Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) right into the […]

The following by Dr. Gary Gilley, pastor of Southern View Chapel, is republished at Apprising Ministries with permission: The Deeper Journey is published by the formatio wing of InterVarsity Press. Formatio books are dedicated to the promotion of classical Christian mysticism and this particular book serves formatio’s goals well.  Mulholland begins with the standard opening […]

There is a tendency, apparent at this present time, to think little of the conversion of individuals and to look upon the work of the Holy Spirit upon each separate person as much too slow a business for this progressive age. I am bold to assert that if ever we despise the method of individual […]

And there are a lot of new-Calvinists today who are basically followers of Charles Finney when it comes to the actual practice of ministry. You can’t staple Reformed Theology to a basically Finny-ite, revivalistic, ecclesiology. It’s fire and water. And people really aren’t going to be nurtured, at least by the people who preach to them week […]

And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. (2 Peter 2:3) Mysticism Uniting Apostates Apprising Ministries is an online apologetics and discernment work which has specialized in analyzing current trends in the visible church, apprising you as to what they are, and informing you as to how you can deal with them. Six years […]

Perhaps the most notable institutional example of the drift from affirming the inerrancy of Scripture to affirming the infallibility of Scripture was Fuller Theological Seminary. Its original statement of faith (written several years after its founding in 1947) contained the following article on Scripture: “The books which form the canon of the Old and New […]

Apprising Ministries has pointed out that a part of our labor in the Lord is our documenting of the painfully obvious New Downgrade going on within mainstream evangelicalism; not unlike The Downgrade Controversy Charles Spurgeon dealt with many years ago, which should be more and more obvious, at least for those blessed by God with eyes […]