Apprising Ministries correspondent Christine Pack of Sola Sisters shows you, again, in her post Saddleback Promotes “Christianized” Mantra Meditation what I first showed you e.g. in Southern Baptist Pastor Rick Warren And Saddleback Church Openly Recommend Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism. Here we’ll see another example of it with Steve Gladen, who’s “now the Pastor of Small Groups at [the] Saddleback Church” [1] of Purpose […]

God has not left us to fish around in the world of spirits and subjective experiences to know Him and speak to Him. God send His Son, who pre-existed as God and with God, to be born of a virgin and live in history in the flesh. The apostles heard Him, touched Him and saw […]

What is the whole papacy but a beautiful false front and a deceptively glittering holiness under which the wretched devil lies in hiding? The devil always desires to imitate God in this way. He cannot bear to observe God speaking. If he cannot prevent it or hinder God’s Word by force, he opposes it with […]

By Apprising Ministries correspondent Christine Pack of Sola Sisters Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church website features two books by Quaker and mystic Richard Foster, today’s leading proponent of something known as “Spiritual Disciplines” or “Spiritual Formation.”  Also promoted are several other books focusing on the Spiritual Disciplines, which teach a practice that is nothing more than a “Christianized” version […]

The online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries has been covering the rise of the sinfully ecumenical neo-liberal cult of the Emerging Church within mainstream squishy evanjellyfish.  As I explained in Emergent Church: A Diseased Tree the discernment ministry Herescope has some excellent articles that uncover the real truth about the actual beginnings of the Emergent Church through Leadership […]

Because of these times in which we live, and due to the unbridled arrogance of this postmodern pagan nation to which Christ has sent us, it will require our Lord’s true ministers to approach our more public stance much like John the Baptist did. As you recall he wasn’t exactly the proto-typical ecumenical Purpose Driven/Seeker Driven Emerging […]

Just a short note asking for prayer, particularly if you’ve been blessed by this online apologetics and discernment work, and making you aware that the hard drive in the main computer at here at Apprising Ministries has crashed. Fortunately back problems had forced me to do much of my work from a laptop so the loss […]

See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ. (Colossians 2:8, ESV) Postmodern Word Games Apprising Ministries is an online apologetics and discernment work specializing in analyzing current trends in the visible church apprising […]

And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the LORD. And behold, at the entrance of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs to the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east, worshiping the sun toward the […]

By Bud Press, Director Christian Research Service Point #1: Business of betrayal   In what was once thought to be a closed chapter in Todd Bentley’s Book of Angelic Anomalies, Emma the female angel has returned. According to Bentley, “she” never left.   Beginning at 6:14 into a YouTube video titled, Todd Bentley-“Repenting for offending the supernatural,” […]