We begin this short post with the below report from One News Now that:  In a building damaged by debris from the Sept. 11 airliners that brought down the World Trade Center and soon to become a 13-story mosque, some see the bridging of a cultural divide and an opportunity to serve a burgeoning, peaceful […]

They built the high places of Baal in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to offer up their sons and daughters to Molech, though I did not command them, nor did it enter into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin. (Jeremiah 32:35, ESV) Throwing Your Evangelical Young Into […]

Apprising Ministries wonders: When did occultic automatic writing i.e. channeling become part of Protestant evangelicalism; well, apparently it is now. The following, published by Thomas Nelson, is a vivid illustration of the grave spiritual danger of the corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM), which is perpetrated as so-called Spiritual Formation (SF), e.g. by Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster along with his […]

A new and more powerful proclamation of law is perhaps the most pressing need of the hour; men would have little difficulty with the gospel if they had only learned the lesson of the law. As it is, they are turning aside from the Christian pathway; they are turning to the village of Morality, and […]

From time to time Apprising Ministries brings you the often insightful comments Christian apologist Chris Rosebrough by presenting segments of his Fighting for the Faith (FftF) program on Pirate Christian Radio (PCR). Here we point you to a post at the fine online apologetics and discernment work Sola Sisters (SS); it’s called Chris Rosebrough Interviewed About Emergent Conference. In it you’ll find the link to where Rosebrough talks […]

As an online apologetics and discernment work sent forth by Jesus it’s part of the job description that Apprising Ministries keep you apprised of issues going on within the visible church. One of those going on right now I began covering in Bloggers Target Seminary President Ergun Caner. There I pointed you to a web-only report by John […]

See also:  GOD SPEAKS THROUGH CHARLES SPURGEON TO THE EMERGING CHURCH AND ITS OUTLAW PREACHERS?  MEET OUTLAW PREACHERS  GARY GILLEY REVIEWS A NEW KIND OF CHRISTIANITY BY BRIAN MCLAREN   BRIAN MCLAREN SPREADING DIVISION IN THE CHURCH  BRIAN MCLAREN AND HIS NEW EMERGING PROGRESSIVE THEOLOGY  THE EMERGING CHURCH, PHILIP CLAYTON, AND NEW PROGRESSIVE THEOLOGY  LIBERALISM 2.0 […]

The following by Dr. Gary Gilley, pastor of Southern View Chapel, is republished at Apprising Ministries with permission: McLaren continues to redefine the Christian faith in this latest effort, which follows up his book Everything Must Change.  Under McLaren’s pen Christianity as defined in the Bible is now totally unrecognizable.  Without question McLaren has walked away from biblical Christianity, so […]

As shocking as that is here at Apprising Ministries, I actually do find a couple of points of agreement with Red Letter Christian and progressive/liberal church historian Diana Butler Bass. In her HuffPost today called Happy National Day of Prayer…Or Is It National Day of Fighting Over Prayer? Bass begins: In the weeks leading up to […]

This online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries has been among those who’ve been reporting on 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. Unfortunately, it got even worse when Dr. Piper defended his decision; and so, Warrengate is now slowly simmering: At root I think [Rick Warren] is […]