While I am in no way in agreement with Leadership Network’s propped-up Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren, I’m concerned that his latest tweet below may show signs of stress over-coming him: Jesus never wore socks so I don’t either. It has saved me thousands of dollars over my lifetime. (Online source) Perhaps it’s time someone at Saddleback Church […]

You may be aware that the online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries extends from CRBC, the local church where I am pastor. It is aligned (for now) with the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). This is one of the reasons I have watched with sadness the drift of SBC megapastor Ed Young, Jr; who happens to […]

So says John H. Armstrong, president of ACT 3, in his blog post today Whither Brian McLaren? This is not to be seen as an endorsement of Armstrong by Apprising Ministries; but rather, I draw your attention to this piece from Armstrong because he tells us: I started reading Brian when his first book came out years ago. On […]

Apprising Ministries has been covering the Emerging Church for half a decade now; and for the past year, I’ve been showing you how it was a Trojan Horse taken inside mainstream evangelicalism. At its core this Emergent Church (EC) has always been an existential rebellion against the final authority of the Bible i.e. a rejection of the proper Christian spirituality […]

Apprising Ministries has been keeping you up to speed on reactions concerning the new book by Emergent Church leader Brian McLaren called A New Kind of Christianity (ANKoC).  I told you that in the book McLaren lays out his postmodern form of Progressive Christianity. As you’ll find out in Brian McLaren Making Up A “God” The Emerging Church Likes it’s really […]

In Apprising Ministries articles like Homopressive As Jay Bakker and Emerging Church, Jay Bakker And Outlaw Preachers I’ve alerted you to a group of largely biblically illiterate, and I say a rather rapscallion bunch spiritually, who call themselves Outlaw Preachers (OPs) that have galvanized around gay affirming “pastor” Jay Bakker. Then in pieces such as Emerging Church To TransFORM Outlaw Preachers I’ve showed you […]

“In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires.” (Jude 18) The New Gnostics Apprising Ministries has long been covering  the sinfully ecumenical Emerging Church de-formation of the Christian faith aka Emergent Church—that’s now morphed into Emergence Christianity (EC)—and the detrimental effects of its core doctrine of corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) perpetrated as so-called Spiritual Formation (SF) […]

In the video below, emergent author Brian McLaren is interviewed by universalist Spencer Burke of  The Ooze.  In the interview, Burke is helping McLaren promote his latest book, A New Kind of Christianity, which is an open assault on the Word of God. To show how far McLaren’s rebellion has gone, he is now listed ing […]

This is a bit of a follow up to the earlier Apprising Ministries post Apprising Ministries And The Supposed New Pharisaism where I told you about a new ebook, subtitled How Spiritual Bullies Attack The Church. Therein Bill Slabaugh, for $12.95 a pop, will tell you that the church now faces “a  new level of intensity  when  it  comes  to spiritual […]

“For from within, out of men’s hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from inside.”  (Mark 7:21-23) Creating Your Own Way To Worship In the Apprising Ministries post Monvee To Open Door For Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism In Evangelicalism I showed you yet another way that […]