You may recall Apprising Ministries carried a post by my good friend and CRN correspondent Stephen Macasil called Perry Noble And NewSpring Church Attempt To Silence Their Critic: Dr. James Duncan. Therein Macasil informs us: Dr. James Duncan, Associate Professor of Communication at Anderson University, has written “Holy Rage at the ‘Spring,” a detailed account […]

The goal of this command is love, which comes from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. Some have wandered away from these and turned to meaningless talk. They want to be teachers of the law, but they do not know what they are talking about or what they so confidently […]

I’ve talked before here at Apprising Ministries about what I call the “plus-minus apologetic.” By that I mean, we know e.g. an author is against a given topic; but he still begins his article with a few items in the plus category before moving on to the many things in the minus category, until we then reach the […]

What follows is an important post from Stephen Macasil that orginally appears at Christian Research Network, which extends from Apprising Ministries. Macasil writes: Dr. James Duncan, Associate Professor of Communication at Anderson University, has written “Holy Rage at the ‘Spring,” a detailed account of his recent experience with NewSpring Church (Perry Noble’s church). Some of […]

Today Rob Bell, the Elvis of the  egregiously ecumenical Emerging Church aka Emergent Church, which is a cult of postliberalism—now morphing into Emergence Christianity (EC), made it a point to tweet the below:  Yes, yes, yes: http://www.esquire.com/features/best-and-brightest-2009/shane-claiborne-1209 @realrobbell (Online source)  The link takes us to What If Jesus Meant All That Stuff. In that article a couple of weeks ago Shane Claiborne […]

We subtitle this short follow-up to the Apprising Ministries post Note To Emerging Church TranFORM: Yet Another Adventure In Missing The Point. If you’ve dialogued with as many folks ‘round the  egregiously ecumenical Emerging Church aka Emergent Church, which is a cult of postliberalism—now morphing into Emergence Christianity (EC)—as I have, then you’ll know well what I’m about to […]

One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?” “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord […]

But you, beloved, ought to remember the words that were spoken beforehand by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, that they were saying to you, “In the last time there will be mockers, following after their own ungodly lusts.” These are the ones who cause divisions, worldly-minded, devoid of the Spirit. (Jude 17-19, NASB) These Men […]

First you begin with a great big bowl full of years of shallow self-centered “what does this verse mean to me” Bible studies. Next stir in a large measure of biblical illiteracy, while adding a small dose of the yeast of refusing to refute error; and make sure to blend in more than a moderate […]

Well ok, it’s not so much that Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren himself is any radical, but he does want to make sure you know that his next generation seeker-sensitive boyz sure r. I’m sorry about being plain; you see, I don’t have a keyboard that can reverse the letter r to be more rad. However, today via the mass […]