This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil. For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But he who practices the truth […]

Here in C?21, JOPA, and the Love of God my friend John Chisham, pastor of River of Life Alliance Church and fellow Christian Research Net contributor shares a few interesting exchanges he’s had with heretical quasi-universalist “pastor” Doug Pagitt. As a reader of Apprising Ministries you should know that Pagitt, along with his equally heretical “theologian in residence” Tony Jones, […]

A little while ago Perry Noble, one of the church-planting popes of the Carolinas, pontificated via Twitter: Scripture actually defines the Gospel…not the emerging needs of our culture! (Online source) The only problem with “redefining” the Gospel is when u r done u don’t have THE GOSPEL!!! (Online source) Could he possibly have dared to […]

Roman Catholicism is undoubtedly built upon the office of the papacy, for without it there would be no need for the supposed “one true Church of Christ” to exist. This is an adaptation of a much more involved and detailed work I’ve written about the false doctrine of the apostate Roman Catholic Church concerning their Bishop […]

The following by Dr. Gary Gilley, pastor of Southern View Chapel, is republished with permission: Everything Must Change is a large diverse work in which McLaren dabbles in everything from economics to politics to the eco-system to Jesus.  The author believes our planet is facing a perfect storm (his words) involving crises of four kinds.  He calls them: • Prosperity crisis—an […]

But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, […]

In Christianity 21: Emerging Voices Of A Pseudo-Christian Faith earlier Apprising Ministries has been warning of an upcoming conference of the egregiously ecumenical Emerging Church aka Emergent Church—morphing into Emergence Christianity (EC)—called  Christianity 21. This weekend C 21 is being put on by JoPa Prodictions, the company of heretical quasi-universalist pastor Doug Pagitt, half of a most dubious duo of the EC along […]

Apprising Ministries points you to this important short piece below by Christian apologist Chris Rosebrough, host of the Fighting for the Faith program which airs on his Pirate Christian Radio network: I found a quote today during my theological research that stopped me in my tracks. The quote was written during the Fundamentalist-Modernist controversy in the Presbyterian Church during […]

In a post at his Redeemer Church Planting Center “non-mainline Reformed” pastor Tim Keller says: The Willow Creek style churches have a ‘kingly’ emphasis on leadership, strategic thinking, and wise administration. The danger there is that the mechanical obscures how organic and spontaneous church life can be. The Reformed churches have a ‘prophetic’ emphasis on […]

It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. (Galatians 5:1) Protestant Evangelicalism Returning To Religious Slavery Today Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren, who announces with trumpets humbly shares in his Twitter bio that he’s, “Champion of planters/pastors/worship ldrs. […]