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ROMAN CATHOLIC APOLOGIST JIMMY AKIN: POSSIBLE TO DIE IN GOD’S FRIENDSHIP EVEN IF ONE DOESN’T CONSCIOUSLY KNOW GOD »

Yes, you read that right. However, this absolute lie is completely consistent with apostate Roman Catholicism. And so Apprising Ministries will now say that anyone who believes this to be consistent with the Bible seriously needs to have their spiritual head examined. A while back over at Beggar’s All we read: Below is a clip of […]

FOR BRIAN MCLAREN AND MARCUS BORG BEING "BORN AGAIN" IS REACHING "ENLIGHTENMENT"? »

In this short piece Apprising Ministries now draws to your attention one of the reasons why the postliberal cult of Emergence Christianity, being championed e.g. by Guru Brian McLaren and the Elvis of Emergence Rob Bell, is actually embracing the world at the expence of the exclusive Gospel of God. Thinking people need to ask themselves: Why are these Emerging leaders working […]

DR. GARY GILLEY REVIEWS FINDING OUR WAY AGAIN: THE RETURN TO THE ANCIENT PRACTICES BY BRIAN MCLAREN »

The following is a book review of Finding Our Way Again: The Return To The Ancient Practices by Dr. Gary Gilley, pastor of Southern View Chapel, and is reprinted here at Apprising Ministries with permission: Brian McLaren, the most recognizable name in the emergent church movement, signals a shift, or at least a new emphasis within emergent, toward ancient practices […]

RICHARD FOSTER AND THE INFLUENCE OF THOMAS MERTON »

You have abandoned your people, the house of Jacob.  They are full of superstitions from the East; they practice divination like the Philistines and clasp hands with pagans. (Isaiah 2:6) Foster Drinks Deeply From The Murky Mystical Well Of Roman Catholic Monk Merton Apprising Ministries continues pointing out that the Contemplative/Centering Prayer, or so-called Christian meditation, of Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) […]

SURVIVING BEATLES UNITE FOR MAGICAL MEDITATION TOUR »

From the Christian Research Net: Well, it’s not a tour exactly; CNN informs us: Former Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr will reunite on stage next month to raise money to teach transcendental meditation to children around the world to “help provide them a quiet haven in a not-so-quiet world,” McCartney said… Profits from the […]

PENAL SUBSTITUTION »

“Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.” (Romans 5:9) In the previous verse we are told that while we were sinners, Christ died for us. When we were sinners at enmity with God and hostile towards him he freely […]

CASEY FRESWICK: "VELVET ELVIS" BY ROB BELL MERGER OF DIALECTIC PHILOSOPHY, LIBERALISM, AND NEO-ORTHODOXY »

Rob Bell’s repainting of false teaching looks like a merger of the dialectic philosophy of Hegel, the liberalism of Rudolph Bultmann and the neo-orthodoxy of Karl Barth. Rob Bell has embraced these and other errors and merged them into postmodernism, an anti-Christian philosophy teaching the impossibility of absolute truth. Both postmodern 21st century philosophy and […]

PERRY NOBLE SOUNDING NOT SO NOBLE »

Perry Noble, Chief Executive Senior Pastor of New Spring, tells us that he’s now repented concerning John Piper: I used to not like John Piper. In fact, I would get angry anytime someone quoted him around men and usually say some stupid, immature remark about the guy… As I look back on my former disliking of Piper I have […]

EMERGENCE CHRISTIANITY REPAINTING THE SOCIAL GOSPEL AND LIBERATION THEOLOGY »

DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA!   “For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.”  (Luke 19:10) The Primary Mission Of The Church Of Jesus Christ Is To Preach God’s Gospel If you are following the issue of the postliberal cult of Emergence Christianity here at Apprising Ministries you will see […]

PLEASE PRAY FOR ME »

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing. (2 Timothy 4:7-8) […]

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