As I have said before here at Apprising Ministries, without a doubt these are strange times we are living in. An era where a warped kind of “tolerance” has actually replaced the type of love that our Lord was so often speaking about. This alleged “postmodern” age is really just a mask for relativism, along […]

A while back Lighting The Way International published some quotes from Dr. Walter Martin’s message called “Neutering the Bible”, which provides the idea behind this feature piece here at Apprising Ministries. Although I never met him Dr. Martin is one whom the Lord used as a teacher to profoundly impact my early studies in apologetics and as such […]

Following are some classic prosperity teachings from Word Faith wolf Dr. John Avanzini: Jesus was handling big money because that treasurer He had was a thief. Now you can’t tell me that a ministry with a treasurer that’s a thief can operate on a few pennies. It took big money to operate that ministry because […]

DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA!    “Jay Bakker, son of disgraced televangelists, preaches in a New York bar,” writes Tony Allen-Mills to begin this piece from The Sunday Times On Line, where he then continues: the son of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, once America’s most popular television evangelists,… Last week pictures of Bakker appeared in a […]

The Lord be praised for His allowing me to join Chris Rosebrough, a friend and fellow contributor at Christian Research Net, on his Fighting For The Faith Podcast where we talked about my labor in the Lord here at Apprising Ministries and other things. Rosebrough, who also has the websites Extreme Theology and A Little Leaven: Museum of […]

Unfortunately I am the one who initially made first Todd Friel of Way of the Master and then later Ingrid Schlueter, and both privately, aware of Ray Comfort being advertised quite prominently as sharing a platform with Word Faith heretics on the website for the recent Inspiring Excellence Conference (IEC) hosted by pastor Robb Thompson. Thompson is a Word Faith properity preacher […]

You will say, “How I hated discipline! How my heart spurned correction! I would not obey my teachers or listen to my instructors.” (Proverbs 5:12-13) Rob’s New Emerging Postliberal Religion Of Tepid Trampolinianity A while back Jennifer Gold and Eric Young filed a report for the Christian Post on Emerging Church icon Rob Bell called […]

They are of the world. Therefore they speak as of the world, and the world hears them. (1 John 4:5, NKJV) Apprising Ministries is pleased to bring you the video clip below about Rob Bell, a very influential pastor in the Emergent Church, where my friend Cameron Buettel shares his thoughts concerning the Bell Nooma […]

Thank you to my good friend Jim Luppachino of Watcher’s Lamp for the following: Chris Arnzen of New York’s Iron Sharpens Iron radio program speaks with Pastor Ken Silva of Apprising Ministries. The topic is the influx Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism into the evangelical camp under the guise of Spiritual Formation through the growing influence of The […]

There are many who obviously are having a problem understanding how Rob Bell severely downplays and all but completely obscures the genuine Gospel of Jesus Christ. So let’s see if we can make this article a bit more direct. Here’s Rob Bell in his book Velvet Elvis: Repainting The Christian Faith (VE): Humans are guilty because of our sin, […]