Category: AM Missives

COMPROMISE: THE CHURCH MUST CHANGE »

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the Truth, and shall be turned unto fables. (2 Timothy 4:3-4, KJV) An Evangelicalism The World Can Likes There’s a few things I […]

LEONARD SWEET, FRANK VIOLA, AND MYSTIC MEISTER ECKHART »

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, 4and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. (2 Timothy 4:3-4, ESV) It’s Happening Now At An Unprecedented Rate This online apologetics and […]

ROB BELL, CHRISTIANITY TODAY, TWITTER, AND THE GOSPEL?! »

Apprising Ministries is pleased to draw your attention to a post by pastor Rob Willmann, my fellow Christian Research Network contributor, called Rob Bell, Christianity Today, Twitter, and the Gospel?! Pastor Willmann explains: There’s a video I did a while back on Rob Bell (it’s at the end of the article). In particular, the video […]

POSTMODERNISM IS SINFUL AND NOT COMPATABLE WITH CHRISTIANITY »

Sanctify them in the truth; Your word is truth. (John 17:17, NASB) What Is True Remains True Whether It’s Believed Or Not Here below are a couple of common questions you will run into with people who’ve bought into the false philosophy of postmodernism e.g. the neo-liberal cult of Emerging Church and their objection to the concept of fixed, […]

MARK DRISCOLL AND NEO-REFORMED NEW CALVINIST CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY »

For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. (Galatians 5:1) Creating Your Own Way To Worship God Apprising Ministries has shared some concern about this New Calvinism as expressed e.g. by Matt Chandler and particularly Mark Driscoll, founder of Acts 29 Network, in recent posts such as […]

SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINES ACCORDING TO MARTIN LUTHER »

…they are full of things from the east and of fortune-tellers like the Philistines, and they strike hands with the children of foreigners. (Isaiah 2:6, ESV) Neo-Reformed Contemplative Spirituality? In recent posts such as Acts 29 Network And Reformed Counter Reformation Spirituality? and Acts 29 Pastor Matt Chandler On Being A Reformed Charismatic here at Apprising Ministries I’ve shared some concern […]

ROB BELL AND SHANE HIPPS »

Apprising Ministries points you to the below tweet from Rob Bell, the rock star pastor of the neo-liberal cult of the Emerging Church, and its new version of Progressive Christianity aka Emergence Christianity. It concerns his friend and co-teaching pastor Shane Hipps:   (Online source) In the coming days, when the tsunami of apostasy headed toward mainstream evangelicalism finally hits, the […]

ACTS 29 NETWORK AND REFORMED COUNTER REFORMATION SPIRITUALITY? »

Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so. (Acts 17:11, ESV) Could A New Postmodern Form Of Calvinism Be Emerging? In a little bit of a follow-up to Acts 29 Pastor Matt Chandler On Being […]

GAY CHRISTIAN RAY BOLTZ: “I DON’T BELIEVE GOD HATES ME ANYMORE” »

Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted. Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. (Galatians 6:1-2, ESV)  It’s Not Loving To Withhold Truth Todd Rhodes, a staff member of Leadership Network, put […]

PASTOR LARRY DEBRUYN: DISCERNING "X-MEN" »

by Pastor Larry DeBruyn Marked for life: discernment ministry in light of Ezekiel 9:1-11. Someone once said that sin is as much breaking God’s heart as it is His Law. When God looked down on the perversity of the people on earth before the Deluge, it was recorded that He “was grieved in His heart” […]

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