Category: AM Missives

WARRENGATE AND THE OPENING OF THE`CHURCH OF BASEBALL' »

Take me out to the church house, Take me out with the saints; Buy me some crackers and “communion” wine, I don’t care if I never get back. Let me root, root, root for the Lord’s team, If they don’t win, it’s a shame. For it’s one, two, three strikes, you’re out, At the old church house. Gotta get […]

JOHN PIPER, RICK WARREN AND RICK WARREN »

The online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries continues to keep you updated on Warrengate since Dr. John Piper suffered a lapse in judgment by inviting Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren to be a keynote speaker at the Desiring God Conference 2010. Frank Turk’s snark aside, not everyone gets it. In his Coming Soon – The John Piper And Rick Warren […]

WARRENGATE: DR. JAMES WHITE ON JOHN PIPER AND RICK WARREN »

Unfortunately well-respected evangelical pastor Dr. John Piper exhibited a real error in judgment by inviting Dr. Rick Warren who, because of bullying tactics so often used in hostile Purpose Driven Church takeovers I refer to as The Purpose Driven Pope [1], to be the keynote speaker at the Desiring God Conference 2010. This is now slowly opening up a bit of a Warrengate across the blogosphere as more and  […]

DIANA BUTLER BASS ON CHRIS ROSEBROUGH, INGRID SCHLUETER, AND KEN SILVA IN SIN »

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! (Isaiah 5:20, ESV) Tolerance But For Their Own Beliefs As one who is a pastor-teacher I’m presenting this piece here at the online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries for your […]

THE COALESCING OF THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT WITH APOSTOLIC DOMINIONISM »

A main function of the online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries is to alert you to developing trends within the visible church. For example, I’ve been showing you the shift within the Emergent Church to the new kind of progressive/liberal Christianity that Emerging Church guru Brian McLaren has begun to lay out systematically in his latest book A New […]

RICK WARREN AND JOHN PIPER WARRENGATE REVISITED »

Apprising Ministries has been keeping you apprised concerning the invitation from Dr. John Piper to Rick Warren asking him to be a keynote speaker at the Desiring God Conference 2010, which has opened up a bit of a Warrengate across the blogosphere. Today Justin Taylor offers The Piper-Warren Connection Revisited over at his Between Two Worlds for The Gospel Coalition. In his post Taylor points us […]

BRIAN MCLAREN DOESN’T WANT TO HURT ANYBODY? »

If you didn’t know, Dr. Denny Burk is the Dean of Boyce College and Associate Professor of New Testament at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY. And today Dr. Burk hits the target dead-on concerning the new kind of progressive/liberal Christianity that Emerging Church guru Brian McLaren has now begun laying it out systematically in his latest book […]

WARRENGATE, JOHN PIPER, AND THE NEW CALVINISM »

Apprising Ministries has been keeping you updated on Warrengate, which has begun because Dr. John Piper suffered a lapse in judgment by inviting Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren to be a keynote speaker at the Desiring God Conference 2010. Yesterday I pointed you to a couple of radio programs featuring two godly men very much up on the issues involved […]

THE PROGRESSIVE RESURRECTION OF ROB BELL »

Apprising Ministries has long been covering the drift of Rob Bell, the rock star Elvis of the Emerging Church with its new version of Progressive Christianity aka Emergence Christianity. And in pieces like Through Rob Bell “The Great Enlightened Ones” Tell Us Man Has Divine Greatness and Rob Bell And Shane Hipps Teaching Mysticism I’ve clearly documented his fall into […]

BRIAN MCLAREN SPREADING DIVISION IN THE CHURCH »

In prior pieces such as Samir Selmanovic: God Is Father Of All Religion and Samir Selmanovic And Being Unable To Follow Jesus Without Islam here at Apprising Ministries I’ve introduced you  Samir Selamnovic, an up-and-coming ear-tickler within sinfully ecumenical Emerging Church circles. In fact, in Richard Rohr And The Emerging Church As The Third Way I showed you that Selmanovic […]

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