The following look at The Dangers of Spiritual Formation and Spiritual Disciplines is taken from a review by Bob DeWaay, pastor of  Twin City Fellowship, of the book The Spirit of the Disciplines by Dallas Willard: The spiritual disciplines that are supposedly necessary for spiritual formation are not defined in the Bible. If they were, there would […]

For people will be lovers of self. (2 Timothy 3:2, ESV) Interlocking Circles Centered On Self With limited manpower, being that I am but one man, I do what I can here at Apprising Ministries to uncover disturbing trends within the mainstream of the evangelical community of the church visible. Primarily, as a former Roman Catholic, I focus on […]

Before every bed-time story sermon Joel Osteen continues the tradition begun by John Osteen, his late father and fellow Word Faith prosperity gospel preacher. Based upon their belief in the erroneous “positive confession” teaching Osteen has his followers confess concerning the Bible.  Their mistaken idea is when people confess positive things they are speaking “faith-filled […]

Our friend Joel Taylor of 5 pt. Salt tells us: 5ptsalt.com recently reported in this post how purpose-driven Carolina pope and Rick Warren underling Perry Noble and his NewSpring Church had basically tried to ruin the life of Dr. James Duncan, and we pointed you to his site for a very detailed explanation. In case […]

For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools. (Romans 1:21-22, NASB) Evangelicalism Cutting Loose The Anchor Of God’s Word The quote following below concerning the authority of the Bible comes […]

Apprising Ministries reminded you again the other day that Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren has actually been pushing the door open for corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) ala Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster—and his spiritual twin Dallas Willard—within the mainstream of evangelicalism for quite some time now. For example in Southern Baptist Pastor Rick Warren And Saddleback Church Openly Recommend […]

Apparently it’s a slow day in the world of the egregiously ecumenical Emerging Church aka Emergent Church—morphing into Emergence Christianity (EC)—which is a cult of postliberalism now within mainstream evangelicalism. And continuing with Dr. Walter Martin On Apostasy Circa 1985, it happens to be my view that this EC Liberalism 2.0—as direct descendants of what the late cult expert called the Cult of […]

Here in this short post at Apprising Ministries I bring to your attention a very grave problem now affecting the mainstream of the church visible today. And that would be a huge misunderstanding concerning the nature of the spiritual warfare, which every genuine Christian is immediately thrust into the moment they are first regenerated by God the Holy Spirit. In the last couple of […]

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You must not do as they do in Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. Do not follow their practices. (Leviticus 18:3) Too Far Out For Us To Even Get A Radar Fix The other day in Rick Warren […]