I give you this instruction in keeping with the prophecies once made about you, so that by following them you may fight the good fight, holding on to faith and a good conscience. Some have rejected these and so have shipwrecked their faith. (1 Timothy 1:18-19) Turning The Faith Into Mythology Recently in Shane Hipps […]

The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired [Jesus] that He would show them a sign from heaven. He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red. And in the morning, It will be foul weather today: for the sky […]

Over at MMI Todd Rhodes tells us, apparently using hyperbole, that: I saw a small announcement on the Mars Hill website, but saw nothing on Shane’s current church website.  The discernment ministries websites are all abuzz over this move; but it seems that no one else either 1.  cares; 2.  knows about it; or 3. cares. […]

They are full of superstitions from the East; they practice divination like the Philistines and clasp hands with pagans. (Isaiah 2:6) Wannbe Gurus Galore Apprising Ministries sounds the warning again, along with Lighthouse Trails Research, about increasing inroads of corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) ala Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster—and his spiritual twin Dallas Willard—who are spreading this spurious Spiritual Formation (SF). […]

Holding fast the faithful word which is in accordance with the teaching, so that he will be able both to exhort in sound doctrine and to refute those who contradict. (Titus 1:9, NASB) Can Two Walk Together, Except They Be Agreed? Apprising Ministries has brought to your attention the recently concluded Christianity 21 (C 21) […]

Then they said to the king, “Daniel, who is one of the exiles from Judah, pays no attention to you, O king, or to the decree you put in writing. He still prays three times a day.” (Daniel 6:13) Following Jesus Away FromThe World In articles here at Apprising Ministries such as Contemplative Spirituality Growing […]

We are blessed that the Lord chose to place Apprising Ministries among the leading labors against the egregiously ecumenical Emerging Church aka Emergent Church de-formation of the Christian faith—now morphing into Emergence Christianity (EC), which is a cult of a postliberalism swallowing up more and more of mainstream apostatizing evangelicalism—a Liberalism 2.0 as it were. Now with this in mind AM is […]

Can two walk together, except they be agreed? (Amos 3:3, KJV) Peas In A Corrupt Spiritual Pod The following announcement concerning Shane Hipps comes from The Weekly from Mars Hill Bible Church where Rob Bell, an icon in the egregiously ecumenical Emerging Church aka Emergent Church de-formation of the Christian faith—now morphing into Emergence Christianity, is “teaching pastor”: The […]

This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil. For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But he who practices the truth […]

Here in C?21, JOPA, and the Love of God my friend John Chisham, pastor of River of Life Alliance Church and fellow Christian Research Net contributor shares a few interesting exchanges he’s had with heretical quasi-universalist “pastor” Doug Pagitt. As a reader of Apprising Ministries you should know that Pagitt, along with his equally heretical “theologian in residence” Tony Jones, […]