Looks like Apprising Ministries hit some kind of nerve here with Christian Band Family Force 5 On How To Become A Christian concerning the “Christian crunk rock band” Family Force 5. I received a bit of email, and with the permission of the authors, as a pastor I feel led to share with you the ones below, […]

But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many! Again, the gift of God is not like the result of […]

The Center for Action and Contemplation (CAC) wants you to mark March 20-22, 2009 on our calendars for the CAC sponsored Conversations, Convergence and Action (CCA). The CAC website encourages us: Come to the first large gathering of Roman Catholic, Mainline Protestant, Evangelical, and other Christians seeking to explore this emergence and convergence together. You’ll […]

If you still think that this reimagined and repainted inclusive squishy social gospel of good deeds preached by postliberals like Rob Bell is something new; you’d better think again. Here’s J. Gresham Machen from his book Christianity & Liberalism written in 1923:  But if Christianity be directed toward another world; if it be a way […]

But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of godliness, although they […]

 No, it’s not a new rock band; um, athough he does like to teach people to party in God on his “Drunken Glory Tours”: John Crowder and Benjamin Dunn travel the world on a continual Love Feast known as the Drunken Glory Tour. This collaborative “party ministry” is setting thousands free around the globe as we boast […]

Unfortunately with no shortage of timid fellows in evangelical leadership positions today women like Ingrid Schlueter are really left with little choice than to continue to be “more man” than these other men. At Slice of Laodicea she tells it like it is regarding the Zondervan National Pastors Conference 2009. For example this year’s festival […]

Let us be perfectly clear here at Apprising Ministries; the idea of a deeper relationship with God is not wrong in and of itself. But it is the Lord Who draws us; we cannot “work” it up. And as I brought out in The Terminology Trap of “Spiritual Formation” what’s causing such a huge problem in the Body […]

The message you’ll see below from Billy Graham is supposedly consistent with the one preached by Jesus Christ and His Apostles. Apparently this is what Acts 17:6 tells us was the teaching that upset the world and would get Christ crucified and each of His Apostles, save John, killed. Below is a clip from an appearance by Billy Graham on Robert Schuller’s […]

[Jeshurun] abandoned the God who made him and rejected the Rock his Savior. They made him jealous with their foreign gods and angered him with their detestable idols. They sacrificed to demons, which are not God (Deuteronomy 32:15-17). Worshiping God The Way They Want God To Be As Apprising Ministries has been pointing out recently e.g. Phyllis Tickle […]