Apprising Ministries brings to your attention an article by Brett McCracken called The Perils of ‘Wannabe Cool’ Christianity, which appeared online yesterday at The Wall Street Journal. If you didn’t know, the title of this piece is a play off the title of McCracken’s just published book Hipster Christianity: Where Church and Cool Collide. His book bio tells us that his […]

The online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries has told you that apostatizing pretending to be Protestant evangelicalism is paying a heavy price for its foolish embrace of the sinfully ecumenial Emerging Church aka Emergent Church—which has grown into a full-blown neo-liberal cult operating within its walls; and what we’re now dealing with is an upgraded Emerging Church 2.0 complete with its new version […]

Is Benny Hinn A Patron of the Arts? An inquiring mind wanted to know by Bud Press, Director Christian Research Service August 13, 2010 The August 2, 2010 edition of the NATIONAL ENQUIRER hit the newsstands on July 23, and featured a two-page article on an alleged “Torrid Affair” between American televangelists Benny Hinn and Paula White. […]

The online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries, which extends as an outreach of the local church where I’m pastor—SBC (for now)—has long been critical of the Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren. In addition to his twisting of the Bible as if it’s his personal piece of Play-Doh, as a former Roman Catholic, I am personally offended by his double-minded […]

…is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. (James 1:8) Rick Warren’s “Now You See It; Now You Don’t” Teaching Style Apprising Ministries has been among the online apologetics and discernment ministries who brought to your attention an ill-advised decision by Dr. John Piper to bring Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren into the Desiring God Conference 2010 as the keynote speaker. Standard […]

Apprising Ministries continues covering the sad saga of Anne Rice because it’s also an indicator of evangelicalism, in very much the same way as gay affirming “pastor” Jay Bakker Reflects The Sad Condition Of The Visible Church. In addition, as I said in Anne Rice In Apostasy,  if she would drop this and move, then I wouldn’t […]

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, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. (2 Timothy 4:3-4) Gathering Their Teachers For the past 5+ years now Apprising Ministries has closely monitored the sinfully […]

 The online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries has been among those who’ve been reporting on an ill-advised decision by Dr. John Piper to bring Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren into the Desiring God Conference 2010 as the keynote speaker. Unfortunately, it got even worse when Dr. Piper defended his decision; and so, Warrengate is still slowly simmering:  At root I think [Rick Warren] is […]

 Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons. (1 Timothy 4:1) Demons Do Have Doctrines and One Of Them Is So-Called Great “Human Potential” As an example of what I mean in the title of this semi-reductio Apprising Ministries piece, here’s […]

*UPDATE* See JACK HAYFORD TO REMARRY WF HERETIC BENNY HINN TO EX-WIFE After a report of an alleged affair between top level Word Faith heretics Benny Hinn and Paula White surfaced in The National Enquirer, in posts such as Paula White: Is She, Or Isn’t She? and Benny Hinn And Paula White Side By Side here at Apprising […]