Category: Current Issues

PRAGMATISM: MODERNISM RECYCLED »

Is Pragmatism Really a Serious Threat? I am convinced that pragmatism poses precisely the same subtle threat to the church in our age that modernism represented nearly a century ago. Modernism was a movement that embraced higher criticism and liberal theology while denying nearly all the supernatural aspects of Christianity. But modernism did not first […]

NOW JOEL OSTEEN SAYS MORMONISM ITSELF IS CHRISTIAN »

Apprising Ministries often functions spiritually as a kind of Reconnaissance, Surveillance, and Target Acquisition( RSTA) unit along the Internet Front of this Truth War. I pointed out during my appearance Tonight Matters With Ken Silva Of Apprising Ministries that the Net is moving 6 months to a year ahead of the main of the Christian community. With this […]

THE MIXED LEGACY OF CHARLES COLSON »

By Christian Research Network Associate Editor Erin Benziger of Do Not Be Surprised… This is a repost of an original article on Do Not Be Surprised… With the passing of Charles Colson on 21 April 2012, obituaries and remembrances of him appear to fall into one of two categories. The mainstream media seems content to focus on […]

THE "JESUS" OF MORMONISM A LA GLENN BECK »

Being an online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries does not involve itself in politics per se; however, there are times when those issues will cross, as is the case with popular conservative talk show host Glenn Beck. Lately it’s becoming more apparent that Beck, who is a baptized member in good standing with the non-Christian […]

CHRISTIAN, YOU ARE KNOWN BY NAME »

Thus the LORD used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses turned again into the camp, his assistant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent. Moses said to the LORD, “See, you say to me, ‘Bring up this people,’ […]

ANYONE WHO THINKS MORMON CHURCH MOVING TOWARD ORTHODOXY MISINFORMED »

[I]t was just in October 2010 when two Mormon leaders  felt it was necessary to expound on an old sermon, point by point, by Mormonism’s thirteenth President Ezra Taft Benson called “The Fourteen Fundamentals in Following the Prophet.” In this message, Benson reminded his audience that the Mormon prophet “is the only man who speaks […]

THE AVERAGE EVANGELICAL »

See also: EMERGING ECUMENICAL EVANGELEPHANTS AND THE WORD FAITH MOVEMENT VODDIE BAUCHAM, WHO TURNED DOWN AN ER2 INVITE, SPEAKS OUT ON THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM EVANGELEPHANT

WRETCHED: GLENN-VANGELICALS? SHOULD CHRISTIANS PARTNER WITH GLENN BECK? »

HT: Discern The Time See also: WHAT’S UP WITH LIBERTY UNIVERSITY MORMONISM DECLARED WAR ON CHRISTIANITY THE gOD OF GLENN BECK

SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION'S RICHARD LAND IN CONTROVERSY »

Unfortunately, spiritual darkness grows and so Apprising Ministries continues monitoring the apostasy metastasizing within mainstream evangelicalism for theChristian Research Network. While this is going on I’m watching a sickening syncretism that seems to be spreading through increasing charismania and corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM). Pietism inherent in the CSM of Foster-Willardism is causing people to jettison the proper Christian spirituality of sola Scriptura in place […]

GABE LYONS, Q AND "RESTORING CULTURES" »

By Christian Research Network Associate Editor Erin Benziger of Do Not Be Surprised… This is a repost of an original article on Do Not Be Surprised… In mid-April, while many Christians earnestly scanned the Twitter stream and their favorite blogs for soundbites and one-liners from the Together for the Gospel (T4G) conference, another gathering was taking place several cities […]

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