The following by Dr. Gary Gilley, pastor of Southern View Chapel, is republished at Apprising Ministries with permission: Rome Sweet Rome by Scott & Kimberly Hahn Born Fundamentalist, Born Again Catholic, by David B. Currie In recent years we have witnessed a softening perspective of the vast disagreement between the Roman Catholic Church and evangelicalism.  […]

Despite sagging funding Apprising Ministries continues covering the falling away of the largely pretending to be Protestant evangelical community. As I just reminded you again in “Inward Journey” Taught By Mystics Like Richard Foster Is Divination, a major reason why is the infestation of Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) ala gurus Dallas Willard and his spiritual twin Living Spiritual Teacher […]

In earlier Apprising Ministries articles like and Christian Soldiers Standing Up For Jesus? and the semi-satirical Recipe For Spiritual Disaster I’ve been trying to bring to your attention how a Rodney King theology of, “Can’t we all just get along” is serving to cripple the witness of the church visible. A major factor contributing to this is […]

Apprising Ministries told you in SBC Lifeway Youth Camp Pastor Sam Nuckolls Arrested For Video Peeping that the traveling evangelist had been arrested on charges of video peeping. It’s alleged that while staying as a guest in their home Sam Nuckolls used a pen with a hidden camera in it in order to record the wife in the shower. As I also pointed […]

For my strength is made perfect in weakness. (2 Corinthians 12:9) A primary qualification for serving God with any amount of success, and for doing God’s work well and triumphantly, is a sense of our own weakness. When God’s warrior marches forth to battle, strong in his own might, when he boasts, “I know that […]

The following by Dr. Gary Gilley, pastor of Southern View Chapel, is republished at Apprising Ministries with permission: In this volume Beasley concurs with the criticism heaped on Rob Bell and his heretical book Love Wins.  But he is justly confused as to why others, particularly C.S. Lewis who taught essentially many of Bell’s errors, […]

HT: Slaughter of the Sheep See also: GOSPEL COALITION CONTRIBUTOR MIKE COSPER DEFENDS RETREAT WITH ROMAN CATHOLICS TIM KELLER AND CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY MARK DRISCOLL AND NEO-REFORMED NEW CALVINIST CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY

Yesterday in the Apprising Ministries piece Thomas Merton And The Gospel Coalition Blog I pointed you to The iPhone as Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Gospel Coalition contributor Mike Cosper, “pastor of worship & arts” at Sojourn Community Church. A major focus of AM is tracking the infection of Counter Reformation spirituality and Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) ala gurus Dallas […]

Apprising Ministries continues documenting the spread of Counter Reformation spirituality and Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) ala gurus Dallas Willard and his spiritual twin Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster spreading within largely pretending to be Protestant evangelicalism. By all accounts apostate Roman Catholic mystic monk Thomas Merton (1915-1968) is a superstar of CSM, particularly the practice and teaching of its crown jewel, […]

Demonstrating the proper way for the congregation to address him from now on, Prophet Führer Craig “Perry” Furtick of Spring Vision Elevator Church reveals how God told him he should be saluted. See also: STEVEN FURTICK, JAMES MACDONALD, AND JOEL OSTEEN GOSPEL COALITION COUNCIL MEMBER JAMES MACDONALD LOVES PERRY NOBLE ERIC DYKSTRA AND THE CROSSING CHURCH