The following by Dr. Gary Gilley, pastor of Southern View Chapel, is republished at Apprising Ministries with permission: With such interpretations swirling around Piper’s teachings I was most happy to discover his book When I Don’t Desire God, How to Fight for Joy. The title implies that Piper would carefully address one of the thorniest […]

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? (1 Corinthians 5:6) A Lump Of Mystic Leaven Is Rising Apprising Ministries picks up where we left off in Rick Warren Saddleback Church, And Spiritual Disciplines, which began in Steve Gladen, Saddleback Church Small Groups, And Quaker Mystic Spirituality, where I […]

“Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few. Beware of false prophets, who come to […]

Apprising Ministries correspondent Christine Pack of Sola Sisters shows you, again, in her post Saddleback Promotes “Christianized” Mantra Meditation what I first showed you e.g. in Southern Baptist Pastor Rick Warren And Saddleback Church Openly Recommend Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism. Here we’ll see another example of it with Steve Gladen, who’s “now the Pastor of Small Groups at [the] Saddleback Church” [1] of Purpose […]

By Apprising Ministries correspondent Christine Pack of Sola Sisters Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church website features two books by Quaker and mystic Richard Foster, today’s leading proponent of something known as “Spiritual Disciplines” or “Spiritual Formation.”  Also promoted are several other books focusing on the Spiritual Disciplines, which teach a practice that is nothing more than a “Christianized” version […]

The online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries has been covering the rise of the sinfully ecumenical neo-liberal cult of the Emerging Church within mainstream squishy evanjellyfish.  As I explained in Emergent Church: A Diseased Tree the discernment ministry Herescope has some excellent articles that uncover the real truth about the actual beginnings of the Emergent Church through Leadership […]

By Apprising Ministries correspondent Chrystal Whitt of Slaughter of the Sheep The heretical New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) has been gaining steam, and the movers and shakers want to take over the world through their seven mountain, or seven spheres, of influence.  When we watch people like Rick Joyner in action, we may be tempted to believe he is just […]

Just a short note asking for prayer, particularly if you’ve been blessed by this online apologetics and discernment work, and making you aware that the hard drive in the main computer at here at Apprising Ministries has crashed. Fortunately back problems had forced me to do much of my work from a laptop so the loss […]

See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ. (Colossians 2:8, ESV) Postmodern Word Games Apprising Ministries is an online apologetics and discernment work specializing in analyzing current trends in the visible church apprising […]

And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the LORD. And behold, at the entrance of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs to the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east, worshiping the sun toward the […]