The following by Dr. Gary Gilley, pastor of Southern View Chapel, is republished at Apprising Ministries with permission: Modern Christian Mysticism Medieval mysticism has managed to survive within small pockets of Roman Catholicism for centuries but has gone largely unnoticed by evangelicals. It is true that a few groups, such as the Quakers, have always […]

The following by Dr. Gary Gilley, pastor of Southern View Chapel, is republished at Apprising Ministries with permission: Mysticism, a Way of the Past, the Wave of the Future I am often asked what I see as the next important challenge facing evangelical Christianity. Such questions are asked in the wake of major movements that […]

Apprising Ministries is a online apologetics and discernment labor in the Lord and part of my commission as pastor-teacher is to help make you aware of trends within the church visible. I wish I had better news but as I survey the horizon I see a tsunami of apostasy on the way; in large part […]

…but they mixed with the nations and learned to do as they did. (Psalm 106:35) Via Contemplativa—Drink Up Deception At Apprising Ministries you will have heard me talking more and more about the new spirituality which has now slithered its way deep into mainstream evangelicalism from its den in the neo-liberal cult of the Emerging Church. The fact is […]

As I urged you when I was going to Macedonia, remain at Ephesus so that you may charge certain persons not to teach any different doctrine, nor to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies, which promote speculations rather than the stewardship from God that is by faith. The aim of our charge is love […]

Apprising Ministries has long been covering the rise of the sinfully ecumenical Emerging Church; now a full blown cult operating within mainstream evangelicalism with its new form of postmodern liberal theology, a Liberalism 2.0 which Emergent Church guru Brian McLaren begins laying out in his latest book A New Kind of Christianity. You may recall that in The Emerging Church Transform East Coast Apostasia-Palooza I told […]

Apprising Ministries has always been thankful for the kindness extended by Bud Press of the fine apologetics and discernment ministry Christian Research Service in his helping to open doors when this labor in the Lord went online in late August of 2005. As I pointed out in Compromise: The Church Must Change the Druckerite-driven emerging Ecumenical Church Of Deceit is lusting […]

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the Truth, and shall be turned unto fables. (2 Timothy 4:3-4, KJV) An Evangelicalism The World Can Likes There’s a few things I […]

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, 4and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. (2 Timothy 4:3-4, ESV) It’s Happening Now At An Unprecedented Rate This online apologetics and […]

 Apprising Ministries brings to your attention Frank Viola, whose “official website” informs us is: a Christian author and speaker. His public speaking covers a wide range of topics including the all-sufficiency of Jesus Christ, the deepening of the spiritual life, Christian community, church planting, God’s eternal purpose, mission, and church restoration. (Online source) You should also […]