Yesterday Emerging Church evangelical theologian Leonard Sweet tweeted:  “Go tell your friends what great things the Lord has done for you” (Mark 5:19). The “good news” is about “great things” stories . . . (Online source) No Leonard Sweet, the Gospel is about repentance and the forgiveness of sins in Jesus’ Name; the great thing our Great […]

Pastor Michael Newnham aka Phoenix Preacher is angry that his friend, Emerging Church evangelical theologian Leonard Sweet, was “disinvited” to a conference which is to use a Calvary Chapel church’s facilities. And so he shares the below concerning the online apologetics and discernment works Moriel Minstries, Lighthouse Trails Research and Apprising Ministries: A cursory look at these […]

Apprising Ministries points you to the below tweet from Rob Bell, the rock star pastor of the neo-liberal cult of the Emerging Church, and its new version of Progressive Christianity aka Emergence Christianity. It concerns his friend and co-teaching pastor Shane Hipps:   (Online source) In the coming days, when the tsunami of apostasy headed toward mainstream evangelicalism finally hits, the […]

Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so. (Acts 17:11, ESV) Could A New Postmodern Form Of Calvinism Be Emerging? In a little bit of a follow-up to Acts 29 Pastor Matt Chandler On Being […]

Apprising Ministries points you to the following tweet today from InterVarsity Press: Wondering what it might look like if Jesus made church for those on the outside? http://ow.ly/1PKIy (Online source) The link above goes to something IVP wanted to make sure we saw; it takes us to HollywoodJesus.com and a piece by United Methodist minister Jacob Sahms called What Will It Take To […]

Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted. Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. (Galatians 6:1-2, ESV)  It’s Not Loving To Withhold Truth Todd Rhodes, a staff member of Leadership Network, put […]

Apprising Ministries points you now to something Christian apologist and missionary Sandy Simpson of the fine online apologetics and discernment ministry Deception in the Church was covering back in 2004. As I have said before, Simpson was one of the first to assist me when I first came on the Net in late August of 2005, when […]

by Pastor Larry DeBruyn Marked for life: discernment ministry in light of Ezekiel 9:1-11. Someone once said that sin is as much breaking God’s heart as it is His Law. When God looked down on the perversity of the people on earth before the Deluge, it was recorded that He “was grieved in His heart” […]

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Apprising Ministries points you to a few interesting pieces today, which because of postmodernism and interspirituality seem to intersect the neo-liberal cult of the Emerging Church. First, from the Christian Research Network: Apologist Chris Rosebrough’s must read article “Fascism Reborn” begins: Sixty-seven years ago, the combined blood, treasure and matériel of the free nations of Western Civilization […]