As shocking as that is here at Apprising Ministries, I actually do find a couple of points of agreement with Red Letter Christian and progressive/liberal church historian Diana Butler Bass. In her HuffPost today called Happy National Day of Prayer…Or Is It National Day of Fighting Over Prayer? Bass begins: In the weeks leading up to […]

This online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries has been among those who’ve been reporting on an ill-advised decision by Dr. John Piper to bring Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren into the Desiring God Conference 2010 as the keynote speaker. Unfortunately, it got even worse when Dr. Piper defended his decision; and so, Warrengate is now slowly simmering: At root I think [Rick Warren] is […]

I pray, but there are many understandings about prayer. For many, prayer is talking to God, sometimes a great list of requests and needs—sort of like a child’s Christmas list mailed to Santa Claus. But at least for me, prayer is becoming a time of listening rather than talking. There is so much noise in our […]

Yesterday Skye Jethani, “managing editor of Leadership journal,” tells us about an upcoming conversation concerning ”The Future of the Global Church.” He begins: the church faces a new age of globalization, and a demographic shift toward the Southern hemisphere, what will it mean for the role of American churches and leaders? That subject and many others will be the […]

Apprising Ministries points you to yesterday’s Crosstalk radio program with host Ingrid Schlueter and her guest Sarah Leslie. The Crosstalk website tells us: Sarah Leslie is an author and researcher, a member of the board of directors of Discernment Ministries and also a member of the Discernment Research Group. In response to the May Day event […]

A religion which is all excitement, and has little instruction in it, may serve for transient use; but for permanent life-purposes there must be a knowledge of those great doctrines which are fundamental to the gospel system. I tremble when I hear of a man’s giving up, one by one, the vital principles of the gospel […]

And for once the online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries isn’t involved as “Liberty’s Ergun Caner accused of false statements in his testimony about converting from Islam.” Today according to a web-only report by John Kennedy for Christianity Today we’re told: Liberty University’s board of directors has declined to take public action against Ergun Caner, president […]

This online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries has been among those who’ve been reporting on an ill-advised decision by Dr. John Piper to bring Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren into the Desiring God Conference 2010 as the keynote speaker. And so, Warrengate is now slowly simmering because, unfortunately, it got even worse when Dr. Piper defended his decision: At root I think [Rick […]

That’s the headline from the report I cite from the pro-gay website Truth Wins Out: I’m sure this will surprise no one who’s involved in the country music world, as country music is much like Christian music, in that it’s full of closeted gay people.  But many country fans may be surprised to find out that […]

Today in David Spangler, Leonard Sweet, And Quantum Spirituality here at Apprising Ministries I reminded you of a recent question I raised here: Is Emerging Church Theologian Leonard Sweet Speaking At Calvary Chapel Of Albuquerque Or Not? As I said, just today I received another email from that church concerning this fuzzy picture but still nothing definitive has been […]