It’s always interesting how the Lord works. I’d been feeling led to discuss the issue of how, right now, belief concerning Who Jesus actually is has all but been pushed to the side for the sake of unity in the visible Christian church. But then I started thinking that it’s even kind of silly to have to bring it up at all; until I […]

Shane Hipps is the new co-teaching pastor along with the Emerging Church rock star Rob Bell at the highly influential Mars Hill Bible Church. Just the same as his close friend Bell we know that Hipps is also a mystic who rejects Sola Scriptura in place of practicing highly subjective Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM).  The section below is from Hipps’ sermon A Gentle Stillness , which […]

Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons. (1 Timothy 4:1, ESV) There’s Nothing New Here Under The Sun This Apprising Ministries piece comes about because of a post today from Cambourne Christian Fellowship called (One of) The Poisonous […]

Apprising Ministries brought to your attention a while back that  Shane Hipps is the new co-teaching pastor now along with his good friend, and Emerging Church (EC) icon Rob Bell, at Mars Hill Bible Church in Grand Rapids, MI. as I pointed out in Silence Shane Hipps, both having a Masters Degree from Fuller Theological Cesspool, which vomited forth the semi-pelagian (at best) Church Growth […]

Jim Trageser of North Country Times begins his February 5, 2010 piece Popular author McLaren to address local Episcopal conference by asking “What is an evangelical leader doing talking to a bunch of Episcopalians at a Methodist church?” Well, only in the postmodern world of Humpty Dumpty language could Brian McLaren even remotely be considered “an evangelical leader.” But […]

Apprising Ministries showed you yesterday in Brian McLaren Has Moved Away From “Ancient-Future” Faith yet another former supporter of  Emerging Church (EC) leader Brian McLaren recognizing that in his latest book A New Kind of Christianity (ANKoC) McLaren’s clearly layed out his updated version of old liberalism, i.e. a new form of Progressive Christianity. Of this Liberalism 2.0 EC […]

Apprising Ministries has told you about Purpose Driven/Seeker Driven Popes Of TheCarolinas like Perry Noble and his disciple Steven Furtick, who are the next generation fruit of Leadership Network’s propped-up Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren. As a matter of fact Noble has really come of age now after being a featured speaker for his mentor Rick Warren at his […]

The incredible lack of spiritual maturity in the current visible church has resulted in a corresponding lack of spiritual depth, i.e. biblical ignorance. Couple this with post-modern relativistic nonsense and we have the perfect environment for the growth and acceptance of what is biblically unChristian being accepted and declared Christian to the point that men […]

You may be aware that the online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries extends from CRBC, the local church where I am pastor. It is aligned (for now) with the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). This is one of the reasons I have watched with sadness the drift of SBC megapastor Ed Young, Jr; who happens to […]

So says John H. Armstrong, president of ACT 3, in his blog post today Whither Brian McLaren? This is not to be seen as an endorsement of Armstrong by Apprising Ministries; but rather, I draw your attention to this piece from Armstrong because he tells us: I started reading Brian when his first book came out years ago. On […]