The following look at The Dangers of Spiritual Formation and Spiritual Disciplines is taken from a review by Bob DeWaay, pastor of  Twin City Fellowship, of the book The Spirit of the Disciplines by Dallas Willard: The spiritual disciplines that are supposedly necessary for spiritual formation are not defined in the Bible. If they were, there would […]

Apprising Ministries has told you that Samir Selmanovic has served as a member of the Coordinating Group for Emergent Village of the egregiously ecumenical Emerging Church aka Emergent Church—morphing into Emergence Christianity (EC)—which is a cult of postliberalism now firmly within mainstream evangelicalism. Selmanovic was also a contributing author to An Emergent Manifesto of Hope (AEMoH)—which was edited by the […]

For people will be lovers of self. (2 Timothy 3:2, ESV) Interlocking Circles Centered On Self With limited manpower, being that I am but one man, I do what I can here at Apprising Ministries to uncover disturbing trends within the mainstream of the evangelical community of the church visible. Primarily, as a former Roman Catholic, I focus on […]

The reigning school of American theologians has progressed from bad to worse. We only have to deal with Harry Emerson Fosdick in the 1920s; but then, it accelerated to Edwin Lewis, Nels F.S. Ferre, Reinhold Niebuhr, and on from Niebuhr to Paul Tillich, and crowned in Rudolph Bultmann. Not one single one of those men […]

Apprising Ministries has pointed out that Perry Noble, Senior Pastor of NewSpring Church in South Carolina, is one of the allegedly infallible Purpose Driven/Seeker Driven Popes Of The Carolinas along with Steven Furtick. In the March 3, 2009 post Thr3e at his blog Noble tells us: Pastor Steven Furtick is one of my best friends on the planet…and so when I […]

Before every bed-time story sermon Joel Osteen continues the tradition begun by John Osteen, his late father and fellow Word Faith prosperity gospel preacher. Based upon their belief in the erroneous “positive confession” teaching Osteen has his followers confess concerning the Bible.  Their mistaken idea is when people confess positive things they are speaking “faith-filled […]

Our friend Joel Taylor of 5 pt. Salt tells us: 5ptsalt.com recently reported in this post how purpose-driven Carolina pope and Rick Warren underling Perry Noble and his NewSpring Church had basically tried to ruin the life of Dr. James Duncan, and we pointed you to his site for a very detailed explanation. In case […]

Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren has actually been pushing the door open for corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) ala Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster—and his spiritual twin Dallas Willard—within the mainstream of evangelicalism for quite some time now. That Rick Warren Is Now Openly Promoting Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism is as clear as crystal as you can see in Rick Warren […]

For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools. (Romans 1:21-22, NASB) Evangelicalism Cutting Loose The Anchor Of God’s Word The quote following below concerning the authority of the Bible comes […]

This Apprising Ministries post is a short follow-up to Perry Noble Repent and an update concerning the sad issue detailed by Dr. James Duncan in Holy rage at the ‘Spring over at his Pajama Pages blog. And as I pointed out previously you can learn all the pertinent details in Dr. James Duncan On Pirate Christian Radio To Discuss Issue With […]