Last night Ken Silva of Apprising Ministries was again invited to appear on the Iron Sharpens Iron radio program hosted by Chris Arnzen. The topic concerned Perry Noble, lead vocalist pastor of NewSpring Church who says that the Christian who wants to go deeper into God’s Word is a “jackass.” In a video clip, which you can […]

Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour. They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But […]

As you can see in previous Apprising Ministries articles such as Rick Warren And Saddleback Church: Prayer Is Not For The Novice and Saddleback Church Pastors Using Rob Bell Teachings and Southern Baptist Pastor Rick Warren And Saddleback Church Openly Recommend Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren has actually been doing so for quite some time now. Why […]

Perry Noble, lead vocalist pastor of NewSpring Church, says that the Christian who wants to go deeper into God’s Word is a “jackass.” He also quotes John Maxwell telling us the following pietistic foolishness that supposedly “most Christians are educated way beyond their level of obedience anyway.” In Hip Pastor Blasts Those Who Want To Go Deeper […]

Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. (Ephesians 6:11-12) Prince […]

Within a source paper called Spiritual Disciplines: Pathway to Christian Maturity (SDPCM), from the Georgia Baptist Convention (SBC), we learn what is now considered consistent with a proper Protestant approach to spirituality for Christians in the Southern Baptist Convention. Continuing along the lines of Richard Foster Forming Protestant Southern Baptist Convention Spirituality here Apprising Ministries begins with the following from Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker […]

In a very interesting, and timely post today at Pyromaniacs, Phil Johnson places some excerpts “from an editorial Charles Spurgeon published in The Sword and the Trowel in 1871, more than a decade before the famous Downgrade Controversy.” If you don’t know, this was Spurgeon’s dealing with what the late cult expert Dr. Walter Martin […]

You may recall Apprising Ministries carried a post by my good friend and CRN correspondent Stephen Macasil called Perry Noble And NewSpring Church Attempt To Silence Their Critic: Dr. James Duncan. Therein Macasil informs us: Dr. James Duncan, Associate Professor of Communication at Anderson University, has written “Holy Rage at the ‘Spring,” a detailed account […]

The goal of this command is love, which comes from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. Some have wandered away from these and turned to meaningless talk. They want to be teachers of the law, but they do not know what they are talking about or what they so confidently […]

What follows is an important post from Stephen Macasil that orginally appears at Christian Research Network, which extends from Apprising Ministries. Macasil writes: Dr. James Duncan, Associate Professor of Communication at Anderson University, has written “Holy Rage at the ‘Spring,” a detailed account of his recent experience with NewSpring Church (Perry Noble’s church). Some of […]