Today Rob Bell, the Elvis of the  egregiously ecumenical Emerging Church aka Emergent Church, which is a cult of postliberalism—now morphing into Emergence Christianity (EC), made it a point to tweet the below:  Yes, yes, yes: http://www.esquire.com/features/best-and-brightest-2009/shane-claiborne-1209 @realrobbell (Online source)  The link takes us to What If Jesus Meant All That Stuff. In that article a couple of weeks ago Shane Claiborne […]

We subtitle this short follow-up to the Apprising Ministries post Note To Emerging Church TranFORM: Yet Another Adventure In Missing The Point. If you’ve dialogued with as many folks ‘round the  egregiously ecumenical Emerging Church aka Emergent Church, which is a cult of postliberalism—now morphing into Emergence Christianity (EC)—as I have, then you’ll know well what I’m about to […]

One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?” “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord […]

But you, beloved, ought to remember the words that were spoken beforehand by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, that they were saying to you, “In the last time there will be mockers, following after their own ungodly lusts.” These are the ones who cause divisions, worldly-minded, devoid of the Spirit. (Jude 17-19, NASB) These Men […]

First you begin with a great big bowl full of years of shallow self-centered “what does this verse mean to me” Bible studies. Next stir in a large measure of biblical illiteracy, while adding a small dose of the yeast of refusing to refute error; and make sure to blend in more than a moderate […]

Well ok, it’s not so much that Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren himself is any radical, but he does want to make sure you know that his next generation seeker-sensitive boyz sure r. I’m sorry about being plain; you see, I don’t have a keyboard that can reverse the letter r to be more rad. However, today via the mass […]

With much talk surrounding the recent The Manhattan Declaration Of Christian Conscience, and whether or not evangelicals should align themselves with Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox “Christians,” it seems good to bring a bit of perspective concerning Eastern Orthodoxy. And among the false teachings that Emergence Christianity ala Brian McLaren and Rob Bell is trying […]

Pastor Larry DeBruyn begins this piece by saying: Some Christians naively and mistakenly equate that because Christianity and Islam are monotheistic faiths (belief in one God), Christians and Muslims worship the same God. Any differences between the two religions are viewed to be only apparent, not actual. Only the names are different. Muslims call Him […]

It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. (Galatians 5:1) Returning To Romanticized Roman Catholicism  In posts like Emerging Church To TransFORM Outlaw Preachers and Emerging Church And Adele Sakler TransFORM Gay Agenda In Evangelicalism at Apprising Ministries I introduced you to TransFORM, a […]

As a former Roman Catholic I went on record a week ago asking some questions concerning this document in the November 23 Apprising Ministries post The Manhattan Declaration Of Christian Conscience. In my opinion, if as the declaration says, we can unite together “as Christians” with those who adhere to Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy to “proclaim the Gospel,” […]