Category: Current Issues

JAMES WHITE: TROUBLING ASPECTS OF MANHATTAN DECLARATION »

In the Apprising Ministries post The Manhattan Declaration Of Christian Conscience I shared my questions concerning this declaration. Here I give you the link to what Dr. James White of Alpha & Omega Ministries had to say. White shares: There is much in this document that any serious-minded Christian not only can agree with, but simply must agree […]

AL MOHLER: WHY I SIGNED THE MANHATTAN DECLARATION »

This is a brief follow-up to the Apprising Ministries piece The Manhattan Declaration Of Christian Conscience. You can find the link to this document etc. in that prior post; here I point you to an opinion piece for Christian Post where Dr. Al Mohler, one of the original signers of The Manhattan Declaration, gives his […]

THE MANHATTAN DECLARATION OF CHRISTIAN CONSCIENCE »

The homepage tells us: Christians, when they have lived up to the highest ideals of their faith, have defended the weak and vulnerable and worked tirelessly to protect and strengthen vital institutions of civil society, beginning with the family. We are Orthodox, Catholic, and evangelical Christians who have united at this hour to reaffirm fundamental […]

IS GOD ‘A RECOVERING PRACTITIONER OF VIOLENCE’? »

This appears originally at Christian Research Net— A few minutes ago the emerging church group TransFORM retweeted the below: RT @zoecarnate: Is God ‘a recovering practitioner of violence’? http://is.gd/50B4q Samir Selmanovic also retweeted the above, adding his own comment: RT @zoecarnate: Is God ‘a recovering practitioner of violence’? http://is.gd/50B4q. (Samir: “Yes, we are.”) The link takes us to Is […]

WHAT'S WITH THE GOD SPEAKS POST? »

I’ve pointed out previously that as a general rule, and a courtesy, we do not publish email without the permission of the sender. However at the same time, all email sent to AM and Christian Research Network is considered the property of Apprising Ministries so we may indeed publish unsolicited email for the purposes of […]

CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS STANDING UP FOR JESUS? »

In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, while evil men and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. (2 Timothy 3:12)  Rough Spiritual Waters Dead Ahead In many of our local fellowships on a given Sunday we could hear a congregation singing songs like […]

BRIAN MCLAREN ON RELIGIOUS INSANITY AND EVANGELICAL COWARDICE »

Brian McLaren, a leading guru in the egregiously ecumenical Emerging Church de-formation of the Christian faith aka Emergent Church—now morphing into Emergence Christianity (EC), says — “Enough is enough” in his post Religious Right Insanity, Evangelical Cowardice: I’m disgusted by the latest absurdity from the religious right covered in the clip below. I’m also depressed by the lack of courage […]

EVANGELICALISM BECOMING ANOTHER RELIGION ENTIRELY »

Then the LORD said to me in the days of Josiah the king, “Have you seen what faithless Israel did? She went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and she was a harlot there. “I thought, ‘After she has done all these things she will return to Me’; but she did not […]

CROSSTALK: INGRID SCHLUETER AND BOB DEWAAY ON BUDDHISTS AT BETHEL UNIVERSITY »

From the Crosstalk website: Recently, Bethel University in the Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota, area held an interreligious symposium that was titled: Meditation–Buddhist and Christian: Is There Common Ground? Pastor Bob DeWaay of Twin City Fellowship appeared on Crosstalk to discuss this symposium, a gathering that sought to explore how much common ground there is in both […]

EMERGING CHURCH AND ADELE SAKLER TRANSFORM GAY AGENDA IN EVANGELICALISM »

Recently Apprising Ministries pointed out the Growing Gay Agenda In Evangelicalism; therein you will see Tony Jones, a leading spokesman for the egregiously ecumenical Emerging Church de-formation of the Christian faith aka Emergent Church—now morphing into Emergence Christianity (EC)—speak of “a shift” toward full inclusion of GLBTQ people within evangelicalism. And in Emerging Church To TransFORM Outlaw Preachers I talked about the EC […]

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