Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. (James 3:1, ESV) You Then Who Teach Others, Do You Not Teach Yourself? Mark S. Hansen is “Presiding Bishop” of the mortally wounded ELCA, which as you can see in the Apprising Ministries post ELCA And […]

Jonathan Bell, who’s brother is Rob Bell, the Elvis of the egregiously ecumenical Emerging Church de-formation of the Christian faith aka Emergent Church—now morphing into Emergence Christianity (EC), wanted us to know about: an interview with my brother (@realrobbell) that sheds some light on some of the projects we’re working on http://bit.ly/9VmN7 (Online source) That link takes us to […]

And Pharisees came up to Him and tested Him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one’s wife for any cause?” He answered, “Have you not read that He Who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast […]

As a prelude to publishing an open letter to Todd Bentley, seen here applying for membership in the Outlaw Preachers—who just love their tats—my good friend Bud Press of Christian Research Service begins his post by saying: Maybe it was just a glitch in Todd Bentley’s computer. Or, maybe Bentley accidentally hit delete instead of […]

One of the crippling results of the man-centered and pragmatic Church Growth Movement—rooted as it is in good old American “know-how”—is it gave birth to the “ministries” of men like Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren; along with a virtual church planting cult of wannabe Warrens e.g. Stephen Furtick (seen below), who talk a lot about being leaders […]

Today my friend Ingrid Schlueter, founder of Christian Research Net, placed up a post at the Crosstalk Blog called Carrie Prejean, Sexting and a Lost Generation. In this very short piece Ingrid is actually introducing a link to a column by Rebecca Hagelin concerning Carrie Prejean, who’s very busy making the rounds right now promoting […]

“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will recognize them by their fruits.” (Matthew 7:15-16, ESV) Professing To Be Wise, Becoming Fools I’ve been doing what I can here at Apprising Ministries to track the influx of heresy into the mainstream evangelical community, which is […]

Some Pharisees came to Jesus, testing Him and asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason at all?” And He answered and said, “Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning ‘made them male and female’, and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave […]

This is a follow-up to the Apprising Ministries articles Growing Gay Agenda In Evangelicalism and Andrew Marin And Phyllis Tickle. Therein I used the two part interview of Phyllis Tickle, the empress of the egregiously ecumenical Emerging Church de-formation of the Christian faith aka Emergent Church—now morphing into Emergence Christianity—(EC) conducted by Andrew Marin and posted […]

This is a follow-up to the Apprising Ministries article Growing Gay Agenda In Evangelicalism. Therein I used the two part interview of Phyllis Tickle, the empress of the egregiously ecumenical Emerging Church de-formation of the Christian faith aka Emergent Church—now morphing into Emergence Christianity—(EC) conducted by Andrew Marin and posted over at his blog. These two videos, the first of […]