Category: Current Issues

THE NEW CHRISTIANS WITH CHRISTIANITY WORTH BELIEVING—YOGA »

 Apprising Ministries told you in The New Christians With Christianity Worth Believing—No Sola Scriptura: Yes, Women Pastors And Queer Christians that leading Emerging Church aka Emergent Church—morphing into Emergence Christianity (EC)—spokesman Tony Jones has written a book called The New Christians and his pastor Doug Pagitt has one called A Christianity Worth Believing. Then in Christianity 21: Emerging Voices Of A Pseudo-Christian Faith […]

EMERGENCE CHRISTIANITY—A POSTLIBERAL CULT SLITHERS INTO EVANGELICALISM »

 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) But Must You Be So Blunt In What You Say? Now I readily acknowledge there are those who have taken serious […]

WELCOME TO NEW READERS »

While in the midst of a critical financial slump Apprising Ministries, which is not my personal ministry/website but an outreach of Connecticut River Baptist Church, would like to welcome our new readers. The Lord be praised that nearing our fourth anniversary of ministry to the Body of Christ we have seen our readership rise to […]

SCHLUETER FAMILY ANNOUNCEMENT »

The Schlueter Family greatfully announces the following.

DECONSTRUCTING THE GOSPEL-LESS GOSPEL OF ROB BELL »

 In this version of his Fighting for the Faith podcast from his Pirate Christian Radio apologist Chris Rosebrough does a serious and thorough deconstruction of the gospel-less gospel of Rob Bell, a popular icon in the egregiously ecumenical Emerging Church aka Emergent Church—morphing into Emergence Christianity (EC). How refreshing to hear Rosebrough bring our attention to the critical importance of the Gospel of […]

JOHN MACARTHUR: GETTING THE GOSPEL RIGHT »

 Dr. John MacArthur begins this short piece on the most critical subject there is by pointing out:  I am amazed at some of the things that have been said and written in recent years about the gospel.  I fear that in many circles a different message is replacing the good news of salvation.  I’m not […]

EUGENE PETERSON SAYS ROMAN CATHOLIC VON BALTHASAR "PREMIER THEOLOGIAN ON CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALITY" »

 In Eat This Book (ETB), which is about the supposed critical importance of using Lectio Divina (LD), a Roman Catholic practice of Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM), Eugene Peterson calls Hans  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-1988) “the twentieth century’s premier theologian on Christian spirituality” and tells us that Balthasar “insisted that in matters of spirituality it is form that […]

*UPDATE* ROB BELL'S GOSPEL-LESS GOSPEL »

 *Update* On his “Fighting for the Faith” broadcast today at 6 pm Eastern time Chris Rosebrough of Pirate Christian Radio will be deconstructing the message heard in the video below. In the following you can view Rob Bell, a popular icon in the egregiously ecumenical Emerging Church aka Emergent Church—morphing into Emergence Christianity (EC)—as he shares his gospel-less view of “Good […]

SIN OF HOMOSEXUALITY IS DIFFERENT »

 What makes it so extremely difficult to discuss the issue of practicing homosexuality, which is having sexual relations with another of the same sex outside of marriage, is the huge straw man erected whenever the subject is brought up. The argument that’s almost immediately raised goes something like this: “Why single out this particular sin while […]

CARMEL BAPTIST CHURCH AND SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY »

 Following a tip from an Apprising Ministries reader we bring attention to Carmel Baptist Church (CBC) of Matthews, NC; an SBC church where Dr. Wayne Poplin is pastor, and which is affiliated with the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina whom AM has discussed e.g. in Richard Foster Forming Protestant Southern Baptist Convention Spirituality. We initially find cause for concern at CBC under […]

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