DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA!    Indeed, I am against those who prophesy false dreams,” declares the LORD. “They tell them and lead my people astray with their reckless lies, yet I did not send or appoint them. They do not benefit these people in the least,” declares the LORD. (Jeremiah 23:32) Don’t Look Now But […]

DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA!    O My people! Their oppressors are children, And women rule over them; O My people! Those who guide you lead you astray, And confuse the direction of your paths. (Isaiah 3:12, NASB) Becoming Indoctrinated As The Water Very Slowly Continues To Come A Boil Apprising Ministries showed you a little while ago in […]

Eugene Peterson is a devotee of the corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism spewed by Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster and his spiritual twin SBC minister Dallas Willard as their spurious Spiritual Formation. At this point it’s very important for you to understand that this CSM, and its “Christian” form of transcendental meditation called Contemplative/Centering Prayer, originally flowered in the antibiblical monastic traditions of […]

Justin Taylor has a short post at his Between Two Worlds blog containing links to a couple of articles that should be of concern to those who are so enamored with Emergence Christianity icon Rob Bell. You can read it by clicking here. See also:  IS ROB BELL EVANGELICAL? ROB BELL, PETER ROLLINS AND PHYLLIS TICKLE TOGETHER ADVANCING EMERGENCE CHRISTIANITY ROB […]

We present the following here at Apprising Ministries as further example that, even within the more conservative mainstream of ostensibly Protestant evangelicalism, highly subjective “experience” is now beginning to trump the written text of the Bible. As an illustration we’ll consider Non Sola Scriptura: the Blackaby view of God’s will — 1 from Dan Phillips over at the fine online discernment and apologetics ministry […]

The idols among the smooth stones of the ravines are your portion; they, they are your lot. Yes, to them you have poured out drink offerings and offered grain offerings. In the light of these things, should I relent? You have made your bed on a high and lofty hill; there you went up to […]

In Confusion Concerning Calvinist Spirituality? — a prior Apprising Ministries post concerning Matt Chandler, pastor of Village Church — we pointed to a confusing promotion of Counter-Reformation spirituality ala Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the spiritual Gestapo unit the Jesuits, at Chandler’s church’s website. In the section Recommended Books of The Village Church, “that have challenged and helped us as a staff […]

DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA!   For those who guide this people are leading them astray; And those who are guided by them are brought to confusion. (Isaiah 9:16, NASB) If A Little Leaven Ruins The Whole; What About A Whole Movement That’s Full Of It? Apprising Ministries first mentioned this in Rob Bell, Peter Rollins And […]

The LORD enters into judgment against the elders and leaders of his people. (Isaiah 3:14) Reject Contemplative Spirituality And Instead Pray According To The Will Of God What will follow is illustrated e.g. by the Apprising Ministries piece Ravi Zacharias International Ministries Contunues Asserting Henri Nouwen A Great Christian Saint. Since I happen to be one whom God, […]

But I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man, but to remain quiet. (1 Timothy 2:12, NASB) Evangelicalism Opening The Same Door Of No Return As Did Mainline Denominations  As Apprising Ministries showed you in Tony Jones And His Pastor Doug Pagitt With JoPa Productions And Christianity 21 through their […]