This morning I received an email from “a pastor’s wife” asking if I was “nuts” for daring to criticize Steven Furtick in the piece Steven Furtick: Pastor With A Real Chip On His Shoulder at Christian Research Net, which is an outreach of Apprising Ministries. As I told her the fact is this growing cult of church […]

The elders who rule well are to be considered worthy of double honor, especially those who work hard at preaching and teaching. For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle the ox while he is threshing,” and “The laborer is worthy of his wages.” Do not receive an accusation against an elder except on the […]

Apprising Ministries shares the latest we have concerning a subject we began covering in Calvinists To Be “Let Go” From Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (SBC). It’s been alleged that there was a meeting at SWBTS in preparation to dismiss professors holding to Calvinism. But as AM pointed out in Paige Patterson Hopes Calvinist Professors Won’t […]

The website DefCon posted the following quote from Dr. John MacArthur of Grace to You. Even though I have a couple of points where I don’t agree with MacArthur I am still pleased to recommend him to people as one of the finest teachers of the Bible that Jesus has given His Church in our […]

Apprising Ministries presents the below composite email—representing common questions/comments AM receives—for the edification of our readers concerning the corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism being advanced under cover of spurious Spiritual Formation by Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster along with his spiritual twin Dallas Willard: Hi Ken, I would like to request your help. My friend and brother in […]

Apprising Ministries continues our coverage of an accusation made by Wade Burleson in his post Forcibly Removing the Tulips at SWBTS. One which Robin Foster of SBC Today has referred to as Tabloid Blogging: Because of the recent tabloid blogging that has occurred at this site here and here, we at SBC Today have been busy answering questions […]

Yesterday in *Update* Calvinists To Be “Let Go” From Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (SBC) here at Apprising Ministries I made you aware of something my friend Mike Corley pointed out to me from his blog The Expositor. Mike had placed up a link to a post from Wade Burleson called Forcibly Removing the Tulips at […]

At his Grace and Truth to You blog, where Wade Burleson shares “Personal Reflections on the Southern Baptist Convention,” he informs us of some startling news: Yesterday Dr. Paige Patterson met with professors in the theology school at SWBTS and said that the seminary would be letting go the five point Calvinist professors from the […]

*Update* Joanne Brokaw notified me via email yesterday that her post had gone online while still only in draft form so she had removed it, which is why there was no way for people to comment yesterday. Today her post has been republished and the link below is to her new piece. The Apprising Ministries post Christian Band […]

Looks like Apprising Ministries hit some kind of nerve here with Christian Band Family Force 5 On How To Become A Christian concerning the “Christian crunk rock band” Family Force 5. I received a bit of email, and with the permission of the authors, as a pastor I feel led to share with you the ones below, […]