The following email concerning the Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) scene, and more specifically the Christian band Family Force 5, was sent to Apprising Ministries and is published here by permission of the young person who wrote it. As a pastor I felt led to post it because it speaks so loudly and clearly to the detrimental […]

Tadd Grandstaff, lead pastor goat-herder, and his Pine Ridge Church wants to put God to the test. Here are some of the contest…oops…tithe challenge rules: I understand that this form must be completed and received by the Pine Ridge Church Finance Team prior to the beginning of the 60-day Tithe Challenge Period. I understand that my household qualifies […]

But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many! Again, the gift of God is not like the result of […]

As a pastor it seems good to present the following unsolicited email as further illustration of the blind trust given to apostates (at best) like Roman Catholic mystic Richard Rohr. It concerns the Apprising Ministries post Richard Rohr: Conversations, Convergence And Emergence Apostasy. The writer of the email apparently took exception to my comment about […]

In their post Tribal Demonic “Ministry” at A Little Leaven they place up the second video below.  Apprising Ministries has been documenting the spiritual deception of altered states of consciousness as in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism ala Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster for years now. So when I saw the Joyner footage it immediately reminded me of the whirling dervishes of the mystical tradition of Sufi […]

The Center for Action and Contemplation (CAC) wants you to mark March 20-22, 2009 on our calendars for the CAC sponsored Conversations, Convergence and Action (CCA). The CAC website encourages us: Come to the first large gathering of Roman Catholic, Mainline Protestant, Evangelical, and other Christians seeking to explore this emergence and convergence together. You’ll […]

Cornerstone Christian Fellowship of Chandler, AZ has the requisite cool edgy blog for young adults. Maintained by James Patterson, Singles Pastor, it’s called the rhythm. Now in the post The Mystery of S*E*X (Week 2) we read: If we are ever to unlock the mysteries surrounding S*E*X, and we are to understand them as they relate to God’s perfect […]

If you still think that this reimagined and repainted inclusive squishy social gospel of good deeds preached by postliberals like Rob Bell is something new; you’d better think again. Here’s J. Gresham Machen from his book Christianity & Liberalism written in 1923:  But if Christianity be directed toward another world; if it be a way […]

But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of godliness, although they […]

Over at Camp On This Steve Camp posts the text of the prayer practicing homosexual Gene Robinson prayed To the God of our many understandings. Biblical translation: Robinson offered his prayer to demons and not to God (see-1 Corinthians 10:20); he was actually praying to the mush god of messed-up mysticism.  As I said in the combox […]