Those who have been following the whole issue of the seeker sensitive pragmatics of the modern Church Growth Movement as it has infiltrated the Evangelical postchurch in postmodern America can clearly see the influence of Robert Schuller’s gospel of self-esteem. The root connection of these dubious gnostic psycho-philosophies as they have been grafted into the […]

It seems almost incredible to believe but the twin pythons of deception are attempting to strangle the Church of Jesus Christ in America by denying the very Word of God. On one side there is the Emergent Church Movement (ECM), wrapping itself around the Evangelical Church from within, and then there’s the Church of Jesus […]

One of the latest seeker sensitive fads infesting the Church of our Lord today has become know as the Emergent Church Movement (ECM). In this article I share an overview of what I as a pastor find of grave concern about this lastest delusion of the Devil, most particularly the ECM’s appalling lack of commitment […]

This is the final part of our look at this crucial question, and we have already seen more clearly the unbridgeable chasm between these two contrasting positions. We have also been looking briefly at some comments directed to me by Richard Abanes, a prominent member of Rick Warren’s Saddleback church, and therefore a good example […]

In the first part of this look into the wide chasm between the high call of the Christ-centered life that our Lord Jesus calls all of His disciples to, and the contrasting shallow man-centered doctrines of the Purpose Driven Life, I shared how my initial involvement with ministry to the postmodern church began. Awash with […]

As the pastor-teacher of a local church, in addition to developing this Internet “pulpit” called Apprising Ministries, which was literally given to me, I have had to come to grips with the very real fact that there is a wide and ultimately unbridgeable chasm of difference between these two divergent positions. There clearly is a […]

As the Church of our Lord entered the 21st century in reverse, terms like user-friendly and seeker sensitive, pragmatic concepts quite common in the secular business world but completely foreign to the historic orthodox Christian Church, have dominated religious discussions. Christian pastors and leaders, faced with dwindling attendance in their churches, began to wonder how […]

By looking at the overly seeker sensitive Evangelical church today, if you didn’t know better, you would think that the life of the Christian is to try desperately to find the mysterious purpose that God has for you so that you’ll be able to peacefully live within the world. But then, maybe what the born-again […]

With all this confusion the Devil has been sowing within the Evangelical church today, parents should dare not forget that their primary role is to teach our children to fear the Lord.