The PyroManiacs devote some space each weekend to highlights from The Spurgeon Archive. The following excerpt is from “Under Constraint,” a sermon preached Sunday morning 28 April 1878 at the Metropolitan Tabernacle in London: I have not much patience with a certain class of Christians nowadays who will hear anybody preach so long as they […]

…and from among your own selves will arise men speaking twisted things, to draw away the disciples after them. (Acts 20:30, ESV) Doug Pagitt And Emergent Village Come Emerging Apprising Ministries has been tracking the still developing neo-liberal cult of the Emergent Church festering within mainstream evangelicalism for half a decade now. Today I bring to your […]

As a small companion piece to Brian McLaren And His New Emerging Progressive Theology here at Apprising Ministries I now point you to today’s Jesus, Reconsidered: Book Sparks Evangelical Debate by Barbara Bradley Hagerty religion correspondent for NPR. In my coverage of heretical Emerging Church guru Brian McLaren, I’ve told you that he’s really becoming the source of much obfuscation […]

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. (2 Timothy 4:3-4, ESV)  Clouding The Lens So You Can’t See  Here at Apprising Ministries I’m […]

But, dear friends, remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ foretold. They said to you, “In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires.” These are the men who divide you, who follow mere natural instincts and do not have the Spirit. (Jude 17-19) Christians Denying Christianity? […]

It would appear that many, many years ago Chet Powers aka Dino Valenti, possibly a “pop music prophet,” ended up writing what just might be the inspired(?) theme song of the Emerging Church 2.o with its upgraded version of Progressive Christianity—a Liberalism 2.0—aka Emergence Christianity. That song’s full title is Let’s Get Together, though it’s typically associated with Jesse Colin Young as Get Together because his band The Youngbloods recorded it as […]

“I told you that you would die in your sins; if you do not believe that I am [the eternal God], you will indeed die in your sins.” (John 8:24, Greek) Christians Who Don’t Believe In Jesus? In the earlier Apprising Ministries piece Ken Silva Answers Philip Clayton I told you that in his post SHOULD the […]

…the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God. (1 Corinthians 10:20) Encouraging Idolatry Earlier Apprising Ministries brought to your attention a recent post by Tony Jones, the progressive theologian in residence at the Emerging Church of his progressive universalist pastor Doug Pagitt; it was called The Future of Progressive Theology and God’s Future, and in it Jones shares with […]

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. (2 Timothy 4:3-4, ESV) The Emporer’s Clothes Apprising Ministries has been tracking the Emerging Church for […]

The actual headline for this short report from Baylor University is: Christian Author to Speak at Intersections Lecture, but Emerging Church guru Brian McLaren is no brother of mine. Baylor student newswriter Lillyan Baker tells us: Dr. Brian McLaren, a Christian author, speaker, blogger and networker, will present his lecture “Beyond Absolutism, Pluralism, Relativism” at 7 p.m. Monday, March 22, […]