…first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and present your offering. (Matthew 5:24) No matter who is responsible for a severed relationship—and often both sides bear some guilt—it’s essential to reconcile before going to God in worship. But even if you have nothing against the other person and the fault lies entirely with them, you should […]

For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ… Yet in like manner these people also, relying on their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme the glorious […]

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you. (1 Peter 1:3-4). “Reserved for heaven […]

The following by Dr. Gary Gilley, pastor of Southern View Chapel, is republished at Apprising Ministries with permission: (April/May 2012 – Volume 18, Issue 2) Of all the spiritual disciplines the Spiritual Formation Movement promotes, none is more important than prayer and the intake of God’s Word. On the surface we would expect little resistance […]

Apprising Ministries has long been warning you about the danger of listening to neo-Gnostics like Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster. For years now Foster, along with his his spiritual twin Dallas Willard, has been teaching corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) under the guise of so-called Spiritual Formation. But what we’re actually dealing with is really a romanticized version […]

But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. (John 14:26) Briefly let me run over in my mind, and in your minds too, the characteristics of this glorious […]

By Pastor Larry DeBruyn of Guarding His Flock Ministries, republished here with permission: Does anybody care? A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land;  The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?Jeremiah 5:30-31, KJV As […]

Among the issues Apprising Ministries covers is the heretical Word Faith (WF) movement as it heads toward acceptance within the mainstream. Sadly, people Joyce Meyer and Joel Osteen are tip-of-the-spear with man-centered self-esteem messages ala Robert Schueller, which they claim are given to them by direct revelation from God Himself. So weak and in lust for the […]

For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart fails me. (Psalm 40:12) In the more advanced stages of the Christian life, we find much into the experience of […]

See also: DID JESUS ARGUE DOCTRINE? REFUTE FALSE DOCTRINE OR ADAPT IT?  ADAM WALKER CLEAVELAND SAYS JESUS WAS WRONG