In What John Piper And Jim Wallis Have In Common And Why The Pope Will Be Delighted here at Apprising Ministries I told you that over at the Desiring God blog in A System for Praying in 2012 , which was his New Years Eve post, Jonathan Parnell recommended Lectio Divina: (Online source) Tonight he has amended his […]

PLURA SCRIPTURA  ([ploo r-uh ] [skrɪpt ər’ uh]) [(1350–1400; Middle English  < Latin plūrālis,  equivalent to plūr-,  stem of plūs plus  + -alis -al); (1250–1300; Middle English  < Latin scrīptūra  writing. See script, -ure) ((Latin ablative, “by Scripture plus more”)* Consisting of, containing, or pertaining to more than the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments; […]

By Apprising Ministries special correspondent Justin Edwards of airō For some folks my intention was not clear when posting yesterday’s article titled, On John Piper and Lectio Divina….  For two or three days after I first heard about the Ephesians reading at Passion 2012 and had seen a few blogs about it, I contemplated (no […]

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John Piper…seems to be on a mission of inclusivity that has caused him a great deal of trouble in the recent past. The latest issue connected to his name is the issue of Lectio Divina. On his website Piper endorses this as a method of prayers [sic] and Bible study… I think that the real problem […]

Idolatry is all manner of seeming holiness and worshipping, let these counterfeit spiritualities shine outwardly as glorious and fair as they may; in a word, all manner of devotion in those that we would serve God without Christ the Mediator, his Word and command. In popedom it was held a work of the greatest sanctity […]

Apprising Ministries continues exposing corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) rooted in the antibiblical monastic tradition of the apostate Church of Rome as it slithers right into the mainstream of the apostatizing evangelical community. To those not given to the spiritual blindness decending upon the church visible it’s obvious that CSM, with its crown jewel—a form of meditation in an altered […]

Spiritual darkness continues to grow and 1 Peter 4:17 judgments are being sent by Jesus to rain upon the visible Christian church. As apostasy increases Apprising Ministries functions with other soldiers against error in the mission field of online apologetics and discernment along the Internet Front of this Truth War. One major root of this […]

“I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture. 10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy.” “I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his […]

By Apprising Ministries special correspondent Erin Benziger of Do Not Be Surprised… There’s no shortage of teaching and perspectives on prayer today in the “Christian” world. As they have for centuries, people who “feel far from God” continue to seek more “spiritual” experiences, and as such fall into dangerous, demonic deceptions. One such devilish device […]