By AM correspondent Daniel Neades of Better Than Sacrifice Much of modern evangelicalism seems to be fixated upon the idea that we can only progress as individual Christians and the church if we are pursing a dream or vision. This tendency is epitomized in these two claims: Nothing happens till somebody starts dreaming. What we […]

In posts like Doug Pagitt Points Us To Michael Dowd and Doug Pagitt Agrees With Evolutionary Evangelist Michael Dowd the online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries introduced you to Rev. Michael Dowd, whom I first brought to your attention in Jesus Died For Our Reptilian Brain. Dowd is “an ordained Christian minister with a Master of Divinity degree”[1] and author of Thank […]

By Apprising Ministries correspondent Christine Pack of Sola Sisters The Desiring God 2010 National Conference is now underway at the Minneapolis Convention Center in Minneapolis, MN.  The Desiring God conferences that John Piper hosts annually are known for bringing together some of the best and brightest thinkers, teacher and pastors in American Christianity.  The key […]

Apprising Ministries is doing what we can to cover, and document, issues within the visible church while spiritual blindness grows and a tsunami of apostasy approaches.   I’ve told you that evangelicalism made a horrible mistake when it embraced the sinfully ecumenical neo-liberal cult of the Emerging Church—a veritable Trojan Horse full of heresy. This spiritually nafarious group is headed by, […]

by Chris Rosebrough,  host of Fighting for the Faith on Pirate Christian Radio I was very disappointed to see that the Desiring God National Conference was selling Rick Warren’s Bible study method book. (Online source) It is clear from Rick Warren’s chronic Bible twisting in his sermons and his books that he only gives lip service to […]

I’ve pointed out previously that as a part of the online apologetics and discernment work Jesus has called me to here at Apprising Ministries is to chart issues happening as spiritual blindness grows in the visible church and a resulting tsunami of apostasy rapidly approaches. One need only look at Peter Scazzero Bringing Rome Home To His Church; […]

Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh? (Galatians 3:3) Peter Scazzero And Rick Warren Are Spreading  Contemplative Spirituality As part of the online apologetics and discernment work being done here at Apprising Ministries we’ve been covering the upgrading of the sinfully ecumenical Emerging Church aka Emergent Church into a full […]

“When you come to appear before me, who has required of you this trampling of my courts? Bring no more vain offerings; incense is an abomination to me. New moon and Sabbath and the calling of convocations—I cannot endure iniquity and solemn assembly. Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hates; they have become a […]

 Apprising Ministries reminds you that, having been pronounced “doctrinal and sound” by Dr. John Piper, Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren is set to be a keynote speaker at the DG 2010 conference Think: The Life of the Mind & the Love of God beginning Friday. As an example of some of the Church Growth Movement wisdom Warren regularly dispenses I point you […]

And then there’s the word “inclusion.” Another fine word in its own right. Considering the church’s spotted past in excluding people for the wrong reasons-too poor, too black, too awkward-inclusion can sound awfully good. And it is, when by “inclusion” we mean something like “welcome.” The church, of all places, should be an inviting haven […]