By Apprising Ministries correspondent Chrystal Whitt of Slaughter of the Sheep The heretical New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) has been gaining steam, and the movers and shakers want to take over the world through their seven mountain, or seven spheres, of influence.  When we watch people like Rick Joyner in action, we may be tempted to believe he is just […]

See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ. (Colossians 2:8, ESV) Postmodern Word Games Apprising Ministries is an online apologetics and discernment work specializing in analyzing current trends in the visible church apprising […]

And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the LORD. And behold, at the entrance of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs to the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east, worshiping the sun toward the […]

 This online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries has been among those who’ve been reporting on an ill-advised decision by Dr. John Piper to bring Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren into the Desiring God Conference 2010 as the keynote speaker. Unfortunately, it got even worse when Dr. Piper defended his decision; and so, Warrengate is still slowly simmering: At root I think [Rick Warren] is theological […]

In recent posts such as Leonard Sweet, Frank Viola, And The Third Way and Root Of This New Downgrade here at Apprising Ministries I’ve been showing you how deeply the practice, and results, of Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) within the pretending to be Protestant squishy evanjellyfish community. And in Mark Driscoll And Neo-Reformed New Calvinist Contemplative Spirituality I’ve also shown you that […]

 He went on his way through towns and villages, teaching and journeying toward Jerusalem. And someone said to him, “Lord, will those who are saved be few?” And he said to them, “Strive to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able. When once […]

The following Critical Issues Commentary by Christian apologist Bob DeWaay and is republished at Apprising Ministries with permission: “So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God’s household, having been built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the […]

A main function of the online apologetics and discernment work here at Apprising Ministries is to alert you to developing trends within the visible church. In that regard you may recall the recent post The Coalescing Of The Christian Right With Apostolic Dominionism, which was built around an in-depth and well-researched article at Herescope from my friend Dr. Orrel […]

 Right in line with the Apprising Ministries post Root Of This New Downgrade, in this time of Rodney King, “Can’t we all just get along” theology, on his latest DL program (video below) Dr. James White of Alpha & Omega Ministries asks: a simple question: where is the church in the Ergun Caner Scandal? Why is it that […]

“How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?” (Matthew 18:12, KJV) This New Downgrade Today Creates No Controversy Apprising Ministries has been warning about, and documenting, the […]