Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! (Isaiah 5:20, ESV) Tolerance But For Their Own Beliefs As one who is a pastor-teacher I’m presenting this piece here at the online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries for your […]

A main function of the online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries is to alert you to developing trends within the visible church. For example, I’ve been showing you the shift within the Emergent Church to the new kind of progressive/liberal Christianity that Emerging Church guru Brian McLaren has begun to lay out systematically in his latest book A New […]

Apprising Ministries has been keeping you apprised concerning the invitation from Dr. John Piper to Rick Warren asking him to be a keynote speaker at the Desiring God Conference 2010, which has opened up a bit of a Warrengate across the blogosphere. Today Justin Taylor offers The Piper-Warren Connection Revisited over at his Between Two Worlds for The Gospel Coalition. In his post Taylor points us […]

As Apprising Ministries keeps an eye out concerning the Warrengate opened when Dr. John Piper erred in inviting Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren to be a keynote speaker at the Desiring God Conference 2010 I came upon a short post today by Will Hatfield called An Exercise in Separation Otherwise Known as Discernment. Blogging at The Quest: A Network of Young Regular Baptist Leaders […]

If you didn’t know, Dr. Denny Burk is the Dean of Boyce College and Associate Professor of New Testament at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY. And today Dr. Burk hits the target dead-on concerning the new kind of progressive/liberal Christianity that Emerging Church guru Brian McLaren has now begun laying it out systematically in his latest book […]

Apprising Ministries has been keeping you updated on Warrengate, which has begun because Dr. John Piper suffered a lapse in judgment by inviting Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren to be a keynote speaker at the Desiring God Conference 2010. Yesterday I pointed you to a couple of radio programs featuring two godly men very much up on the issues involved […]

Apprising Ministries has long been covering the drift of Rob Bell, the rock star Elvis of the Emerging Church with its new version of Progressive Christianity aka Emergence Christianity. And in pieces like Through Rob Bell “The Great Enlightened Ones” Tell Us Man Has Divine Greatness and Rob Bell And Shane Hipps Teaching Mysticism I’ve clearly documented his fall into […]

In prior pieces such as Samir Selmanovic: God Is Father Of All Religion and Samir Selmanovic And Being Unable To Follow Jesus Without Islam here at Apprising Ministries I’ve introduced you  Samir Selamnovic, an up-and-coming ear-tickler within sinfully ecumenical Emerging Church circles. In fact, in Richard Rohr And The Emerging Church As The Third Way I showed you that Selmanovic […]

Apprising Ministries has been keeping you updated on Warrengate; and here in this post, I point you to the Iron Sharpens Iron website of my friend Chris Arnzen. Now Phil Johnson, who works closely with Dr. John MacArthur and blogs at Pyromaniacs has weighed in on Warrengate.  From the ISI website:  Phil Johnson, president of […]