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ELCA BISHOP MARK HANSON SAYS BIBLE NOT FINAL AUTHORITY »

Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. (Ephesians 6:11-12) Prince […]

SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION AND "INSIGHTFUL" EMERGING CHURCH HERETIC TONY JONES »

Within a source paper called Spiritual Disciplines: Pathway to Christian Maturity (SDPCM), from the Georgia Baptist Convention (SBC), we learn what is now considered consistent with a proper Protestant approach to spirituality for Christians in the Southern Baptist Convention. Continuing along the lines of Richard Foster Forming Protestant Southern Baptist Convention Spirituality here Apprising Ministries begins with the following from Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker […]

PHIL JOHNSON: AN EXCELLENT JEREMIAD FROM MR. SPURGEON »

In a very interesting, and timely post today at Pyromaniacs, Phil Johnson places some excerpts “from an editorial Charles Spurgeon published in The Sword and the Trowel in 1871, more than a decade before the famous Downgrade Controversy.” If you don’t know, this was Spurgeon’s dealing with what the late cult expert Dr. Walter Martin […]

DR. JAMES DUNCAN ON PIRATE CHRISTIAN RADIO TO DISCUSS ISSUE WITH PERRY NOBLE'S NEWSPRING CHURCH »

You may recall Apprising Ministries carried a post by my good friend and CRN correspondent Stephen Macasil called Perry Noble And NewSpring Church Attempt To Silence Their Critic: Dr. James Duncan. Therein Macasil informs us: Dr. James Duncan, Associate Professor of Communication at Anderson University, has written “Holy Rage at the ‘Spring,” a detailed account […]

TURNING LOVE BACKWARD AS SELF »

One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?” “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord […]

NOTE TO EMERGING CHURCH TRANFORM »

But you, beloved, ought to remember the words that were spoken beforehand by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ, that they were saying to you, “In the last time there will be mockers, following after their own ungodly lusts.” These are the ones who cause divisions, worldly-minded, devoid of the Spirit. (Jude 17-19, NASB) These Men […]

RECIPE FOR SPIRITUAL DISASTER »

First you begin with a great big bowl full of years of shallow self-centered “what does this verse mean to me” Bible studies. Next stir in a large measure of biblical illiteracy, while adding a small dose of the yeast of refusing to refute error; and make sure to blend in more than a moderate […]

CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY/MYSTICISM CREEPS CLOSER…TO YOUR CHURCH »

It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. (Galatians 5:1) Returning To Romanticized Roman Catholicism  In posts like Emerging Church To TransFORM Outlaw Preachers and Emerging Church And Adele Sakler TransFORM Gay Agenda In Evangelicalism at Apprising Ministries I introduced you to TransFORM, a […]

WHAT DOES THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH TEACH ABOUT THE DOCTRINE OF JUSTIFICATION? »

It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery. (Galatians 5:1, NASB) The Oddity Of Protestants No Longer Protesting Apprising Ministries has documented for you the fact that there have been no changes in the dogmas of apostate Roman Catholicism concerning soteriology […]

GAY CHRISTIAN »

I’ve pointed out many times now that as a general rule, and a courtesy, we do not publish email without the permission of the sender. However at the same time, all email sent to AM and Christian Research Network is considered the property of Apprising Ministries so we may indeed publish unsolicited email for the purposes of […]

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