The following is a book review of The Shack by Dr. Gary Gilley from his September 2008 edition of Think On These Things, which is a ministry of Southern View Chapel where Gilley is pastor, and is reprinted here at Apprising Ministries by permission: The Shack by William P. Young One of the most popular and controversial Christian […]

Rob Bell, the Elvis of Emergence Christianity, has taught: It’s interesting how many traditions (pause) When you read the great enlightened ones; meditation, centering prayer, reflection—in every tradition you can find the mystics—and what’s always at the heart of the spiritual lives, the everyday lives of the great ones was always a period of time. Whether […]

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. (1 John 4:1, NASB) Tuning Out The Ways Of God To Tune In The Traditions Of Men  It is true that I don’t happen to agree with everything the late […]

The following is from unsolicited email received from a brother pastor-teacher and is published with his permission. He was writing in response to the recent Apprising Ministries article Richard Foster A Reliable Source For Proper Christian Spirituality? Sadly, Celebration of Discipline, a piece of spiritual skubalon by Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster, which Dr. Gary Gilley has rightly called “a […]

as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.” (Romans 3:10-12, ESV) The god of Rock And Roll Does Soothe The Soul Of Many Modern Christians  And postmodern professing Christians as well it seems. O, […]

Then the LORD said to me, “The prophets are prophesying falsehood in My name I have neither sent them nor commanded them nor spoken to them; they are prophesying to you a false vision, divination, futility and the deception of their own minds.” (Jeremiah 14:14, NASB) Hammering Out The Golden Buddha Of The Mystic Mush […]

Pastor John Chisham with an poignant post at his blog The Downgrade, which builds a bit on the CRN post An Ode to the Naive. He begins by asking the critical question for Christians: What is the reality of the condition of the American Church today? C?RN.info writers claim that everything is okay, except for the Synagogue […]

From the Christian Research Net: Richard Abanes thinks so. In his article Don’t Believe Everything You Read…On the Internet the apologist for Rick Warren writes: It’s almost beyond belief that individuals supposedly indwelt by the Holy Spirit could be partakers of such activity. But the facts show that a significant number of “Christian” blogs & websites have […]

  DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA Dr. Peter Jones begins this dead on target assessment of apostatizing evangelicalism: My colleague, Mike Horton, has just published a book, Christless Christianity. I write, so to speak, from the belly of this beast, attending the National Pastors’ Conference, sponsored by Zondervan and Intervarsity Press, which is taking place in […]

But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt. (Genesis 19:26) Almost Saved, But Not Quite… Pastor Doug Pagitt, a leading voice in the evangelical Emergence rebellion against Sola Scriptura along with his friends such as Phyllis Tickle and the Elvis of Emergence Rob Bell, shares an email he received the other […]