While teaching on Zechariah 11:15-17, in the two video clips below, Dr. John MacArthur of Grace to You discusses how Hitler and the Nazi’s give us a bit of a peek at the coming Antichrist. Apprising Ministries finds of particular interest the role seducing spirits of the occult and its Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism played in the lives […]

Apprising Ministries continues our coverage of an accusation made by Wade Burleson in his post Forcibly Removing the Tulips at SWBTS. One which Robin Foster of SBC Today has referred to as Tabloid Blogging: Because of the recent tabloid blogging that has occurred at this site here and here, we at SBC Today have been busy answering questions […]

Yesterday in *Update* Calvinists To Be “Let Go” From Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (SBC) here at Apprising Ministries I made you aware of something my friend Mike Corley pointed out to me from his blog The Expositor. Mike had placed up a link to a post from Wade Burleson called Forcibly Removing the Tulips at […]

At his Grace and Truth to You blog, where Wade Burleson shares “Personal Reflections on the Southern Baptist Convention,” he informs us of some startling news: Yesterday Dr. Paige Patterson met with professors in the theology school at SWBTS and said that the seminary would be letting go the five point Calvinist professors from the […]

*Update* Joanne Brokaw notified me via email yesterday that her post had gone online while still only in draft form so she had removed it, which is why there was no way for people to comment yesterday. Today her post has been republished and the link below is to her new piece. The Apprising Ministries post Christian Band […]

The Center for Action and Contemplation (CAC) wants you to mark March 20-22, 2009 on our calendars for the CAC sponsored Conversations, Convergence and Action (CCA). The CAC website encourages us: Come to the first large gathering of Roman Catholic, Mainline Protestant, Evangelical, and other Christians seeking to explore this emergence and convergence together. You’ll […]

If you still think that this reimagined and repainted inclusive squishy social gospel of good deeds preached by postliberals like Rob Bell is something new; you’d better think again. Here’s J. Gresham Machen from his book Christianity & Liberalism written in 1923:  But if Christianity be directed toward another world; if it be a way […]

But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of godliness, although they […]

Unfortunately with no shortage of timid fellows in evangelical leadership positions today women like Ingrid Schlueter are really left with little choice than to continue to be “more man” than these other men. At Slice of Laodicea she tells it like it is regarding the Zondervan National Pastors Conference 2009. For example this year’s festival […]

Combining a couple of posts from Christian Research Network, which is an outreach of Apprising Ministries: Here is Marcus Borg speaking about his view of the Bible. After watching this video, we strongly advise that you read Chris Rosebrough’s excellent apologetic article entitled “The Greatest Expert on the Scriptures Who Ever Lived And His View […]