I did not send these prophets, yet they have run with their message; I did not speak to them, yet they have prophesied. But if they had stood in My Council, they would have proclaimed My Words to My people and would have turned them from their evil ways and from their evil deeds. (Jeremiah […]

They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them. (1 John 4:5) Withholding The Truth And Leaving People In Their Sin “Joel Osteen’s Still the Name Leaders Know“, a September 5, 2008 puff piece on Joel Osteen from The Washington Times (TWT) we are reminded that he’s: pastor of […]

Surveying the rising ecumenical spirit found in much of the American Christian Church and its love affair with man-centered church growth methods, there is much reason for concern that the Protestant reforms of evangelicalism are not so subtly being reversed in order to find stronger fellowship with the Roman Catholic Church. But is this drift […]

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God… And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth… No one has ever seen God; the only God, […]

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) A Quaker Mystic Is Now Teaching Us Proper Protestant Biblical Spirituality? Apprising Ministries has been warning you that Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster is hands down the leading proponent […]

Unless you have been living on another planet you have no doubt heard of or have seen America’s smiling pastor Joel Osteen of Lakewood Church, which also happens to be one of the largest professing evangelical Christian congregations in the world. What needs to be understood here is that the only way someone like this […]

I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach […]

“…take one or two others along, so that ‘every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.’ ” (Matthew 18:16) The Murky Mystic Shadows Of Spurious Spiritual Formation Looms Closer To You In a court of law it is a common occurrence for trial lawyers to bring in expert witnesses from specialized fields […]

At Apprising Ministries you will likely hear me talking more about the new spirituality which has now slithered its way deep into postevangelicalism from its den in the Emerging Church. The fact is this neopagan Gnostic spirituality is most pointedly on display in the misguided mysticism of the Emergent Church with its reimagined postliberal theology. […]

The Lord be praised that He has seen fit to open the door for Apprising Ministries to have become one of the leading voices against the postliberal cult of the Emergent Church. Because of the issue with Richard Abanes, which blew up the original AM website, as God allows time I plan to fix the resulting myriad broken links and […]