A while back a reader of Apprising Ministries tipped me to the website of Grand Valley Baptist Association in Grand Junction, CO where Director of Missions Kent Shirley lists his Recommended Reading for Pastor & Staff. What I found there would lead me to write Southern Baptist Convention Embraces Gnostic Mysticism on 10/23/06.

There has been much discussion and blether around the internet regarding the sexual skandalon of former president of the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) Ted Haggard. Lots and lots of opinions and precious little of what the Bible actually says about how we should handle the issue of this man’s sin being publicly exposed by […]

Tim Brown over at Reformed Gadfly has weighed in on the sad situation with Ted Haggard. In his insightful post Ted Haggard: The Symptom Tim makes an excellent point and is telling tragic truth when he says that, “I’m sick and tired of being associated with a ‘Christianity’ that does not seem to care one […]

This is one of those stories where you see that not all the news is bad. While we are unquestionably in the throes of an apostasy blowing through the Church with the power of a tsunami, in this piece my friend Michael Miller of the Peoria Journal Star introduces us to the labor in Christ […]

As I continue my look at the vacuous doctrine of Rob Bell in this article I will demonstrate further his connection to the Emergent Church. There are those who would would why I would do so because Rob Bell makes no claim to be Emergent. But what Bell teaches is so right in line with […]

Recently on Slice of Laodicea my good friend and brother in arms Chris Pajak wrote a post called Imagination and God’s Future? This post itself is actually based on an article in Next-Wave Ezine by Len Hjalmarson. Pajak correctly points out that what Hjalmarson writes “is an excellent example of what happens when you relegate […]

One of the emerging Hollow Men and wolf in sheep’s clothing Guru Brian McLaren is set to bring the spiritual poison of the neo-liberal cult of the Emergent Church to Canada once again. Spiritual Director McLaren has been invited to be the featured speaker at the 2006 Conference on Evangelism sponsored by the Atlantic Baptist […]

I present this piece as a follow up to Rob Bell: “Bullhead” Guys as an illustration of just how conditioned people have become to defending these like emerging Hollow Men like Rob Bell who are themselves are neo-orthodox (at best) in their theology. True, Bell’s work is in general might be closer to the megachurches […]

This article is to help you understand the very real threat to the true Gospel of Jesus Christ that Living Spiritual Teacher Richard Foster brings through his corrupt teachings on Contemplative Spirituality. To fully do so, being that Foster himself is a member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), we must first shed some […]

In the satiric tradition of the Sacred Sandwich we take you back in time to the first century for our reimagined version of the Philippian jailer who awakens after a violent earthquake. As he shakes the sleep from his eyes he sees that the prisoner’s chains have come off and the cell doors have sprung […]