There are so many who contact us today who are not able to find a good church to attend. And as you can see from this short Apprising Ministries piece Good Churches Hard to Find World-Wide the problem is hardly in this country alone. Bob DeWaay, pastor Twin City Fellowship of Saint Louis Park, MN has some great resources which will at […]

Books are being written on the topic of Paul and the law faster than anyone can read them. The books are often very detailed, with redefined words, new jargon, and totally foreign approaches to Pauline theology which leave even seasoned theologians baffled. So what or whose NP view/views of Paul and the law should be […]

In an email published with permission a reader of Apprising Ministries writes in to ask: Are you familiar with the New Perspective on Paul? In Richard Foster and Contemplative Mysticism: A Powerful Ecumenical Bond you referenced the website Bible Study Notes which had an article under the “Categories” section titled Pauline Gospel. When reading articles on a new site, it […]

A landslide of writings from the viewpoint of the New Perspective on Paul (NPP) are like boulders and debris that have littered the road leading to an accurate understanding of salvation. However, in spite of the massive amount of literature aimed at destroying two millennia of clarity regarding the relationships of works, righteousness, faith, and […]

Recent decades have witnessed a change in views of Pauline theology. A growing number of evangelicals have endorsed a view called the New Perspective on Paul (NPP) which significantly departs from the Reformation emphasis on justification by faith alone. The NPP has followed in the path of historical criticism’s rejection of an orthodox view of […]

Because of its views on Tradition Rome also rejects most of the great attributes of canonical Scripture which Protestantism holds in the highest esteem, namely, Scripture’s self-canonization, its inerrancy, its necessity, its self-attestation, its sufficiency, its perspicuity, and its finality. So historic Protestantism and Roman Catholicism do not share the same Bible, either extensively as […]

Do not quench the Spirit; do not despise prophetic utterances. But examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good. (1 Thessalonians 5:21, NASB) Can You Hear The Voice of The Spirit? Apprising Ministries is pleased to bring you the following godly and prophetic insight from James Montgomery Boice and Philip Graham Ryken. Herein […]

In the Apprising Ministries article Origin of Contemplative/Centering Prayer I point you to Emergent Church anti-theologian Tony Jones who introduces you to John Cassian, who is the father of the man-centered compromise which has come to be known as semi-pelagianism: Like the Jesus Prayer, Centering Prayer grew out of the reflections and writings of the […]

In the August 2007 article “What Did Paul Really Mean?”, which concerns this counterfeit view of the theology of the Apostle Paul Christianity Entropy Today magazine we read: For nearly 30 years, a number of theologians have argued for a “new perspective” on the apostle Paul and his doctrine of justification. Advocates of this approach […]