Apprising Ministries correspondent Christine Pack of Sola Sisters tells us of her interview today on the Crosstalk radio program of Ingrid Schlueter today: During the show, I briefly went over my own testimony of being mercifully saved out of New Age Spirituality (also called New Spirituality), only to find that the same mysticism I had once practiced was now […]

See also: SBC’S LIFEWAY HIGHLIGHTS ‘TRANSFORMATIONAL CHURCH’ A GOOD REASON FOR A MASS EXODUS FROM EVANGELICALISM…OR TO RECAPTURE ITS ORIGINAL MEANING WHY EVANGELICALISM IS FAILING A NEW GENERATION, AS IS THE EMERGING CHURCH CURIOUS ASSOCIATIONS ED STETZER, DAN KIMBALL, AND TIM KELLER MISSIONSHIFT DR. JOHN PIPER AND UNANSWERED QUESTIONS MARK DRISCOLL AND NEO-REFORMED NEW CALVINIST […]

Townhall is carring a piece today by Micah Carter of Baptist Press, which is a pretty good microcosm of the state of the man-centered church visible today: LifeWay Christian Resources set forth a theme of hope in its annual report to the Southern Baptist Convention as president and CEO Thom Rainer highlighted the “Transformational Church” […]

Yesterday, partly in jest, I pointed you to Missional Engagement where we’re told in official church-planting language, which mildly resembles English: Missional Engagement is defined as the continuum of intentional, on-going, Spirit-led, engagement by an individual Christ-follower and/or collective Christ-followers towards a specific person and/or people group for the purpose of demonstrating and declaring the Gospel. Measuring […]

Apprising Ministries now brings you a follow up to Questions Concerning Dr. John Piper where I told you that when Dr. Piper made the ill-advised decision to invite Leadership Network’s propped-up Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren to DG 2010 as a keynote speaker it set off a rippling effect where people, and not merely discernment ministries, have started to look a little closer at his theology, educational background, and associations; e.g. […]

The Lord chose to raise up Apprising Ministries as an online apologetics and discernment work; as such, it’s a large part on my mission here to cover trends developing within the church visible. Unfortunately we live in a time where, in my opinion, a tsunami of apostasy—likely driven by 1 Peter 4:17  judgments—is rapidly heading toward the mainstream of, largely […]

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? (1 Corinthians 5:6) A Lump Of Mystic Leaven Is Rising Apprising Ministries picks up where we left off in Rick Warren Saddleback Church, And Spiritual Disciplines, which began in Steve Gladen, Saddleback Church Small Groups, And Quaker Mystic Spirituality, where I […]

For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. (Galatians 5:1) Creating Your Own Way To Worship God Apprising Ministries has shared some concern about this New Calvinism as expressed e.g. by Matt Chandler and particularly Mark Driscoll, founder of Acts 29 Network, in recent posts such as […]

See also: N.T. WRIGHT ON HOMEBREWED CHRISTIANITY N.T. WRIGHT SPEAKING AT REDEEMER NYC OF TIM KELLER INTRODUCTION TO THE NEW PERSPECTIVE(S) ON PAUL  THE NEW PERSPECTIVE ON PAUL—PART 1 THE NEW PERSPECTIVE ON PAUL—PART 2 THE NEW PERSPECTIVE ON PAUL—PART 3 A GOOD REASON FOR A MASS EXODUS FROM EVANGELICALISM…OR TO RECAPTURE ITS ORIGINAL MEANING

Apprising Ministries has mentioned the Homebrewed Christianity podcast and Tripp Fuller, collaborator and disciple of progressive/process theologian Dr. Philip Clayton, in posts such as The Emerging Church And Progressive Christian Theology After Google and Tony Jones And Tripp Fuller On Theology After Google. Fuller’s co-host is Chad Crawford, whom I’m informed tweeted a bit ago: Our NT Wright interview […]