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A CLOSER LOOK AT THE ALPHA COURSE AND WHETHER IT IS PERMISSIBLE TO JUDGE WHAT OTHER CHRISTIANS TEACH

By Daniel Neades of Better Than Sacrifice This is a repost of an original article on Better Than Sacrifice In this post: The responsibility of elders for sound doctrine; Do ordinary believers have the right to judge an elder’s doctrine?; Doesn’t Jesus tell us not to judge?; Doesn’t Paul tell us not to judge another’s servant?; Is […]

JOHN PIPER APPROVES OF THE ALPHA COURSE?

As an online apologetics and discernment ministry (OADM), during this time infected with the false philosophy of postmodernism, our work at Apprising Ministries is not only defending the historic orthodox Christan faith but also bringing to light the slide of the visible church into apostasy. In John Piper, Rick Warren & Foster-Willardism I reminded you that sadly, […]

THE ALPHA COURSE RECEIVES PRAISE FROM MOODY RADIO’S JANET PARSHALL

Christian Research Network is a sister work of Apprising Ministries. Here CRN Associate Editor Erin Benziger of Do Not Be Surprised… brings to our attention this dubious decision by Parshall. The Alpha Course is spiritually dangerous, which is becomes evident with it’s sinful ecumenicism: The Ecumenical Compromise Of The Alpha Course. Evangelical discernment continues to dwindle. Here is Parshall’s program discussed by […]

THE ECUMENICAL COMPROMISE OF THE ALPHA COURSE

Christian Research Network is a sister work of Apprising Ministries. Today CRN Associate Editor Erin Benziger of Do Not Be Surprised… gives us a good look at a false teaching that’s beginning to make a comeback: What is the meaning of life? This is the question that many seek to answer and that the internationally known Alpha Course allows people […]

CONSIDERATION FOR THE WEAKER CHRISTIANS

For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. (Galatians 5:13) A Corrupt Christian Message Produces Unregenerate “Christians” You may wonder why, as I continue to battle through many physical challenges, ((I have discussed these previously e.g. in Christ Our Life—Soon To […]

SBC’S THOM RAINER LISTS THE 20 MOST INFLUENTIAL EVANGELICALS

Now when the Pharisees gathered to [Jesus], with some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem, they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands that were defiled, that is, unwashed. (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands properly, holding to the tradition of the elders, and when they come […]

GREAT ANSWERS FROM A GREAT GOD

And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him: and they wept.  (Genesis 33:4) Jacob’s anguished prayer accomplished more than he dared to ask. He hadn’t expected so much comfort from God from his brother. All he had asked for was that his brother would leave him and […]

ON CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY AND CHARISMANIA

Apprising Ministries has been blessed to have been among the leading online apologetics and discernment ministries (OADM) who’re covering the very clear and present danger posed by the ongoing evangelical fascination with corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM). It’s important for you to remember here that CSM, which has been perpetrated throughout evangelicalism as so-called Spiritual Formation by Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster along with […]

NICKY GUMBEL INVITES VINEYARD UK FOUNDER ELEANOR MUMFORD, STEVEN FURTICK & BILL HYBELS TO LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE

By Christian Research Network Associate Editor Erin Benziger of Do Not Be Surprised… This is a repost of an original article on Do Not Be Surprised… Each year, Alpha Course director Nicky Gumbel hosts a leadership conference at his home church of Holy Trinity Brompton (HTB) in London. Well-known and charismatic leaders from various walks of life and differing […]

ON IMAGE-BEARERS OF GOD

By Christian Research Network contributor Justin Edwards of airō This is a repost of an original article on airo: God created man in His own image (Genesis 1:26-27, 5:1, 9:6). Man defiled the image of God in man in which he was created (Genesis 3; Romans 5). God became man through the eternal Son, who is the image of God, perfectly reflecting […]