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… In mid-April, while many Christians earnestly scanned the Twitter stream and their favorite blogs for soundbites and one-liners from the Together for the Gospel (T4G) conference, another gathering was taking place several cities […]

Let the shadows pass and summarize the whole suggestiveness by declaring that our High Priest in His one offering for sin meets every aspect of human sin and deals with it. In this strange and wonderful economy of grace the offerings and the oil are provided by the Priest, forfeited life for life forfeit, spiritual power for spiritual death. […]

There is no shortage of perplexing realities in our world today, but counted among them must be the fact that many rather well informed people seem to be shocked that Christians believe the doctrines of Christianity. Over the weekend, Rep. Anthony Weiner announced that he will request a leave of absence from the House of […]

 For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough. (2 Corinthians 11:4) But Which Jesus Is It Whom You Claim […]

I first became interested in the issues of homosexuality in the early 1950’s when I was a graduate student at New York University centered in Greenwich Village in New York. It was in that particular area I came in contact with every conceivable kind of deviation from the norm, shall we say, and particularly there was […]

Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be […]

“These are the statutes and rules that you shall be careful to do in the land that the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess, all the days that you live on the earth. You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served their gods, […]

 An Apprising Ministries Exclusive: I have to take serious issue with the theology of this book.  In the introduction Sweet and Viola say: The historic Christian creeds are an expression of the need to answer Jesus’ “Who do you say I am?” question. But that “you say” is contextual. Each new generation, in every culture, […]

Apprising Ministries has recently told you about The Emerging Church TransFORM East Coast Apostasia-Palooza where the upgraded Emerging Church 2.0—seeker driven for the “counter-culture”— will share its newer, more clearly delineated, Progressive Christian theology with a gospel Christian apologist Chris Rosebrough has referred to as: Stick it to the Caesar man. It’s all kind of a reimagined bohemian hippie counter-culture deal I would see as I was […]

As a small companion piece to Brian McLaren And His New Emerging Progressive Theology here at Apprising Ministries I now point you to today’s Jesus, Reconsidered: Book Sparks Evangelical Debate by Barbara Bradley Hagerty religion correspondent for NPR. In my coverage of heretical Emerging Church guru Brian McLaren, I’ve told you that he’s really becoming the source of much obfuscation […]