UPDATE: STEPHEN VENABLE OUT OF LINGER CONFERENCE UPDATE: THE MASTER’S COLLEGE WITHDRAWS AS EXHIBITOR AT UPCOMING LINGER CONFERENCE UPDATE: JOHN PIPER AND LINGER CONFERENCE WITH IHOP’S STEPHEN VENABLE AND HIS CONTEMPLATIVE TEACHING One of the many areas of apostasy within evangelicalism that Apprising Ministries has been covering over the past two years or so is the increase of Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM), along […]

From time to time Apprising Ministries has covered issues touching on Calvary Chapel (CC) as a whole; particularly with its former leader, the late Chuck Smith. Unfortunately, in The Coming Roman Catholic Denomination And Chuck Smith Of Calvary Chapel, as a former Roman Catholic I had to show you his increasing sinful ecumenicism. And then on occasion I […]

The root of what we see all around us today as the world spins further out into decadence, and professing Christendom seems bent to follow it, is found in the Book of Romans: 5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the […]

In this excellent piece by G. Richard Fisher of Personal Freedom Outreach (PFO), which Apprising Ministries considers a top discernment work, he refers to the April 30, 1988 of the Houston Chronicle concerning Word Faith preacher John Hagee: The Houston newspaper then quoted Hagee’s own shocking words: “I’m not trying to convert the Jewish people to […]

By Larry Dixon, professor of theology at Columbia International University Seminary and School of Missions and author of “Farewell, Rob Bell”: A Biblical Response to Love Wins “Hell is Manhattan at rush hour!“, stated the occasional theologian Woody Allen.  No doubt his viewpoint has changed over the last year; perhaps he would now agree with […]

Northern Seminary (NS) in Lombard, IL tells us its an evangelical community, rooted in Baptist heritage and we read in its History:  By the second decade of the twentieth century, many evangelicals in the old Northern Baptist Convention (now the American Baptist Churches in the USA) were concerned about the spread of theological liberalism within the denomination… […]