Like the hireling we must fulfill our day, then at evening we shall have our penny. Too many Christians look for a reward for their labors, and if they meet with success, they begin doting upon it as though they had received their recompense. Like the disciples who returned saying, “Lord, even the devils are […]

Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? (1 Corinthians 5:6) From Adding It Through These Past Few Years Contemporary Evangelicalism Is Full Of Leaven Being in online apologetics and discernment work along the Internet front Apprising Ministries has pointed out that a part of our labor in the Lord is the documenting of the painfully […]

Audience member: My wife and I have two wonderful sons and two daughters. And one son’s at Southern Seminary and he’s kind of mildly, you know, thinking there’s good in the seeker-friendly movement—some of it—and my other son’s totally hostile to it, and I’m caught in the middle.  And I was talking to somebody who is very […]

The Attractional Megachurch BibleAuthorized Abridged Version 1.0By Elousia!  The Official MetaNarrative for the Future Church! It is no longer necessary to consider the opinions of missiologists and linguists concerning the proper translation of certain biblical passages. The Attractional Megachurch Bible is the new approved version by popular consent. The AMB version contains stories only—stories that […]

Apprising Ministries has been warning about, and documenting, the sad slide of largely pretending to be Protestant evangelicalism into becoming what I’ve referred to as The Ecumenical Church Of Deceit (ECoD); and much of the current sorry state of the church visible can be traced back through to the semi-pelagian (at best) man-centered Church Growth Movement birthed out of Fuller […]

By Dr. Orrel Steincamp, republished with permission Have you ever heard of “panentheism”? It sounds a lot like pantheism but there are those two additional letters “en” inserted after “pan.” The word broken into its constitute parts is pan=all, en= in, and theos= God. Panentheism is the belief the universe is contained within God and […]

By Apprising Ministries special correspondent Bob DeWaay In February 2008, Christianity Today ran a glowing cover story about Evangelicalism’s recent embrace of medieval Roman Catholic mysticism entitled The Future lies in the Past.1 The article traced the beginning of the movement as follows: “The movement seems to have exploded in a 24-month period in 1977-1978, which saw the publication of Richard […]

The following by Dr. Gary Gilley, pastor of Southern View Chapel, is republished at Apprising Ministries with permission: (April/May 2012 – Volume 18, Issue 2) Of all the spiritual disciplines the Spiritual Formation Movement promotes, none is more important than prayer and the intake of God’s Word. On the surface we would expect little resistance […]

“What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray?” (Matthew 18:12) This New Downgrade Today Creates No Controversy Apprising Ministries has been warning about, and documenting, the […]

The critics of online apologetics and discernment works such as Apprising Ministries are under the mistaken impression that someone like myself goes “looking for” these issues I’ve been covering these past 6 years as Jesus has built this ministry of His Gospel. No, they couldn’t be more wrong. What usually happens is I’ll receive an email […]