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GEORGE ELERICK, POSTMODERNISM, AND IRRATIONAL PHILOSOPHY

See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ. (Colossians 2:8, ESV) Postmodern Word Games Apprising Ministries is an online apologetics and discernment work specializing in analyzing current trends in the visible church apprising […]

TRANSFORMING CHRISTIANITY THROUGH EASTERN-STYLE MEDITATION

And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the LORD. And behold, at the entrance of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs to the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east, worshiping the sun toward the […]

DECEITFUL MYSTICISM

In recent posts such as Leonard Sweet, Frank Viola, And The Third Way and Root Of This New Downgrade here at Apprising Ministries I’ve been showing you how deeply the practice, and results, of Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) within the pretending to be Protestant squishy evanjellyfish community. And in Mark Driscoll And Neo-Reformed New Calvinist Contemplative Spirituality I’ve also shown you that […]

THE ROOTS AND FRUITS OF THE NEW APOSTOLIC REFORMATION

The following Critical Issues Commentary by Christian apologist Bob DeWaay and is republished at Apprising Ministries with permission: “So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God’s household, having been built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the […]

GOSPEL MORE IMPORTANT THAN AMERICA: RESPONSE TO JANET PORTER

A main function of the online apologetics and discernment work here at Apprising Ministries is to alert you to developing trends within the visible church. In that regard you may recall the recent post The Coalescing Of The Christian Right With Apostolic Dominionism, which was built around an in-depth and well-researched article at Herescope from my friend Dr. Orrel […]

ROOT OF THIS NEW DOWNGRADE

“How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?” (Matthew 18:12, KJV) This New Downgrade Today Creates No Controversy Apprising Ministries has been warning about, and documenting, the […]

MIKE MORRELL ON MATTHEW FOX, JOHN WIMBER, AND THE EMERGING CHURCH

Back in November of 2005 the online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries warned you about what is now a full blown cult of neo-liberalism operating within mainstream evangelicalism, the sinfully ecumenical Emerging Church. These past few years this EC has been busy forging together its new form of postmodern liberal theology, a Liberalism 2.0 […]

WHO'S THE ACCUSER OF THE BRETHREN AGAIN PHOENIX PREACHER?

In Phoenix Preacher Says “Enough” Of Alleged “ODMS” the other day I told you that pastor Michael Newnham aka Phoenix Preacher is angry that his friend, Emerging Church evangelical theologian Leonard Sweet has, we think, been “disinvited” to a conference which is to use a Calvary Chapel church’s facilities. And further pastor Newnham is especially disdainful of online apologetics and discernment […]

GOODBYE LAW OF NON-CONTRADICTION AND HELLO UNIVERSALIST CHRISTIAN PASTORS

Apprising Ministries has long been covering the rise of the sinfully ecumenical Emerging Church; now a full blown cult operating within mainstream evangelicalism with its new form of postmodern liberal theology, a Liberalism 2.0 which Emergent Church guru Brian McLaren begins laying out in his latest book A New Kind of Christianity. You may recall that in The Emerging Church Transform East Coast Apostasia-Palooza I told […]

CHRISTIAN RESEARCH SERVICE ON THE PROPHETIC MOVEMENT

Apprising Ministries has always been thankful for the kindness extended by Bud Press of the fine apologetics and discernment ministry Christian Research Service in his helping to open doors when this labor in the Lord went online in late August of 2005. As I pointed out in Compromise: The Church Must Change the Druckerite-driven emerging Ecumenical Church Of Deceit is lusting […]