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 5+ years as Jesus has built this ministry of His Gospel. They couldn’t be more wrong. What usually happens is I’ll receive an email or message […]

Thorns and snares are in the way of the crooked; whoever guards his soul will keep far from them. (Proverbs 22:5) Mysticism Will Only Spread Spiritual Deception Apprising Ministries has been warning you that evanjellyfish is only just beginning to pay a heavy price for its foolish embrace of the sinfully ecumenial Emerging Church aka Emergent Church; […]

By Apprising Ministries correspondent Mike Ratilff of Possessing the Treasure Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall. (2 Peter 1:10 ESV) Some “evangelical leaders” in our time will tell you that transformation is actually part of the gospel […]

“Religious leadership must end its intellectual and imaginative failure to think through what it is doing in the light of the new emerging cosmology, which is hospitable to spirit-matter theories and mindbody experiences.” Leonard Sweet[1] Today [June 1] is the launching of a new book, co-authored by Leonard Sweet and Frank Viola. This marks the open […]

See also: SBC’S LIFEWAY HIGHLIGHTS ‘TRANSFORMATIONAL CHURCH’ A GOOD REASON FOR A MASS EXODUS FROM EVANGELICALISM…OR TO RECAPTURE ITS ORIGINAL MEANING WHY EVANGELICALISM IS FAILING A NEW GENERATION, AS IS THE EMERGING CHURCH CURIOUS ASSOCIATIONS ED STETZER, DAN KIMBALL, AND TIM KELLER MISSIONSHIFT DR. JOHN PIPER AND UNANSWERED QUESTIONS MARK DRISCOLL AND NEO-REFORMED NEW CALVINIST […]

Townhall is carring a piece today by Micah Carter of Baptist Press, which is a pretty good microcosm of the state of the man-centered church visible today: LifeWay Christian Resources set forth a theme of hope in its annual report to the Southern Baptist Convention as president and CEO Thom Rainer highlighted the “Transformational Church” […]

Yesterday, partly in jest, I pointed you to Missional Engagement where we’re told in official church-planting language, which mildly resembles English: Missional Engagement is defined as the continuum of intentional, on-going, Spirit-led, engagement by an individual Christ-follower and/or collective Christ-followers towards a specific person and/or people group for the purpose of demonstrating and declaring the Gospel. Measuring […]

The following by Dr. Gary Gilley, pastor of Southern View Chapel, is republished at Apprising Ministries with permission:    Mysticism’s Inroads    Most evangelical Christians probably would not recognize themselves in the previous discussion of mysticism (as found in our last three papers), but there are subtle influences at work drawing believers in this direction even without […]

Here at Apprising Ministries I’m doing what I can, as but one man, to show you why it is that back in November of 2005 I told you the Emerging Church—as a developing neo-liberal cult—is following along the very same lines of what the late Dr. Walter Martin, a recognized expert in cults having their origin in the United […]

Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. (James 4:4, ESV) Attacking The Church Now For Favor With The World? Vice President of the Acts 29 Church Planting Network and lead pastor of The Journey, Darren Patrick wanted us […]