Since we came online at the end of August 2005 as one of the pioneers in the field of Internet apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries has been documenting The Falling Away Of The Evangelical Church. I’ve shown you that indicative of this growing apostasy is the increasing acceptance of Word Faith heretics as mainstream evangelicals, e.g.Cindy Trimm Receives […]

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 to these two disciplines […]

By Christian Research Network correspondent Mike Ratilff of Possessing the Treasure This is a repost of an original article on Possessing the Treasure 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect. (Romans […]

By Jon Cardwell, pastor of Sovereign Grace Baptist Church in Anniston, Alabama “Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: who knowing the judgment of God, that […]

We march to heaven on two feet. The one foot is called `repentance’ and the other foot is called `faith.’ Because I believe I repent about a certain sin, habit or attitude. Because I repent I return to learn more for my faith. My faith leads me to do more repentance. Left, right, left, right–one […]

How much stronger do you believe the professing Christian church would become if its pet cult of celebrity megapastors stopped using narcigesis, and trying to read you and themselves into the Bible? What do you think would happen if their idolatrous wannabe prophet-pastors stopped emulating them and instead started exegeting the Bible texts instead of their hero’s […]

Let me know why you contend against me. (Job 10:2) Perhaps, weary soul, the Lord is doing this to develop your graces. There are some of your graces that would never be discovered if it were not for your trials. Do you not know that your faith never looks as good in summer as it […]

Apprising Ministries reminds you that people will sometimes come up to you and announce: “Well, I’ve got good news, and I’ve got bad news.” Many times, the receiver of that initial report will opt to be told the bad news first, which I’ll share with you now through this devotion from Charles Spurgeon. Afterward, I will […]

By Jon Cardwell, pastor of Sovereign Grace Baptist Church in Anniston, Alabama “Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.” —Romans 1:22, 23 God is infinite and unchangeable and therefore His glory, itself, cannot […]

I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth: And in Jesus Christ his only Son, our Lord; who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried; he descended into hell; the third day he rose again from the dead; […]