As pointed out in the Apprising Ministries post Emergence Pastor Rob Bell To Have Friend Peter Rollins In Conference this July pastor Rob Bell, the Elvis of Emergence, will be featuring his “friend” Peter Rollins in Bell’s upcoming pastors conference. In fact, Bell refers to Rollins as “one of the freshest voices” that he’s heard in this Emergence rebellion against Sola Scriptura, whose basic [...]

See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ. (Colossians 2:8) Don’t Believe Everything You Read In Books From Authors Of Emergence Christianity In the segment below from Fighting for the Faith Chris Rosebrough, of [...]

Interesting how the following words circa 1960 from A.W. Tozer actually fit quite well concerning the so-called new reformation of Emergence Christianity and its rebellion against Sola Scriptura: (For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.) (Acts 17:21) The temptation to [...]

[P]ierced through, and there accompanies this thought usually that of a piercing through unto death. Perhaps there is also included the idea of a violent death. The thought is that because we had transgressed, he was pierced through unto the death. The parallel expression, crushed because of our iniquities, means that because we had done [...]

You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. [...]

Ingrid Schlueter has the sordid sad details at Slice of Laodicea: The “evangelist” who made his name kicking a cancer patient in the stomach and boasting of kicking an elderly women in the face with his biker boots left the center ring of the Pentecostal circus after refusing to reconcile with his wife because of [...]

At the ouset we do wish to ask your forgiveness for my not feeling up to being able to personally answer everyone who has written Apprising Ministries lately. Please know that Issues relating to health remain a concern for me and they are still slowing me considerably. Thankfully, at the same time, there does seem [...]

Apprising Ministries points you to this video clip where Bill Gaither promotes the upcoming Family Fest in the Smokies: You are invited to join Bill & Gloria Gaither along with a great group of their friends for Family Fest in the Smokies. The event, which will take place May 22-24, 2009 at the Gatlinburg Convention [...]

By John Lanagan My Word Like Fire  Yet I have sent you all My servants the prophets, again and again, saying, “Oh, do not do this abominable thing which I hate.” (Jeremiah 44:4) Concern about The Shack, the novel by Paul Young, has skyrocketed since revelation of the author’s denial of the substitutionary Atonement of [...]

The primary task of the Church is not to educate man, is not to heal him physically or psychologically…. I will go further; it is not even to make him good. These are things that accompany salvation; and when the Church performs her true task she does incidentally educate men and give them knowledge and [...]