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” [...]

Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law. (Psalm 119:18) May You Open Our Eyes Lord I’ve been meaning to talk about this for some time now, but it seems good in the Lord to mention it here in this piece at Apprising Ministries to encourage your study of the Bible. [...]

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 [...]

 Only by looking to eternity past do we gain the proper perspective to fully grasp the magnitude of our salvation. Before the Creation of the world, before anything was brought into being, God already had His plan of salvation set in motion. Who would begin an enterprise as enormous as the Creation of the universe—and [...]

See also: ROB BELL, CHRISTIANITY TODAY, TWITTER, AND THE GOSPEL?! IS ROB BELL EVANGELICAL? ROB BELL IN A NUTSHELL: THE BIBLE RANK HERESY BEING PREACHED AT MHBC OF ROB BELL DID ROB BELL FORGET THE CROSS? ROB BELL ABSOLUTELY WRONG ABOUT SCRIPTURE THROUGH ROB BELL “THE GREAT ENLIGHTENED ONES” TELL US MAN HAS DIVINE GREATNESS [...]

But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. (2 Peter 2:1) It’s pretty obvious that if God had wanted us all to live in the false kind of [...]

A good post from Apprising Ministries correspondent Chrystal Whitt over at Slaughter of the Sheep, which begins: Have you ever noticed that when false prophets prophesy, they say that the things they are prophesying about will happen in a way “you have never seen before?”  Yet, there is no visible witness that their word has come [...]

 * You may spoil the gospel by substitution. You have only to withdraw from the eyes of the sinner the grand object which the Bible proposes to faith—Jesus Christ—and to substitute another object in His place—and the mischief is done. * You may spoil the gospel by addition. You have only to add to Christ, [...]

Apprising Ministries now brings you a follow up to Questions Concerning Dr. John Piper where I told you that when Dr. Piper made the ill-advised decision to invite Leadership Network’s propped-up Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren to DG 2010 as a keynote speaker it set off a rippling effect where people, and not merely discernment ministries, have started to look a little closer at his theology, educational background, and associations; e.g. [...]

The Lord chose to raise up Apprising Ministries as an online apologetics and discernment work; as such, it’s a large part on my mission here to cover trends developing within the church visible. Unfortunately we live in a time where, in my opinion, a tsunami of apostasy—likely driven by 1 Peter 4:17  judgments—is rapidly heading toward the mainstream of, largely [...]