The following by Dr. Gary Gilley, pastor of Southern View Chapel, is republished at Apprising Ministries with permission: With such interpretations swirling around Piper’s teachings I was most happy to discover his book When I Don’t Desire God, How to Fight for Joy. The title implies that Piper would carefully address one of the thorniest [...]

But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that [...]

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? (1 Corinthians 5:6) A Lump Of Mystic Leaven Is Rising Apprising Ministries picks up where we left off in Rick Warren Saddleback Church, And Spiritual Disciplines, which began in Steve Gladen, Saddleback Church Small Groups, And Quaker Mystic Spirituality, where I [...]

“Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few. Beware of false prophets, who come to [...]

Apprising Ministries correspondent Christine Pack of Sola Sisters shows you, again, in her post Saddleback Promotes “Christianized” Mantra Meditation what I first showed you e.g. in Southern Baptist Pastor Rick Warren And Saddleback Church Openly Recommend Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism. Here we’ll see another example of it with Steve Gladen, who’s “now the Pastor of Small Groups at [the] Saddleback Church” [1] of Purpose [...]

God has not left us to fish around in the world of spirits and subjective experiences to know Him and speak to Him. God send His Son, who pre-existed as God and with God, to be born of a virgin and live in history in the flesh. The apostles heard Him, touched Him and saw [...]

What is the whole papacy but a beautiful false front and a deceptively glittering holiness under which the wretched devil lies in hiding? The devil always desires to imitate God in this way. He cannot bear to observe God speaking. If he cannot prevent it or hinder God’s Word by force, he opposes it with [...]

By Apprising Ministries correspondent Christine Pack of Sola Sisters Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church website features two books by Quaker and mystic Richard Foster, today’s leading proponent of something known as “Spiritual Disciplines” or “Spiritual Formation.”  Also promoted are several other books focusing on the Spiritual Disciplines, which teach a practice that is nothing more than a “Christianized” version [...]

The online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries has been covering the rise of the sinfully ecumenical neo-liberal cult of the Emerging Church within mainstream squishy evanjellyfish.  As I explained in Emergent Church: A Diseased Tree the discernment ministry Herescope has some excellent articles that uncover the real truth about the actual beginnings of the Emergent Church through Leadership [...]

Because of these times in which we live, and due to the unbridled arrogance of this postmodern pagan nation to which Christ has sent us, it will require our Lord’s true ministers to approach our more public stance much like John the Baptist did. As you recall he wasn’t exactly the proto-typical ecumenical Purpose Driven/Seeker Driven Emerging [...]