A holy man will strive to be like our Lord Jesus Christ. He will not only live the life of faith in Him, and draw from Him all his daily peace and strength, but he will also labour to have the mind that was in Him, and to be “conformed to His image” (Rom. 8:29). [...]

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. (1 Corinthians 6:9-10) A Practicing Homosexual Overseeing Episcopal [...]

By Apprising Ministries correspondent Chrystal Whitt of Slaughter of the Sheep There are a lot of charismatic followers and defenders out there who are calling solid, Bible-based, discerning Christians “heresy hunters.”  The people being targeted with this label (such people as  Ingrid Schlueter, Bud Press, Ken Silva, Mike Oppenheimer, Sandy Simpson, Justin Peters, and even little old insignificant me) [...]

   But this people has a stubborn and rebellious heart; they have turned aside and gone away. They do not say in their hearts, ‘Let us fear the Lord our God.’ (Jeremiah 5:23-24) Pretending To Be Christians Even Though They Don’t Believe What Christians Believe Apprising Ministries has told you e.g. in Jay Bakker Reflects The [...]

As part of my online apologetics and discernment work here at Apprising Ministries, in pieces like John Piper On Rick Warren and Rick Warren, Dr. Destiny, And Dr. Cindy Trimm, I’ve been documenting for you some of the recent activity of Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren of the highly influential Saddleback Church. It all begins when Dr. John Piper made the dubious [...]

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Hear the word that the Lord speaks to you, O house of Israel. Thus says the Lord: “Learn not the way of the nations, nor be dismayed at the signs of the heavens because the nations are dismayed at them, for the customs of the peoples are vanity. A tree from the forest is cut down [...]

Godly sorrow worketh repentance. (2 Corinthians 7:10) Genuine, spiritual mourning for sin is the work of the Spirit of God. Repentance is too choice a flower to grow in nature’s garden. Pearls grow naturally in oysters, but penitence never shows itself in sinners except divine grace works it in them. If thou hast one particle of real hatred for sin, [...]

[M]odern evangelism begins with, “God loves you and wants to make you happy.” Read the literature of the user-friendly movement and you’ll notice a preoccupation with conveying every message in a positive tone… [But] there is no way to synthesize the truth about God’s wrath with a positive-only presentation of the gospel. There is no [...]

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. And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed. And in [...]