Category: Features

DALLAS THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY FACULTY RECOMMENDS HENRY NOUWEN WITH HIS CONTEMPLATIVE PRAYER »

Apprising Ministries has been tracking the influx of corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM), which arrived inside the wall of the mainstream of evangelicalism within the Trojan Horse of the Emerging Church. In our 6+ years along the Internet Front I’ve observed CSM a la neo-Gnostics like Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster and his spiritual twin Dallas Willard slithering deeply into the church. Here’s a case in [...]

LOUIE GIGLIO TO PREACH AT JOEL OSTEEN’S LAKEWOOD CHURCH »

By Christian Research Network Associate Editor Erin Benziger of Do Not Be Surprised… This is a repost of an original article on Do Not Be Surprised… America’s largest and fastest growing “church,” Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, often finds itself with guest speakers in the pulpit. With pastors Joel and Victoria Osteen traveling often for their own [...]

JOHN PIPER RECOMMENDS G.K. CHESTERTON’S ORTHODOXY AND MYSTICISM? »

This was brought to my attention today at Apprising Ministries by Christian Research Network Contributor Christine Pack of Sola Sisters. I find this may 28, 2008 post to be a rather odd one by the New Calvinist mentor. In How A Roman Catholic Anti-Calvinist Can Serve Today’s Poet-Calvinists Dr. Piper writes: May 29 is G. K. Chesterton’s 134th [...]

TEN MINUTES WITH JOHN MACARTHUR »

Christian Research Network is a sister work of Apprising Ministries. Today CRN Associate Editor Erin Benziger of Do Not Be Surprised… brings to our attention her recent interview with Dr. John MacArthur: If you were granted ten minutes to speak with and interview John MacArthur, what would you ask? Would you inquire about the state of the church, or [...]

T.D. JAKES’ WORD FAITH PASTORS AND LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE 2012 »

Since we came online at the end of August 2005 as a pioneer in the field of Internet apologetics and discernment works Apprising Ministries has, sadly, been documenting The Falling Away Of The Evangelical Church. Among other things, I also monitor trends in the visible church from this outpost where the Net is moving ahead of the [...]

THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH HASN’T CHANGED ITS CONDEMNATION OF THE GOSPEL »

Apprising Ministries will show you in this piece that the subtitle would be: Nor can she; not without admitting her popes are but fallible men, not vicars of Christ, and that her dogma asseverated at the Council of Trent was wrong. I have already covered this further in Has The Roman Catholic Church Really Changed? Here I’m going to point [...]

DON’T BE FOOLED BY DELUDED DECEIVERS »

Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who [...]

MARK DRISCOLL PROMOTING WORD FAITH TEACHER BRIAN HOUSTON? »

By Christian Research Network Associate Editor Erin Benziger of Do Not Be Surprised… This is a repost of an original article on Do Not Be Surprised… If you live in or near Seattle, Mark Driscoll thinks you should visit The City Church, pastored by Judah Smith and his wife, Chelsea. Why [did Driscoll want us to] visit [that] [...]

ERIC DYKSTRA DEMONSTRATES SEEKER DRIVEN PASTOR’S LACK OF REVERANCE »

Apprising Ministries has often talked about the awful consequences of embracing the man-centered Church Growth Movement which slithered out from the spiritual black hole known as Fuller Theological Seminary. From about the mid-70′s on, as the CGM poisoned more and more of mainstream evangelicalism, perhaps its most heinous effect has been the rise of the [...]

KAY WARREN PREACHES SUNDAY SERVICES AT SADDLEBACK CHURCH »

Christian Research Network is a sister work of Apprising Ministries. Today CRN Associate Editor Erin Benziger of Do Not Be Surprised… brings to our attention an odd occurrence recently at Saddleback Church where Kay Warren, wife of SBC megapastor Rick Warren functioned in the role as teaching elder: The Bible is not ambiguous in describing the necessary qualifications and [...]

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