For many years Apprising Ministries—one of the few online venues who would tell you the truth straight up—has tracked the sad decline of Rob Bell, the rock star pastor of the Emerging Church. You likely know that he’s resigned from Mars Hill Bible Church and turned it over to his good friend and fellow apostate [...]

I’ve told you before e.g. in Rob Bell Resources that this online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries has been sounding the alarm about the warped and toxic teachings of the Emerging Church rock star pastor Rob Bell for many years now. Today Bell tweeted: (Online source) If you didn’t know, I reminded you again in [...]

God be praised that He’s seen fit to place Apprising Ministries among the leading online apologetics and discernment works. This undeserved forum allows me to quickly alert the church visible to important issues it must face. One of which is the very rapid penetration of apostasy into the heart of the mainstream evangelical community—particularly in its younger [...]

Apprising Ministries continues to tell you the truth about an infestation of ne0-Gnostic corruption called Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM), which is now pandemic within mainstream evangelicalism through its foolish embrace of the sinfully ecumenical neo-liberal cult of the Emergent Church aka the Emerging Church with its quasi-universalism in a new version of postmodern Progressive Christian theology under their spiritual circus “big tent” of empty Emergence Christianity. For a couple of years now, [...]

First, it is necessary to understand what sola Scriptura does and does not assert. The Reformation principle of sola Scriptura has to do with the sufficiency of Scripture as our supreme authority in all spiritual matters. Sola Scriptura simply means that all truth necessary for our salvation and spiritual life is taught either explicitly or implicitly in [...]

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People say, ‘Do not be negative; let us be positive; let us just preach the simple gospel’. But the Bible is full of negatives, full of warnings, ever showing us these terrible possibilities. If you find in yourself a dislike of the warnings of the Scripture and of this negative teaching, it is obvious that [...]

This online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries has been blessed of Jesus to be used as one of His “go-to” ministries in the area of  the ne0-Gnostic corruption called Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM), which is now pandemic within mainstream evangelicalism through its foolish embrace of the sinfully ecumenical neo-liberal cult of the Emerging Church aka Emergent Church with its quasi-universalism in a [...]

The following by Dr. Gary Gilley, pastor of Southern View Chapel, is republished at Apprising Ministries with permission: Pietism & Subjective Christianity Balance. Is there anything more elusive? Most of us are constantly striving for balance, whether it is with our time, money, diet or relationships. If few of us are ever content that we [...]

The following by Dr. Gary Gilley, pastor of Southern View Chapel, is republished at Apprising Ministries with permission:    Mysticism’s Inroads    Most evangelical Christians probably would not recognize themselves in the previous discussion of mysticism (as found in our last three papers), but there are subtle influences at work drawing believers in this direction even without [...]