Republished with permission from Discernment-Ministries, Inc. in their Discernment Newsletter Vol. 21, Number 6 Nov/Dec 2010 By Sarah Leslie The following material was included in 3 separate presentations I made at Discernment conferences this Fall. The presentations were accompanied by clips from DVDs to illustrate the points. The basic outline of these talks is below. This […]

By Apprising Ministries correspondent Christine Pack of Sola Sisters  Author Anne Rice, best known for her Vampire Lestat chronicles which were popular in the 90s, rather famously “converted” to Christianity in 1998…which she has now publicly rejected. But did she really convert in the first place?   The truth is that Anne Rice grew up […]

Many who have embraced “the New Perspective on Paul” are also proposing a different slant on the doctrine of justification by faith. When the text of Scripture is interpreted in the new light, they say, Pauline support for the principle of sola fide [faith alone], the doctrine of imputation, and the distinction between law and […]

Apprising Ministries is a online apologetics and discernment labor in the Lord and part of my commission as pastor-teacher is to help make you aware of trends within the church visible. I wish I had better news but as I survey the horizon I see a tsunami of apostasy on the way; in large part […]

Apprising Ministries now brings you a segment from the April 1 edition of the Fighting for the Faith program of Christian apologist Chris Rosebrough on Pirate Christian Radio. In this program, much like those who would stick their head into a dumpster looking for edible scraps of food, you’ll hear people performing a spiritual version of this same fruitless […]

“Take heed what you hear” and read! More than forty years ago the saintly Adolph Saphir wrote, “I think the fewer books we read—the better. It is like times of cholera, when we should only drink filtered water.” What would he say if he were on earth today and glanced over the deadly poison sent […]

The PyroManiacs devote some space each weekend to highlights from The Spurgeon Archive. The following excerpt is from “Under Constraint,” a sermon preached Sunday morning 28 April 1878 at the Metropolitan Tabernacle in London: I have not much patience with a certain class of Christians nowadays who will hear anybody preach so long as they […]

Of old You founded the earth, And the heavens are the work of Your hands. Even they will perish, but You endure; And all of them will wear out like a garment; Like clothing You will change them and they will be changed. But You are the same, And Your years will not come to an end. (Psalm 102:25-27, NASB) […]

The Center for Action and Contemplation (CAC) wants you to mark March 20-22, 2009 on our calendars for the CAC sponsored Conversations, Convergence and Action (CCA). The CAC website encourages us: Come to the first large gathering of Roman Catholic, Mainline Protestant, Evangelical, and other Christians seeking to explore this emergence and convergence together. You’ll […]

In an email published with permission a reader of Apprising Ministries writes in to ask: Are you familiar with the New Perspective on Paul? In Richard Foster and Contemplative Mysticism: A Powerful Ecumenical Bond you referenced the website Bible Study Notes which had an article under the “Categories” section titled Pauline Gospel. When reading articles on a new site, it […]