[A] new kind of modernism is pushing Christians onto the down-grade. Why is it that biblical Christianity in modern times has been so vulnerable to doctrinal compromise and worldly influence? A fascinating historical account of the fundamentalist/evangelical movement in microcosm is found in Reforming Fundamentalism: Fuller Seminary and the New Evangelicalism, by George Marsden. Tracing […]

“Religious leadership must end its intellectual and imaginative failure to think through what it is doing in the light of the new emerging cosmology, which is hospitable to spirit-matter theories and mindbody experiences.” Leonard Sweet[1] Today [June 1] is the launching of a new book, co-authored by Leonard Sweet and Frank Viola. This marks the open […]

The following Critical Issues Commentary by Christian apologist Bob DeWaay and is republished at Apprising Ministries with permission: “So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God’s household, having been built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the […]

“How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?” (Matthew 18:12, KJV) This New Downgrade Today Creates No Controversy Apprising Ministries has been warning about, and documenting, the […]

That’s the opinion of pastor Michael Newnham aka “Phoenix Preacher” of my labor in Lord here at Apprising Ministries. However, the one who needs to repent of his shame would appear to be pastor Newnham himself who says of me: Ken Silva has responded from behind the safety of his no comments allowed blog… Here we […]

The following by Dr. Gary Gilley, pastor of Southern View Chapel, is republished at Apprising Ministries with permission: In the NPP, justification has nothing to do with salvation and everything to do with the church, or community. Declaring that the evangelical church has misread Galatians from ancient times, Wright assures us that he and his comrades have discovered what Paul […]

The following by Dr. Gary Gilley, pastor of Southern View Chapel, is republished at Apprising Ministries with permission: In part one of our series on the New Perspective on Paul, we examined the origins and surveyed its basic teachings. We concluded that introduction by stating that the NPP bases most of its theological views on its understanding of the rabbinical […]

The following by Dr. Gary Gilley, pastor of Southern View Chapel, is republished at Apprising Ministries with permission: McLaren continues to redefine the Christian faith in this latest effort, which follows up his book Everything Must Change.  Under McLaren’s pen Christianity as defined in the Bible is now totally unrecognizable.  Without question McLaren has walked away from biblical Christianity, so […]

“You will know them by their fruits.” (Matthew 7:16, NASB)  Rotten Progressive Christianity As a pastor-teacher, I offer this here at Apprising Ministries as a real good look at the fruit being produced by the updated Progressive Christianity being spread by the neo-liberal cult of the Emerging Church with its de-formation of the Christian faith called Emergence Christianity. This is the new […]

Apprising Ministries has been giving you peeks e.g. in pieces like Callid Keefe-Perry, Ken Silva, And Theology After Google and The Emerging Church Pushing Progressive Theology In Google Era at the new kind of Progressive Christianity—Liberalism 2.0—now being cobbled together in Emerging Church. I also told you in Liberalism 2.0 The New Progressive Christian Theology that A New Kind […]