In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping. (2 Peter 2:3) Earth To Protestant Evangelicalism; Um, Have You Lost Your Mind!? While we don’t always agree with everything espoused the great preachers of old […]

Apprising Ministries is pleased to point you to the following book review by my friend Dr. Gary Gilley, pastor of Southern View Chapel in Springfield, IL. In addition Gilley also produces a fine series of ongoing articles called Think on These Things which deal with a wide range of important issues facing the Body of […]

The Mush God of Mystical “Illumination”: [Jesus] said, GOD IS LOVE — period. But there is more to the message of Jesus. He insisted that His Father is crazy with love, that God is a kooky God who can scarcely bear to be without us. (teacher of Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel, 171) […]

The following by Dr. Gary Gilley, pastor of Southern View Chapel, is republished at Apprising Ministries with permission: (April/May 2012 – Volume 18, Issue 2) Of all the spiritual disciplines the Spiritual Formation Movement promotes, none is more important than prayer and the intake of God’s Word. On the surface we would expect little resistance to these two disciplines […]

By Dr. Orrel Steincamp, republished with permission Have you ever heard of “panentheism”? It sounds a lot like pantheism but there are those two additional letters “en” inserted after “pan.” The word broken into its constitute parts is pan=all, en= in, and theos= God. Panentheism is the belief the universe is contained within God and […]

The following by Dr. Gary Gilley, pastor of Southern View Chapel, is republished at Apprising Ministries with permission: (April/May 2012 – Volume 18, Issue 2) Of all the spiritual disciplines the Spiritual Formation Movement promotes, none is more important than prayer and the intake of God’s Word. On the surface we would expect little resistance […]

The following by Dr. Gary Gilley, pastor of Southern View Chapel, is republished at Apprising Ministries with permission: (February/March 2012 – Volume 18, Issue 1) Almost everyone on the cutting edge of Christianity is talking about spiritual formation.  From books to magazine articles to sermons to seminary courses, spiritual formation is a hot topic.  What […]

by Amanda Bowers (Hears His Voice blog) Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. James 3:1 Dear Sisters in Christ, It is with regret and repentance in my heart that I am sending this letter to you. As you know […]

This New Downgrade No-Controversy continues and works like Apprising Ministries—helping to pioneer this field of online apologetics and discernment—becomes even more necessary because so many evangelical leaders are nearly spiritually comatose. Here I offer a bit of a follow-up to Matt Chandler And Curious Decisions, a participant in The Elephant Room (ER) along with fellow Gospel Coalition Council […]

By Apprising Ministries special correspondent Erin Benziger of Do Not Be Surprised… As was mentioned in the article Steven Furtick’s 12 Days of Revival, our favorite young celebrity pastor is planning a big event for next January. He intends to gather a group of speakers together in order to cause an “eruption” of God’s power […]