Pride and arrogance and the way of evil and perverted speech I hate. (Proverbs 8:13) The Gospel Doesn’t Need To Be Adapted To Unbelievers Of Any Time Period Apprising Ministries has often told you about “contexualization,” i.e. attempting to make “the Gospel relevant” to a postmodern culture and a post-Christian nation. But, 1) the original liberals already […]

The following Critical Issues Commentary by Christian apologist Bob DeWaay and is republished at Apprising Ministries with permission: Earlier this year [2008] the International House of Prayer (IHOP) sponsored a conference in Kansas City entitled Passion for Jesus that was heavily promoted toward young people. The purpose of the conference was to “cultivate intimacy with Jesus.” […]

One of the current issues I’m trying to alert you to here at Apprising Ministries is an increasing charismania running along a parallel track with mainstream evangelicalism’s lust for corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM); and it becomes an especially deadly spiritual cocktail when imbibed together. For example, CSM and hyper-charismatic practices form the base for the spurious theology of the […]

So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith. (Galatians 6:10) By becoming doers of good, we are known as children of the good God. “Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God” (Matthew 5:9, KJV). A man is a […]

Apprising Ministries introduced you to the Linger Conference and Venable in posts like John Piper And Stephen Venable Of IHOP Together At Linger Conference and John Piper And Linger Conference With IHOP’S Stephen Venable And His Contemplative Teaching. Then later I informed you that The Master’s College Withdraws As Exhibitor At Upcoming Linger Conference with the following announcement: TMC has […]

Apprising Ministries has brought to your attention that within wider evangelicalism there does seem to be a mainstreaming of New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) false Apostle-ProphetMike Bickle ((http://bit.ly/JJSncx, accessed 1/23/14.)) and his spiritually corrupt International House of Prayer (IHOP). Now before you’re tempted to simply shrug off NAR luminaries like Bickle, and the IHOP movement birthed by him, […]

Apprising Ministries has been among those who have spent years continuing to pioneer a mission field of online apologetics and discernment ministry (OADM). A common fallacy way too often promoted concerning some of us involved in OADM is an alleged anger in our writings as we cover various issues. I can only speak for myself, but I can assure […]

UPDATE: STEPHEN VENABLE OUT OF LINGER CONFERENCE In recent pieces like John Piper And Stephen Venable Of IHOP Together At Linger Conference and Steven Venable Of IHOP, Linger Conference, And Todd Friel On IHOP here at Apprising Ministries I introduced you to this Linger Conference (LC) scheduled for February 14 and 15. LC is going to be put on by Watermark Community […]

UPDATE: THE MASTER’S COLLEGE WITHDRAWS AS EXHIBITOR AT UPCOMING LINGER CONFERENCE I begin by pointing out that this all started with the Apprising Ministries article John Piper And Stephen Venable Of IHOP Together At Linger Conference. Now I’m fully aware that today we’re in a New Downgrade No-Controversy, so I didn’t cover this expecting much reaction at all. […]

By Dr. Orrel Steincamp, The Plumbline Newsletter Archive When things get bad we groan. Sometimes a groan is audible, but at other times groaning is internal. In the last months, I have to confess that I learned to groan even audibly. In what seemed to me as a perfect storm, I succumbed to groaning. First it […]