Apprising Ministries points you to a short post by Steve Knight, who started the Emerging Church group TransFORM, called “A Queering of Evangelicalism”. Knight tells us about “the July/August 2010 issue of Tikkun magazine” wherein there’s an article entitled “Dismantling Hierarchy, Queering Society” by Andrea Smith, which he sees as containing an “interesting observation/comment about ‘the emergent movement.’” Knight also informs […]

For it is time for judgment to begin at the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God? (1 Peter 4:17) One Ignores God’s Word At Their Own Peril Here’s very good reason why in posts like Ex-Homosexual Friend Of Apprising […]

Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted. Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. (Galatians 6:1-2, ESV)  It’s Not Loving To Withhold Truth Todd Rhodes, a staff member of Leadership Network, put […]

There’s very good reason why in posts like Ex-Homosexual Friend Of Apprising Ministries I’ve been warning you here at Apprising Ministries  that there’s a very dark and threatening same-sex storm, right now, approaching hurricane force, and which is currently only slightly off the coast of your own local church. Briefly, as I said e.g. in Jay Bakker Reflects The Sad Condition Of The Visible Church, the […]

He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it. For there are many who are insubordinate, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision party. They must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole […]

The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. Certain persons, by swerving from these, have wandered away into vain discussion, desiring to be teachers of the law, without understanding either what they are saying or the things about which they make confident […]

Yet in like manner these people also, relying on their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme the glorious ones. (Jude 8, ESV) Such As These Are Hidden Reefs Within The Church Visible In the Apprising Ministries piece Rick Brentlinger Of Gay Christian 101 And Ken Silva I mentioned that Rick Brentlinger of Gay Christian 101, an unrepentant […]

That’s the headline from the report I cite from the pro-gay website Truth Wins Out: I’m sure this will surprise no one who’s involved in the country music world, as country music is much like Christian music, in that it’s full of closeted gay people.  But many country fans may be surprised to find out that […]

Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. (Jude 3, ESV) Jay Bakker Gets Ready For Prime Time Over this past year Apprising Ministries has been […]

preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. (2 Timothy 4:2, ESV)  Don’t Look Now But The Biblical Wheels Have Come Off  In the Apprising Ministries post Gay Christian Singer Jennifer Knapp Out On Larry King Live I reminded you that there is indeed a same-sex storm […]