I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways are before thee. (Psalm 119:168) O that every Christian were altogether and evermore obedient to heavenly rule. As the planet revolves undeviatingly in its orbit, because with the law imposed upon it there has come forth a constraining and impelling force, so may we […]

Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.” (John 14:23) Sounding The Clarion Call To Biblically-Based Prayer As far back as 2009, in Apprising Ministries articles like Christian Soldiers Standing Up For Jesus?, I’ve been trying to bring […]

May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope. (Romans 15:13) The only reason we are living on earth is to help other people. Otherwise, it would be best if God choked us and let us die as […]

Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. (Ephesians 6:16) Faith is  a shield that you may use for warding off every kind of arrow, yea, even the fiery darts of the enemy. For this shield cannot be penetrated even by javelins of […]

As I begin this I’d like to say a quick thank you for your continued patience and support. We also have no doubt that your faithful prayer is being answered by God and having its intended effect. Unfortunately, circa 2004 much of mainstream evangelicalism would opt for an ill-fated embrace of the Church Growth Movement […]

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.  Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will behas not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be […]

Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with […]

Him that cometh to Me I will in no wise cast out. (John 6:37) No limit is set to the duration of this promise. It does not merely say, “I will not cast out a sinner at his first coming,” but, “I will in no wise cast out.” The original reads, “I will not, not cast […]

As a reader of Apprising Ministries, no doubt you’ll see that I often point you to teachings written by men who lived in the 1800’s of before. There’s a very simple reason; I’m a pastor who adhere’s to Biblical Christianity. Since the man-centered spiritual Trojan Horse of the neo-liberal cult of the Emerging Church was […]

I’ve been known here at Apprising Ministries to refer to the apostatizing evangelical community as evanjellyfish. I actually adapted that from what another minister had said in the 90’s. Well as you’re about to see from J.C. Ryle (1816-1900), we were quite late to the party: The consequences of this widespread dislike to distinct biblical doctrine are […]