By now likely you know that Dr. John Piper made the dubious decision to feature Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren as the keynote speaker at the DG 2010 conference Think: The Life of the Mind & the Love of God. Afterward Apprising Ministries showed you what some of the finest writers in online apologetics and discernment ministry had to say […]

It’s no secret that the online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries is a leading critic of Rick Warren of the highly influential Saddleback Church who, like me, is a pastor within the Southern Baptist Convention. One of my writers over at Christian Research Network made me aware today of the following tweet, which would appear to be from […]

Apprising Ministries has been among the online apologetics and discernment ministries keeping you up to speed on Warrengate. This all began when Dr. John Piper made the dubious decision to make Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren the keynote speaker at the recently concluded DG 2010 conference Think: The Life of the Mind & the Love of God. In the initial aftermath, it seems […]

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. (2 Timothy 4:3-4) Discerning By Niceness By carrying posts like Desiring God Selling Bible Study […]

The following Critical Issues Commentary by Bob DeWaay, pastor of Twin City Fellowship, is republished at Apprising Ministries with permission:    “He is also head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the first-born from the dead; so that He Himself might come to have first place in everything” (Colossians 1:18) Several months […]

By AM correspondent Daniel Neades of Better Than Sacrifice Much of modern evangelicalism seems to be fixated upon the idea that we can only progress as individual Christians and the church if we are pursing a dream or vision. This tendency is epitomized in these two claims: Nothing happens till somebody starts dreaming. What we […]

By Apprising Ministries correspondent Christine Pack of Sola Sisters The Desiring God 2010 National Conference is now underway at the Minneapolis Convention Center in Minneapolis, MN.  The Desiring God conferences that John Piper hosts annually are known for bringing together some of the best and brightest thinkers, teacher and pastors in American Christianity.  The key […]

by Chris Rosebrough,  host of Fighting for the Faith on Pirate Christian Radio I was very disappointed to see that the Desiring God National Conference was selling Rick Warren’s Bible study method book. (Online source) It is clear from Rick Warren’s chronic Bible twisting in his sermons and his books that he only gives lip service to […]

 Apprising Ministries reminds you that, having been pronounced “doctrinal and sound” by Dr. John Piper, Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren is set to be a keynote speaker at the DG 2010 conference Think: The Life of the Mind & the Love of God beginning Friday. As an example of some of the Church Growth Movement wisdom Warren regularly dispenses I point you […]

Apprising Ministries has told you that Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren featured contemplative guru Peter Scazzero at Radicalis this past February at Saddleback Church. You might remember that in an email promoting that conference, Chat Live with Radicalis Speaker, Pete Scazzero, Wednesday, December 9 at 11 am pst, Warren told us: Pete, along with his […]