And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. (2 Peter 2:3) Mysticism Is Now A Force Uniting Apostates Apprising Ministries is an online apologetics and discernment work which has specialized in analyzing current trends in the visible church, apprising you as to what they are, and informing you as to how you […]

Ingrid Schlueter has the sordid sad details at Slice of Laodicea: The “evangelist” who made his name kicking a cancer patient in the stomach and boasting of kicking an elderly women in the face with his biker boots left the center ring of the Pentecostal circus after refusing to reconcile with his wife because of […]

While Emergence Christianity tries to convince us that everything goes in the Christian Church, all the while attempting to swallow up the visible church, ol’ friend Bud Press of Christian Research Service has this timely warning as concerning: the hyper-Charismatic movement is growing, and has spent years trying to convince Christians that its “apostles,” prophets, teachers, evangelists, and revivalists are legitimate and a […]

We had to search high and low to find it; ok, so actually Apprising Ministries happened to stumble upon this over at Slaughter of the Sheep. But below you will actually see Word Faith pretending pastor Joel Osteen doing some solid exegesis. Unfortunately however, it’s not exegesis of the Bible. Ah no, here we witness pastor Osteen as he shares […]

The following is a vivid illustration of what I’m talking about in the Apprising Ministries  article Evangelicalism Powered By Man And Not By The Holy Spirit. From the Christian Wire we learn: Pastor Suzette Caldwell, Board Chair and President of The Prayer Institute and Associate Pastor of Windsor Village United Methodist Church, has been in demand […]

In her post Joel Osteen Hits Milwaukee at Slice of Laodicea Ingrid Schlueter tells us: Joel Osteen brought his show to our city last night. The reporter from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel talked to me longer than I expected, getting a handle on why I and others didn’t support America’s smiling preacher and his happy-talk […]

They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them. (1 John 4:5) Withholding The Truth And Leaving People In Their Sin “Joel Osteen’s Still the Name Leaders Know“, a September 5, 2008 puff piece on Joel Osteen from The Washington Times (TWT) we are reminded that he’s: pastor of […]

Unquestionably America’s “smiling pastor” Joel Osteen appears to be a very nice and sincere man. In the introduction to his latest book Become A Better You Osteen writes, “while I can’t guarantee that you will become rich and famous, I can assure you that if you follow [the seven keys within this book], you will […]

The following excerpts from Kenneth Copeland’s Believer’s Voice of Victory televsion broadcast come from my personal transcription of the 7/16/06 program. This message, “The Life is in Jesus,” was originally delivered at the “Branson Victory Campaign” in Branson, Missouri. In this piece you will see a sorry example of how a Christian should conduct himself, […]

But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord Who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves. Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute. In their greed these […]