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, ESV)  Clouding The Lens So You Can’t See  Here at Apprising Ministries I’m […]

But, dear friends, remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ foretold. They said to you, “In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires.” These are the men who divide you, who follow mere natural instincts and do not have the Spirit. (Jude 17-19) Christians Denying Christianity? […]

“I told you that you would die in your sins; if you do not believe that I am [the eternal God], you will indeed die in your sins.” (John 8:24, Greek) Christians Who Don’t Believe In Jesus? In the earlier Apprising Ministries piece Ken Silva Answers Philip Clayton I told you that in his post SHOULD the […]

…the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God. (1 Corinthians 10:20) Encouraging Idolatry Earlier Apprising Ministries brought to your attention a recent post by Tony Jones, the progressive theologian in residence at the Emerging Church of his progressive universalist pastor Doug Pagitt; it was called The Future of Progressive Theology and God’s Future, and in it Jones shares with […]

Apprising Ministries has been giving you peeks e.g. in pieces like Callid Keefe-Perry, Ken Silva, And Theology After Google and The Emerging Church Pushing Progressive Theology In Google Era at the new kind of Progressive Christianity—Liberalism 2.0—now being cobbled together in Emerging Church. I also told you in Liberalism 2.0 The New Progressive Christian Theology that A New Kind […]

In pieces like The Emerging Church Pushing Progressive Theology In Google Era and Ken Silva Answers Philip Clayton you can see Apprising Ministries has come up on the radar screen in covering, and being critical of, a recent Emerging Church progressive theology heresy-fest called Theology After Google (TAG). TAG was put on by Dr. Philip Clayton as a way […]

Dear friends, although I was very eager to write to you about the salvation we share, I felt I had to write and urge you to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to the saints. (Jude 3) Bad News Yesterday Christian Post ran Emergent Christians Mull Theology in Google Era, a […]

I have previously shown you that at his personal blog, specifically in the article Apologetics in Action, Southern Baptist minister Dallas Willard—spiritual twin of Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster—tells us, “It is possible for someone who does not know Jesus to be saved.” The reasons behind Willard’s speculation are first of all, his longtime […]

Even from your own number men will arise and distort the truth in order to draw away disciples after them. (Acts 20:30) Sincerely Wrong, Is Still Wrong Apprising Ministries has been pointing out in recent posts such as The Non-Gospel Of The Emerging Church 2.0 and Philip Clayton And The Emerging Church 2.0 that A New Kind […]

In his post Theology After Google: My Thoughts From Afar Dave Buerstetta, Koinonia Pastor for the Woodridge United Methodist Church, refreshingly lays his theological cards right on the table when he says:  So Silva doesn’t like progressive theologians because we acknowledge that people find many paths for following God in the way of Jesus. (Online source) […]