The online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries has been covering the damage that’s been done by evangelicalism’s embrace of the sinfully ecumenical neo-liberal cult of the Emergent Church aka the Emerging Church—with its “big tent” Progressive Christianity aka Emergence Christianity. By using warped and toxic teachings of EC leaders like Emerging Church rock star pastor Rob Bell the mainstream of […]

As I begin this piece here at Apprising Ministries I develop further an analogy I heard originally from Chris Rosebrough; The Build-A-God Shop, a venue where you can come in and share the characteristics of the god of your choosing. Then after you place your order, people scurry down to the basement of the store and get […]

For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of […]

It pains me to share this kind of squalid compromise with you here at Apprising Ministries, but anyone who loves Jesus and His Church, and has any amount of discernment can’t help but see the drift within the evangelical community into a New Downgrade. As the murky mist of postmodernism covers more and more of the world, […]

For the household gods utter nonsense, and the diviners see lies; they tell false dreams and give empty consolation. Therefore the people wander like sheep; they are afflicted for lack of a shepherd. (Zechariah 10:2) Transformation Is Very Real…Spiritual Deception Unfortunately the spiritually obtuse seem to think the sinfully ecumenical neo-liberal cult of the Emergent […]

[They] and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. (2 Timothy 4:4) But You’re Really Worshipping Yourself Along the lines of the Apprising Ministries post The Emergence Of A New God, here we’ll hear a bit more about the mystic mush god with a man-shaped hole in its heart, now […]

Apprising Ministriesis an online apologetics and discernment work which has begin specializing in analyzing these current trends in the visible church, apprising you as to what they are, and then informing you as to how you can deal with them. Due to increasing syncretism it’s now become increasingly difficult to cover the various strains of […]

Here at the online apologetics and discernment Apprising Ministries, I’ve been following the aftermath of the dubious decision made by Dr. John Piper to have Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren as the keynote speaker at the DG 2010 conference Think: The Life of the Mind & the Love of God. Piper-Warrengate grew warmer when it […]

As you may know, Apprising Ministries is an online apologetics and discernment work specializing in analyzing current trends within the visible church, apprising you as to what they are, and how you can deal with them. One trend we’ve watched very carefully since 2005 was the rise of the egregious Emergent Church aka the Emerging Church; now […]

For at least the past six years now online apologetics and discernment ministries like Lighthouse Trails Research, as well as here at Apprising Ministries, have warning about the growing infestation within evangelicalism of critical thinking skills-numbing corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM), such as that taught by Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster along with […]