In articles like Jay Bakker Critiques Ken Silva At Religion Dispatches and Doug Pagitt And The Emerging Church Gay Agenda and  Gay Christian Singer Jennifer Knapp Out On Larry King Live here at Apprising Ministries I’ve been doing what I can to remind you that looming only slightly off the horizon of the mainstream evangelical community […]

Thus says the LORD:”Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’ I set watchmen over you, saying, ’Pay attention to the sound of the trumpet!’ But they […]

By Apprising Ministries correspondent Mike Ratilff of Possessing the Treasure You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. (James 4:4 ESV) During my trip to Oklahoma at the end of April […]

 Apprising Ministries continues doing what we can to alert spiritually obtuse pretending to be Protestant evangelicals to the grave dangers and deceptions of embracing the Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) perpetrated by Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster, along with his friend and spiritual twin SBC minister Dallas Willard, as so-called Spiritual Formation (SF). But CSM is nothing more than refried Roman Catholic mysticism with […]

I first became interested in the issues of homosexuality in the early 1950’s when I was a graduate student at New York University centered in Greenwich Village in New York. It was in that particular area I came in contact with every conceivable kind of deviation from the norm, shall we say, and particularly there was […]

Why should we believe that the apostle Paul, when he used the term arsenokoites, had in mind any kind of same-sex activity or practice? Is it not possible that he had in mind something very specific and did not refer to adult, mutual homosexual orientation? Is there any basis for insisting that the term does […]

By Apprising Ministries correspondent pastor Rob Willmann of Rendering Truth.com For those of you who don’t know who he is, Jay Bakker is the son of Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye Bakker. He has a church that he founded called ‘Revolution Church’, which has a branch in Brooklyn, NY. Jay is also known from the […]

As part of our online apologetics and discernment ministry Apprising Ministries been documenting the New Downgrade within evangelicalism, the root of which roughly begins with the charismatic revival as it spreads through the Jesus People/Movement circa early 1970′s out into various denominations and into what became the Fuller Theological Seminary School of World Mission.[1] This is the cesspool from which […]

In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes. (Judges 17:6) The Blind Leading The Blind As spiritual blindness grows and a tsunami of apostasy approaches a large part of my task here at the online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries is to cover, and document, issues within the visible […]

“Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a person’s enemies will be those of his […]