I pray, but there are many understandings about prayer. For many, prayer is talking to God, sometimes a great list of requests and needs—sort of like a child’s Christmas list mailed to Santa Claus. But at least for me, prayer is becoming a time of listening rather than talking. There is so much noise in our […]

Apprising Ministries points you to yesterday’s Crosstalk radio program with host Ingrid Schlueter and her guest Sarah Leslie. The Crosstalk website tells us: Sarah Leslie is an author and researcher, a member of the board of directors of Discernment Ministries and also a member of the Discernment Research Group. In response to the May Day event […]

A religion which is all excitement, and has little instruction in it, may serve for transient use; but for permanent life-purposes there must be a knowledge of those great doctrines which are fundamental to the gospel system. I tremble when I hear of a man’s giving up, one by one, the vital principles of the gospel […]

That’s the headline from the report I cite from the pro-gay website Truth Wins Out: I’m sure this will surprise no one who’s involved in the country music world, as country music is much like Christian music, in that it’s full of closeted gay people.  But many country fans may be surprised to find out that […]

Today in David Spangler, Leonard Sweet, And Quantum Spirituality here at Apprising Ministries I reminded you of a recent question I raised here: Is Emerging Church Theologian Leonard Sweet Speaking At Calvary Chapel Of Albuquerque Or Not? As I said, just today I received another email from that church concerning this fuzzy picture but still nothing definitive has been […]

Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. (1 Corinthians 5:6-7 A Heavy Price To Be Paid For Not Following Scripture Apprising Ministries has been telling you in posts like Liberalism 2.0 The New Progressive Christian […]

Apprising Ministries has been among those covering what appears now to be a still developing story concerning Emergent Church theologian Leornard Sweet, a close friend of Emergent Church guru Brian McLaren, and Calvary of Albuquerque (CoA) where Skip Heitzig is Senior Pastor.  It begins when the respected online apologetics and discernment ministry Lighthouse Trails Research ran New Age Sympathizer Leonard Sweet To Speak […]

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) Attacking The Church Now For Favor With The World? Vice President of the Acts 29 Church Planting Network and lead pastor of The Journey, Darren Patrick wanted us […]

 The following quote has gotten emerging church folks all excited and they’re really tweeting it up. This “wisdom” comes from EC leader Samir Selmanovic: If there was a hell, Jesus would be there. Because Jesus is for the excluded. In other words Jesus would give up Heaven@samirselmanovic #trans4m However, those who still use their God-given reasoning […]

And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the LORD. And behold, at the entrance of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs to the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east, worshiping the sun toward the […]