Apprising Ministries has been discussing something called A Covenant for Civility, e.g. in Diana Butler Bass On Chris Rosebrough, Ingrid Schlueter, And Ken Silva In Sin, where you’ll find the link to the Crosstalk radio program Bass—one of the original signers—and her friend pastor BrianMerritt took exception. The document can be traced back through Southern Baptist ecumenicist Chuck […]

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! (Isaiah 5:20, ESV) Tolerance But For Their Own Beliefs As one who is a pastor-teacher I’m presenting this piece here at the online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries for your […]

A main function of the online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries is to alert you to developing trends within the visible church. For example, I’ve been showing you the shift within the Emergent Church to the new kind of progressive/liberal Christianity that Emerging Church guru Brian McLaren has begun to lay out systematically in his latest book A New […]

Apprising Ministries has long been covering the drift of Rob Bell, the rock star Elvis of the Emerging Church with its new version of Progressive Christianity aka Emergence Christianity. And in pieces like Through Rob Bell “The Great Enlightened Ones” Tell Us Man Has Divine Greatness and Rob Bell And Shane Hipps Teaching Mysticism I’ve clearly documented his fall into […]

“You will know them by their fruits.” (Matthew 7:16, NASB)  Rotten Progressive Christianity As a pastor-teacher, I offer this here at Apprising Ministries as a real good look at the fruit being produced by the updated Progressive Christianity being spread by the neo-liberal cult of the Emerging Church with its de-formation of the Christian faith called Emergence Christianity. This is the new […]

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)  Be Careful Who You Listen To Because You Just Might Come To […]

Apprising Ministries draws your attention to Is the meaning of Easter being lost? by Kate Shellnutt of the Houston Chronicle where she reminds us of a couple of sad facts. Unfortunately however, Shellnutt is right when she says: Just as Christmas for many has become less about the miracle of the virgin birth, Easter may be losing […]

“Take heed what you hear” and read! More than forty years ago the saintly Adolph Saphir wrote, “I think the fewer books we read—the better. It is like times of cholera, when we should only drink filtered water.” What would he say if he were on earth today and glanced over the deadly poison sent […]

…they are full of things from the East and of fortune-tellers like the Philistines, and they strike hands with the children of foreigners. (Isaiah 2:6, ESV) Spreading The New EC Ideology Apprising Ministries has been telling you in recent posts such as The Emerging Church, Philip Clayton, And New Progressive Theology and Brian McLaren And His New Emerging Progressive […]

Pastor Ken Siva, president of the online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries, and General Editor of Christian Research Net along with Chris Rosebrough, host of Fighting for the Faith on Pirate Christian Radio, joined Ingrid Schlueter of her Crosstalk Radio show today to discuss A Covenant For Civility.  In Jim Wallis And Sojourners Whine […]