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PHIL JOHNSON ON THEOLOGICAL LIBERALISM

As a Bible-believing Christian, it’s quite likely that more and more as you listen to what’s being taught in your mainstream evangelical church, you are sensing something is “off.” 1) you’re right; it is. And 2) at Pyromaniacs recently Phil Johnson has done the Church a service is exposing why.  He’s put together a couple […]

MYSTICAL INTERFAITH CONFERENCES IN THE EMERGING CHURCH

By Apprising Ministries and Christian Research Network correspondent Jim Luppachino of Watchers Lamp The Center for Action and Contemplation of “Red Letter Christian” Richard Rohr brings you the following conferences: January 2010 FOLLOWING THE MYSTICS with: James Finley, PhD lived as a monk at the cloistered Trappist monastery of the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky, where the world-renowned […]

9 MARKS: INTERVARSITY PRESS SEEMS ADRIFT

 Apprising Ministries has long been warning that apostatizing pretending to be Protestant evangelicalism is paying a heavy price for its foolish embrace of the sinfully ecumenial Emerging Church aka Emergent Church—which morphed into Emergence Christianity (EC). The EC was a Trojan Horse that unloaded corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) ala Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster—and his spiritual twin Dallas Willard—within […]

DECONSTRUCTING ONE OF THE MOST ATTACKED CHRISTIANS

As I urged you upon my departure for Macedonia, remain on at Ephesus so that you may instruct certain men not to teach strange doctrines, nor to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which give rise to mere speculation rather than furthering the administration of God which is by faith. But the goal of our […]

SAMIR SELMANOVIC HAS LEFT THE BUILDING

they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs. They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them. (Psalm 106:35-36) All Religions Do Not Lead To God While pointing us to John Hendryx from the fine Reformation Theology and his comments concerning a “recent Time Magazine article on Christians and tolerance” a while back Ingrid Schlueter, host of […]

THROWN UNDER THE EMERGING CHURCH BUS

With pleasure Apprising Ministries now points you to an excellent, and insightful, piece called Village Idiots by Phil Johnson, who blogs at the well-respected Pyromaniacs, and is also Executive Director of John MacArthur’s Grace to You. Johnson begins: Emergent Village is collapsing on itself. The EV Weblog, once a busy and heavily-trafficked stream of Emergent semi-consciousness […]

TROUBLE IN EMERGING CHURCH PARADISE?

The Lord be praised that the online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries is one of the better known critics of the egregiously ecumenical Emerging Church aka Emergent Church that morphed into Emergence Christianity (EC)—which is now a cult of a postliberalism firmly within mainstream evangelicalism. We’re told that Brother Maynard is a respected thinker and blogger in the […]

CALVINIST CONTEMPLATIVE/CENTERING PRAYER?

But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how is it that you turn back again to the weak and worthless elemental things, to which you desire to be enslaved all over again? (Galatians 4:9, NASB) Reformed Theology With Counter Reformation Spirituality? In the December 30, 2009 […]

SAMIR SELMANOVIC RECOMMENDING AVATAR EVANGELISM

…the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God, and I do not want you to be participants with demons. (1 Corinthians 10:20) Worshipping Demons Together Apprising Ministries has previously brought to your attention that  Samir Selmanovic was integral to the birth of  the egregiously ecumenical Emerging Church aka Emergent Church that morphed into Emergence Christianity (EC)—which is […]

CALVINIST CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY/MYSTICISM?

They are filled with influences from the east,… (Isaiah 2:6, NASB) Protestantism Returning To Dark Ages? Apprising Ministries began looking into this question in Confusion Concerning Calvinist Spirituality? Therein I followed up a tip from a reader concerning The Village Church (TVC) where Matt Chandler, a professing Calvinist, is pastor. Let me be crystal clear here; I am well aware of pastor Chandler’s current situation with his battling a malignant brain […]