For people will be lovers of self. (2 Timothy 3:2, ESV) Interlocking Circles Centered On Self With limited manpower, being that I am but one man, I do what I can here at Apprising Ministries to uncover disturbing trends within the mainstream of the evangelical community of the church visible. Primarily, as a former Roman Catholic, I focus on […]

Professing to be wise, they became fools. (Romans 1:22, NASB) I’ll Just See What I Want To See… This is a follow-up to the Apprising Ministries post Ken Silva And Cathlimergent Network where I showed you that John Sobert Sylvest, who started something called Cathlimergent Conversations: Catholics in the Emerging Church Conversation, tweeted the following concerning my article Roman […]

You must not do as they do in Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. Do not follow their practices. (Leviticus 18:3) Too Far Out For Us To Even Get A Radar Fix The other day in Rick Warren […]

As you can see in previous Apprising Ministries articles such as Rick Warren And Saddleback Church: Prayer Is Not For The Novice and Saddleback Church Pastors Using Rob Bell Teachings and Southern Baptist Pastor Rick Warren And Saddleback Church Openly Recommend Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren has actually been doing so for quite some time now. Why […]

Within a source paper called Spiritual Disciplines: Pathway to Christian Maturity (SDPCM), from the Georgia Baptist Convention (SBC), we learn what is now considered consistent with a proper Protestant approach to spirituality for Christians in the Southern Baptist Convention. Continuing along the lines of Richard Foster Forming Protestant Southern Baptist Convention Spirituality here Apprising Ministries begins with the following from Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker […]

First you begin with a great big bowl full of years of shallow self-centered “what does this verse mean to me” Bible studies. Next stir in a large measure of biblical illiteracy, while adding a small dose of the yeast of refusing to refute error; and make sure to blend in more than a moderate […]

It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. (Galatians 5:1) Returning To Romanticized Roman Catholicism  In posts like Emerging Church To TransFORM Outlaw Preachers and Emerging Church And Adele Sakler TransFORM Gay Agenda In Evangelicalism at Apprising Ministries I introduced you to TransFORM, a […]

Apprising Ministries has pointed out in recent articles like Evangelicalism Becoming Another Religion Entirely that Satan has been busy saturating throughout the very dry forest of intellectual evangelical churchianity, so easily passing for Christianity these days in alleged postmodern [read: relativistic] America, highly flammable Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism—which first flowered in apostate Roman Catholicism. You need to realize that very rough spiritual waters […]

Apprising Ministries first talked about MEDITATION: Buddhist and Christian “Is There Common Ground?”, which took place November 3 at Bethel University, in Crosstalk: Ingrid Schlueter And Bob DeWaay On Buddhists At Bethel University. In that Crosstalk program Bob DeWaay, pastor of Twin City Fellowship, gives his eyewitness account of this Symposium. In the post Jan Markell […]

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