Rob Bell is going on tour this fall. The name of the tour is “the gods aren’t angry” the subtitle to the tour is “How humans invented religion to make themselves feel better.”
We wonder if he’ll lump Christianity and the God of the Bible into both categories; not angry with our sin and a [...]

Greg Gilbert of IX Marks has written an excellent critique of Brian McLaren’s view of the Kingdom of God. Says Gilbert:
Essentially, McLaren believes that the church, considered as a whole, has misunderstood and misapplied the gospel of Jesus. It has traded Jesus’ "gospel of the kingdom" for a gospel of "getting into heaven after you [...]

Christian Research Net continues to document the evangelical cave in on the correct Biblical model of male elders. Christian Post has this story: 

Reformed churches will challenge the gender leadership imbalance in church and society and seek new models at an international consultation beginning Friday. Pastors, theologians and lay leaders from 17 countries throughout Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America [...]

Writing for Fox News Michael Joesph says, " I’ve produced three books,…making the case for lowering the wall of separation between faith and entertainment. But if the result is both dumbed-down religion and comedy as in the box office flop Evan Almighty, it may be the strongest argument yet for reinstating that wall and keeping [...]

Washington Post brings us this story:

A two-week evangelical campaign designed to bring Jews to Jesus is underway in Washington, taking this question to Metro stations, Nationals games and popular spots like U Street: Is Jesus the Jewish messiah? That is the core belief of the international missionary organization Jews for Jesus, the best known of [...]

This short post here at Apprising Ministries is to draw to your attention to the fact that Martin Luther himself considered Roman Catholicism apostate. And as you’ll see this is being kind…

Ol’ friend Jim Bublitz at Old Truth.com has this timely post:

"If you are in a church where the flag falls out of the ceiling on the Fourth of July, and an honor guard comes down the isle with flags for each branch of the service. And if you are singing God bless America on ANY Sunday [...]

In this post at Slice of Laodicea Ingrid Schlueter points us to "an encouraging piece from a Southern Baptist pastor who isn’t afraid to say it like it is. Thank you, Pastor Stinnett, for speaking truth. Here’s an excerpt":

…Further, we have concerned ourselves far too much with showmanship and not near enough with substance. This is [...]

Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant. (Ezekiel 16:60)
Notwithstanding our sins, the Lord is still faithful in His love to us. He looks back. See how He remembers those early days of ours when He took us into covenant [...]

O FOUNTAIN OF ALL GOOD,
Destroy in me every lofty thought,
Break pride to pieces and scatter it to the winds,
Annihilate each clinging shred of self-righteousness,
Implant in me true lowliness of spirit,
Abase me to self-loathing and self-abhorrence,
Open in me a fount of penitential tears,
Break me, then bind me up;
Thus will my heart be a prepared dwelling for [...]

“There is no gospel worth thinking of, much less worth proclaiming, if Jesus be forgotten. We must have Jesus as Alpha and Omega in all our ministries.”

The Lord alone be praised for His allowing me to be on Crosstalk again. Ingrid and I began this program talking the fascination that some young evangelical Christians have with the so-called "Christian" mysticism which actually developed in the antibiblical monastic traditions of apostate Roman Catholicism.
One of things discussed is that "ever since the mid to [...]

And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground. (Exodus 3:5)
Christian churches have come to the dangerous time predicted long ago. It is a time when we can pat one another on the back, congratulate ourselves and join in the glad [...]

For a while I have wondered about Youth ministries. Is the youth minister a scriptural office? What is the point to a "youth ministry" with a certain leader?       Read the post here

Here is an important article from Pastor Bob DeWaay. It’s one thing to warn people of impending spiritual dangers in general. What DeWaay does in this in-depth piece is get the root of the many problems going on within American Christianity. This article will also supply you with the antidote to the theological poison being injected into our churches by vipers posing as Christians.

The Lord be praised as over at Slice of Laodicea Ingrid Schlueter writes:

Crosstalk today will feature a free ranging discussion on issues such as the evangelical fascination with Roman Catholic mystics, the bogus signs and wonders that the Scriptures warn about, (will you be able to tell the difference?) and also the importance of a [...]

A Little Leaven has a great post that demonstrates that being relevant can actually keep people from coming to your church.
This begs an important question. How are we to reach the entire world for Christ if we’re setting our churches up so they only appeal to limited niche groups in our society?
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Over at Born Again Blogger we read a quote from the Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren which originally appeared in the Washington Post: “One of my goals is to take evangelicals back a century, to the 19th century.” What!? Is Warren serious while as a Slowly Becoming Catholic "Protestant" pastor he openly promotes apostate Roman Catholicism as [...]

I’ve been absent from the web for quite some time as our Internet has been giving us a great deal of trouble.  Additionally, we spent 3 weeks in the wilderness at North River, Alaska (near Unalakleet).  The mosquitos seemed as large as sparrows and as plentiful as the swarms upon Egypt; nevertheless, we were blessed [...]

Rick Warren provides advise on how to increase public baptisms…note that none include preaching the Word of God or repentance…
Here’s a list of some simple things we do that almost any church can do:
1. Mention the value, purpose and benefits of baptism regularly in sermons.
2. Videotape some of your baptisms. Prepare a music video of [...]

I remember a preacher who filled in for ours once for some reason. I was about 15 or so at the time. He was an older gentleman with a big booming voice and a head full of white hair. He was so different from our preacher that I actually listened to what he said. I [...]

The Lord be praised that He has seen fit to open the door for me to be one of the leading voices against the neo-liberal cult of the Emergent Church . As God allows time I plan to update my information as succinctly as I can in an effort to make these issues as accessible [...]

Read this pertinent news from Jan Markell about Hank’s teaching here as she quotes from World Net Daily’s recent article.
Answering the Bible Answerman
It is always with great regret that a ministry has to name the name of a brother in the Lord who is doing enormous damage…   
Farah states, "Today, I am going to address some issues [...]

Watcher’s Lamp continues it’s look at Youth Specialties, and doesn’t have to look too hard to find where Youth Specialties stands on the issues of contemplative prayer and the emergent church…
A quick trip to the Youth Specialties book store finds two of many mystical titles such as Mark Yaconelli’s Growing Souls…  "disciplines like prayer, silence, solitude, [...]

True Discernment writes:

The profound ignorance in the American Church never ceases to amaze me. Where is the wisdom in the church today? These people allowed themselves to get caught up in one of the largest greed filled speculative housing markets in history and now they run to God to ask him to keep the party [...]