Rick Warren’s PEACE Train rolled into the Clinton Global Initiative 2008 Conference. Warren detailed the business and service opportunities that exist within the global faith sector.
The Berean Call examines the PEACE Plan in light of the Scriptures. The results reveal the unbiblical mission Warren is creating for the church in the name of global good [...]

I was living in Washington, D.C. when Jimmy Carter was elected President of the United States. This was in 1976. I remember the media making a big deal of the fact that Carter claimed to be a “Born Again Christian.” I remember a cartoon in Time Magazine later that year that portrayed a sidewalk scene [...]

The apostatizing evangelical community has not heard the last of these kinds of Christian confessions as they follow the fickle lead of postevangelicalism’s Burger King “have it your way” version of the Christian faith.
Don’t worry; be happy, everything’s ok as long as you’re singing right along with Lennon and McCartney: “All you need is love.” For those [...]

From Slice of Laodicea, “The producers of a new documentary on deliverance from porn addiction list these shocking statistics…”

Emerging Church Pastor Doug Pagitt lavishes his high praise for Phyllis Tickle and her book The Great Emergence, “Phyllis Tickle is the best friend the emergent movement could ever have… Her books, from The Divine Hours to her memoirs, are essential reading.” Indeed Apprising Ministries notes there’s great excitement ’round Emergent Church circles these days about the way Phyllis tickles their [...]

And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also. (Acts 17:6)
There is no limit to what God could do in our world if we would dare to surrender before Him with a commitment [...]

Without a doubt the culture in the 21st Century is “out of season” for the Gospel. Resistance to the truth of God’s Word is strong because our society has rejected absolute truth. Along with this is the downgrade in morals. I was a teenager in the 1960’s. Even in that “free love” culture there would [...]

Apprising Ministries talks about the September 27, 2008 story “Warren Urges Larger Role for Churches to Solve Global Problems” in Christian Post which reports that publicity seeking Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren was among those who participated in “Former President Clinton’s global summit.”
And in this missive we look at what is dead wrong with Rick Warren and [...]

Over at Pyromanics Phil Johnson posted three PoMotivators. This first one is so dead on target re. Doug Pagitt of the Emerging Church it’s gotta leave a mark. In my opinion Pagitt wouldn’t know platonic thought if he fell over it. And frankly, whenever I hear Emerging Church Pastor Doug Pagitt speak I’m reminded of an old James Brown [...]

Apprising Ministries is reminded of the old saying: How quickly they forget. In this short post we get to the heart of the matter concerning Christians e.g. Rick Warren who signed A Christian Response to ‘A Common Word Between Us and You’.

This is one day late. Sorry. We are wrapping our series of lessons out of Ephesians. This one focused on the child/parent relation and worker/master relation from Eph. 6:1-9. Keep in mind this was geared toward our teens, but as an employee, manager, son, and hopefully one day father, this was a convicting lesson [...]

For the first 20 or so years of this walk I was in a very immature spiritual state. I was utterly convinced during that time that my worth as a disciple depended upon my performance, my learning, my obedience. With that mind-set it was a very horrible experience at times since I was on a [...]

Here’s a helpful article from the fine discernment ministry Personal Freedom Outreach who were involved in this thankless field long before the Internet Front of the Truth War became a focal point in the Church. G. Richard Fisher begins:
It seems clear, since Jesus Himself said, “Judge not,” (Matthew 7:1), that we cannot “judge.” At first glance [...]

When the Protestant Reformation took off in the early 16th Century one of the motivating factors for the cruel retaliation by the Roman church was the teaching by the reformers from God’s Word to the common people that wealth and power were not indicators of God’s blessing on the prelates, priests, monks, bishops, and the [...]

Over at Living Journey we find a humorous post which makes a very serious point concerning the hyper-charismatic “prophets” currently infesting the visible church with their scatter-shot approach to speaking “for God.” Say enough stuff so fast and so often spattered with quasi-King James English that people get so confused they no longer even bother to try and discern.
*Ring announcer Michael Buffer’s voice*
“In [...]

From the Slicecast website we find a program which touches on issues the CRN post Mark Driscoll: The Guardian of Grunge and Seattle Sludge… points to as well.
Dr. Don Kistler is the guest on this Slicecast as he weighs in on the trend of foul-mouthed, pomo, bad-boy preachers. Dr. Kistler is the author of the book, [...]

The Epistle to the Galatians marks the only letter whereby Paul focuses exclusively on only one controversy, and it contains no commendation in any way. [more]

Defending Contending aka DefCon has a post which also has some bearing on the CRN post Mark Driscoll: The Guardian of Grunge and Seattle Sludge…. This particular piece deals with “questionable judgment demonstrated” by John Piper in his “propagating the revolting” Jesus Christ was damned upon the cross and in his inviting “the potty-mouthed prodigy Mark Driscoll to his Desiring [...]

In our daily Christian walk it is a rare day in which we take every thought capture and, through our active repentance, successfully deny ourselves through every circumstance. I don’t think I could claim that I have successfully done this the majority of the time. However, our God is wise and omniscient. It should be [...]

The issue of professing Christians who are openly practicing the lifestyle of homosexuality and yet still claim to be in right relationship to God should now be front and center for discussion within the Body of Christ. This coming on the heels of well-known “Christian” singer Ray Boltz who recently made a rather shocking announcement in Washington Blade: Gay [...]

Recently I had the opportunity to join Ingrid Schlueter to discuss the new reimagined Gnostics and their supposed superior mystic spirituality currently infesting the evangelical community fueled by the spurious Spiritual Formation of Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster . You can find the link to that program in *Crosstalk* “Christian” Mysticism.
In this short post over at Apprising Ministries we’re pleased to point you [...]

Here is the second installment of Chris Rosebrough’s suggestions for a postcard marketing campaign for faithful pastors to send out to their communities.
Rosebrough’s first postcard idea created a firestorm of controversy with critics claiming that he had gone too far by comparing the physical starvation suffered by those in concentration camps to the spiritual starvation [...]

Ecumenical Pilgrimage to Lourdes Called a Miracle By Inmaculada Álvarez
LOURDES, France, SEPT. 25, 2008 (Zenit.org).-
Devotion to the Virgin Mary has an essential role in ecumenical dialogue and the journey to full and visible unity among Christians, says the president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.
Cardinal Walter Kasper affirmed this Wednesday when he presided [...]

There has been much talk concerning, and questions about, a book written by William P. Young called The Shack. So, as a service to our readers, Apprising Ministries draws together into this one source some of what we consider to be the better reviews and discussions about this book. My advice: Stay away from The Shack.

An interesting discussion concerning Emerging Church pastor Mark Driscoll shaping up over at Camp On This. Steve Camp begins:
Is there anyone in the emerging, young, reckless, pseudo-reformed camp that finds this kind of thing outrageous and offensive?
DRISCOLL: “Now what happens is some say “Well, we do believe in the book, and we will teach it, [...]