We often lament the vast number of church leaders, pastors, Christian writers, et cetera who have compromised their ministries with the ways and means of the world from various motivations. Instead of doing all for the glory of God, these have some other focus most often fixed upon selfish ambition in one form or another. [...]

So when one doesn’t have the anchor of God’s Word as the final authority to judge highly subjective “feelings” concerning what a person believes then we’ll wind up heading where this pastor is drifting and Giving Up Certainty:
Doubts don’t arise from fear, but faith. I’m not talking about the sort of doubt that leads to apostasy or [...]

Yep, sometimes it’s a rough day in the life of those preaching their doctrines of demons. Apprising Ministries with a telling video clip of Emergence heretic Jay Bakker.

“When they had done so, they caught such a large number of fish that their nets began to break. So they signaled their partners in the other boat to come and help them, and they came and filled both boats so full that they began to sink.”–Luke 5:6-7
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This new piece from Apprising Ministries would be funny; if, there wasn’t so much danger to an entire generation of youth because of the truth within concerning the logical outgrowth of supposedly Protestant evanjellyfish jettisoning its anchor of Sola Scriptura.

The Center for Action and Contemplation is hosting an upcoming Emerging Church Conference that will focus on: 

A fresh understanding of Jesus
Spirituality that links contemplation and action
Social justice and holistic mission
Authentic community

On the speaking docket: Phyllis Tickle our ears, Brian McLaren, Richard Rohr, and Shane Claiborne. 
On the site above Richard Rohr says, “The best criticism of the bad [...]

The Da Vinci Code’s influence upon our nation’s pop-culture is evident. While sharing the gospel, I’ve often encountered, “What about the Gnostic Gospels?” 
A good response at Seeing Clearly.

If you can’t handle the Truth, and/or men speaking from God as men are supposed to, then you’ll do well to avoid this new article from Apprising Ministries.

Embedded in this news update at Catholic Culture, Pope: Encyclical delayed because of economic crisis, is the revelation that the Vatican is preparing to support the call for a new global economic order:
“We must denounce” the global economic system, he said, “with courage, but also with concreteness because moralizing will not help if it is [...]

In his book, The Gospel and Personal Evangelism, Mark Dever gives 12 practical steps that Christians should take towards becoming evangelists (paraphrased):

Pray. Ask God for opportunities and the power to take advantage of them.
Plan to evangelize.
Accept that evangelism is our job as Christians.
Understand that God requires faithfulness even if we don’t feel gifted.
Be faithful even when you have a cultural excuse [...]

False professors and false prophets have one thing in common. They are convinced that the ‘religious paradigm’ they love, cherish, follow, and proclaim is true. Of course, they come to this conclusion through what some of them refer to as their ‘thinkology.’ In other words, what makes it true in their hearts is their own [...]

Apprising Ministries with a section from John MacArthur’s sermon “A Nation Abandoned by God” concerning America that can just as easily apply to evangelicalism itself.

Baptist Press is reporting:
The Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday recommended deputy attorney general nominee David Ogden on a 14-5 vote, sending to the full Senate a nomination that has been criticized by conservatives because of his past representation of pornography clients.
Ogden would become the No. 2 person in the Justice Department behind Attorney General Eric Holder. [...]

Pastor John Chisham shares his thoughts concerning a message at the recently concluded True Church Conference in this piece:
Martin Luther called this the “Pauline Psalm” for it demonstrates very clearly repentance and faith in God, our Savior. The background to the Psalm demonstrates the dire straights that the Psalmist was in; we have Assyria on [...]

At the LCS website we’re told that at this official publishing organization of the Southern Baptist Convention lists, “over 100,000 titles. Any product we stock and promote should be consistent with historical evangelical theology.”
Since CRN, and others, have pointed out numerous titles which are far a-field from there LCS is now-finally- instituting what they call a [...]

Pray for God to open doors for gospel witness. Romans 3 makes it clear that there are none who seek after God. If, then, an individual is seeking God, we must assume that God is seeking that particular individual. Based upon this, our evangelism must be founded upon the fact that God works and God is [...]

Circle up the evanjellyfish wagons as those non-protesting Protestants are heading right back into this exact same religious bondage which would cause the Lord to bring about His Reformation of His Church in the first place. Apprising Ministries with more.

In this interesting post at Reformed Nazarene Manny Silva, who calls himself the  ”formerly wayward son of a Nazarene pastor of 50 years, Rev. Ilidio Silva,” begins:
When some of you get the information I send out to my email list, or if you read it on my blog, do some of you reflexively say to [...]

At WSPA.com anchor Tom Crabtree reports:
Dr. Frank Page believes he’s gained that by agreeing to serve on a presidential advisory council. Dr. Page spoke about the appointment during an interview with News Channel 7’s Tom Crabtree. Page is pastor of First Baptist Church of Taylors, and he recently completed a two-year term as president of the 16-million [...]

CRN knows, it’s hard to believe. Apprising Ministries with more.

The following is a vivid illustration of what I’m talking about in the Apprising Ministries  article Evangelicalism Powered By Man And Not By The Holy Spirit. From the Christian Wire we learn:
Pastor Suzette Caldwell, Board Chair and President of The Prayer Institute and Associate Pastor of Windsor Village United Methodist Church, has been in demand from [...]

One very interesting character in John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress is a fellow named ‘Ignorance.’ ‘Christian’ and ‘Hopeful’ encounter him after they depart the company of the ‘Shepherds’ as they continue their journey to the Celestial City. The path on which they traveled became crooked and it lay next to a country called ‘Conceit.’ ‘Ignorance’ [...]

In this new missive Apprising Ministries takes a look at a couple of reasons why seriously off-the-rails evanjellyfish is so pathetically impotent in reaching people with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

In keeping with my recent theme of evangelism and simple, marketplace apologetics, I want to point out the NEXT! Series over at Team Pyro (By Dan Phillips). 
Here’s my favorite one: 
Challenge: I think you can make the Bible mean anything you want.

Response: So, you’re saying that the meaning of the Bible is objectively fixed and crystal-clear?
Also see Tip of [...]