The Old Man

5 For if we have become united with Him in the likeness of His death, certainly we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection, 6 knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, in order that our body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer be slaves to sin; 7 for he who has died has been justified from sin. Romans 6:5-7 (LSB) 

Romans 6:6 clearly shows us that true believers become holy in Christ. However, there is confusion because many do not look correctly at the Greek verb tenses in this passage. If they simply read it in English or some other translation it is easy to not see that the all the verb tenses here are past tenses (aorist or perfect)…. Continue reading

So Help me God

“The giant takeaway is that “we the people” are now being routinely deceived on vital matters by an ideological and corrupt press.  And many of us don’t even care.”

(Bill O’Reilly) In court, we are compelled to swear that the truth be told.  If you lie, you commit a crime: perjury.

But few are concerned about perjury.  Ask any attorney.  You can fabricate all you want; nobody much cares. Continue reading

Bombshell Evidence About the 2020 Election Is Coming

“The establishment media will dismiss all of this as election denialism, but the fact is that the 2020 election was never properly investigated. Instead, we were told to trust the results of the “most secure election in history,” and if you dared to question the results, you were mocked, censored, or demonetized.”

(Matt Margolis – PJ Media) Something big is on the horizon — and the people saying so aren’t fringe voices on a podcast. They’re senior Trump administration officials.

Monica Crowley, the U.S. government’s chief of protocol, dropped a significant claim on Wednesday… Continue reading

What Does He Know? Dan Bongino Offers Chilling Warning to Barack Obama.

“Barack Hussein Obama is the king of weaponization…documents declassified last year revealed he was present for key meetings that led to critical steps in the opening of the Russia Hoax investigation against President Trump…President Trump has restored integrity to the Department of Justice that Obama and Biden broke.” White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson

(Matt Margolis – PJ Media) I still can’t believe that Barack Obama had the audacity to lecture Americans during his recent interview with Stephen Colbert about presidents misusing the Justice Department. Continue reading

The Democratic Party Is Dead, Long Live the Jacobins!

“The most recent nihilist developments in American society can be attributed to these Jacobin* “Democrats”: biological men competing in women’s sports; critical legal theory that normalizes cashless bail; race-based reparations; violent felons arrested and back on the street hours later; radical abortion on demand until birth; attacks on the concept of the cultural “melting pot”; and opposition to organized Christianity.”

(Victor Davis Hanson) For the past century, the agendas of the Democratic Party were predictable. They professed concern for working Americans and supported blue-collar unions.

Unemployment insurance, a 40-hour work week, disability insurance, and Social Security were their trademarks — often rapidly achieved by growing government bureaucracies and continually raising taxes. Still, many Democrats were socially conservative. Continue reading

Sam Allberry: How His Theology Killed His Ministry

“Allberry refused to agree with God’s word and call his evil desires “sin” as the Bible does, which kept homosexuality burning in his heart. Christians cannot disagree with God and expect it to end well for them. If you refuse to kill sin, it will kill you. And if you’re a Christian, you have the Holy Spirit and the ability to repent, to put to death all evil motions of the flesh within you:”

(Jared Moore – TruthScript) Sam Allberry, a self-proclaimed “Christian who experiences same-sex attraction,” was recently caught in a homosexual relationship, causing him to resign as Associate Pastor of Immanuel Church in Nashville, TN, where he served with Gavin Ortlund, Russell Moore, Ray Ortlund, Barnabas Piper, and others. Allberry has taught across the country that homosexuality in your heart is not sin, if you don’t act on it…. Continue reading

Sanctification and the sin nature of the justified

20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. 21 Therefore what benefit were you then having from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. 22 But now having been freed from sin and enslaved to God, you have your benefit, leading to sanctification, and the end, eternal life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gracious gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:20-23 (LSB) 

If you have ever listened to or read the teachings of any of the emergents or “liberal christians” or perhaps someone like Rob Bell then you probably have noticed the similarities in their reasonings for how they arrived at their theology of unbelief.  Most of them are confessed refugees from some form of pietistic or American Evangelicalism that leaned heavily towards semi-pelagianism and legalism…. Continue reading

Disney Does Damage Control After Several Staffers Arrested on Cruise Ship in Massive Child Porn Sting

(Breitbart) The Walt Disney Company has made a statement after several of its staffers were arrested as part of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s ongoing child sexual exploitation material enforcement operations.

“We have a zero-tolerance policy for this type of behavior and fully cooperated with law enforcement,” a Disney spokesperson told the New York Post responding to news of arrests being made after federal agents boarded five cruise ships,  including a Disney cruise docked in San Diego, between April 23 and 25. Continue reading

5 Reasons Why ‘Casting Down Principalities and Powers’ Is a Doctrine of Demons

“A doctrine of demons does not always deny Jesus openly. Sometimes it adds to Jesus. It adds new revelations, new warfare methods, new apostolic systems, new decrees, new heavenly strategies, and new spiritual technologies. But anything that adds to the sufficiency of Christ and goes beyond Scripture becomes dangerous.”

(Don Pirozok) The teaching that Christians must “cast down principalities and powers” over cities, nations, governments, mountains, territories, or atmospheres is dangerous because it shifts the believer’s attention away from the finished victory of Jesus Christ and into a mystical warfare practice that Scripture never commands. The New Testament teaches that Christ has already defeated principalities and powers through the cross. Believers are commanded to stand in Christ, resist the devil, pray, preach the gospel, walk in holiness, put on the armor of God, and test the spirits. They are never commanded to confront, bind, rebuke, dethrone, or cast down territorial spirits in the heavens. When a doctrine adds spiritual practices that Christ and the apostles did not teach, it becomes a doorway to deception. Continue reading

The “Christian” Pantheon Of Acceptable “gods”

“So the question is not whether you have idols. You have many. The question is which one you would sell the others to keep.”

(Kendall Lankford) There is a curious thing about the first commandment, which is that almost no one believes they have broken it. Murder, yes. Theft, perhaps. Adultery, well, of the eyes if not of the body. But idols? Idols are wooden men in jungles and golden calves in deserts and fat little statues in temples on the other side of the world. The modern man hears Thou shalt have no other gods before me and feels a faint, rather pleasant solidarity with Moses, the way one feels solidarity with a man condemning a crime one has not yet thought of committing. Continue reading

Life in the Spirit Unto Maturity

1 There is therefore now no condemnation to the ones in Christ Jesus. Romans 8:1 (translated from the NA28 Greek text)

Romans 8 is best understood after reading the Apostle Paul’s exposition of his own “wretched man” trapped in a “body of death” in Romans 7:14-25. 

14 For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, having been sold into bondage under sin. 15 For what I am working out, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate. 16 But if I do the very thing I do not want, I agree with the Law, that it is good.

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Interpreting Scripture by Scripture

16 All Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness, 17 so that the man of God may be equipped, having been thoroughly equipped for every good work. 2 Timothy 3:16-17 (LSB) 

I have a Bible that was given to my grandfather by all his children as a gift after several life changing events took place in his life (the death of my grandmother, him having to retire from the pastorate for heath reasons, et cetera). He was born in 1877 and I was born in 1951 so my memory of him was always of a very old man. He became a Baptist preacher in the late 1800’s after his wife led him to Christ and taught him to read and write. Here is the note they wrote to him that is pasted to the inside cover. Continue reading

After Sam Allberry’s Disqualification, His Co-Pastor Puts Out Video Attacking Inerrancy

“You’ve got Gavin Ortlund stepping up to explain, with that gentle and lowly familiar Ortlund tone, that inerrancy isn’t really a first-rank doctrine. Let’s slow down. Let’s be careful. Let’s not throw around labels. Let’s make room for “legitimate Christians” who think the Bible has errors. He even reaches back to Machen, of all people, as if to baptize the whole move in fundamentalist credibility.”

(The Dissenter) It started by nudging inerrancy down the ladder. Not completely off the ladder, nobody’s that reckless in polite company. But just a rung or two. “Important, yes…” Gavin says, “but let’s be careful. Let’s not overstate. Let’s not divide over vocabulary.” It sounds like humility…. Continue reading

Archdiocese of New York Agrees To Pay $800,000,000 in Sex Abuse Settlement

“A letter sent by the Archbishop of New York, Ronald Hicks, notes that the matter has been a painful process, but they hope that all parties accept. If so, they would each received around $215,000.” 

(Protestia) Two years after the Archdiocese of Los Angeles reached an $880 million settlement with men and women who survived childhood sexual abuse at the hands of Roman Catholic priests and clergy in their diocese, the Catholic Archdiocese of New York is following suit, agreeing to pay more than $800 million to its own sexual abuse survivors. Continue reading

Jason Whitlock vs. Erika Kirk: Why She Needs to Resign as TPUSA CEO

“Whitlock has received much hate from other Conservatives for this, but Isaiah 3:12 calls female rulers a curse from God. Paul makes ontological arguments against female ordination in the Church, which rooting his reasoning in Creation, naturally extends the application beyond the Church setting since ontology is not limited to the Church.”

(Anthony Fava – Evangelical Dark Web) Where the Charlie Kirk’s assassination should have united the Right going into the 2026 midterm cycle, the exact opposite has happened. The immediate aftermath saw a debate over Kirk’s thoughts on Israel, which were trending Israel-sceptic, but were not outright anti-Zionist. Because he had shifted on this issue, this led to conspiracy theories that Israel assassinated Charlie Kirk and other outlandish tales. Continue reading

60 Minutes Ran a Shameful Report on ‘Hate Groups’ Helping After Natural Disasters

“Remember, the Left believes charity does not count if it doesn’t come from the government.”

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(Amy Curtis – Townhall) The Left is not coping well with the news that their demand for racism and hate in America far outstrips the supply. We learned last month that the Southern Poverty Law Center, which was indicted for fraud, was funneling money to hate groups to keep them afloat so they could turn around and generate a narrative that white supremacy, Nazism, and other hate groups were still a force to be reckoned with. Continue reading

Rosaria Butterfield Names Preston Sprinkle, Revoice, and CRU as Teaching Heresy on LGBTQ

FLASHBACK FROM 2023

(The Dissenter) Last Friday, author and speaker Rosaria Butterfield spoke at the convocation for Liberty University. Rosaria Butterfield is a former tenured professor of English and women’s studies at Syracuse University who became a Christian in 1999. Her conversion story, which includes leaving a lesbian lifestyle, is detailed in her memoir, “The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert.”

After coming to Christ, Butterfield quickly began a career in Evangelicalism where she would speak about her conversion story. However, she quickly became caught up in the wrong crowd at outlets like The Gospel Coalition and a lot of her teachings she has even admitted herself, were false teachings…. Continue reading

Pastor Sam Allberry Resigns From Church After Revealing ‘Inappropriate relationship with another man’

“A statement from Immanuel Church about Sam Allberry reveals they knew he engaged in an inappropriate relationship with another man in 2022 but didn’t believe it rose to the level of being disqualifying, and still decided to bring him on as pastor. They later discovered new information about this relationship that was previously undisclosed, and then terminated his employment.”

(Protestia) Pastor, author, and apologist Sam Allberry has resigned from his position at his church and from the Keller Institute after revealing that he had been involved in an inappropriate relationship with a man several years ago. Continue reading

Whited Tombs

 27 Woe be to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye are like unto whited tombs, which appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and all filthiness. 28 So are ye also: for outward ye appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. Matthew 23:27-28 (1599 Geneva Bible)

Back in 2007 in January when my wife and I still lived in Kansas one Friday morning as I was preparing to drive to work, I was attempting to put my coffee mug and computer bag into my pickup via the passenger door, which I had already opened. I had not yet scraped the frost from the windows. I did not have my gloves on because I needed some dexterity to use my keys while holding my coffee mug in my right hand and my computer bag in my left. Also, I was standing on about 2-1/2 inches of very slick, uneven ice…. Continue reading

No Easy Peace

13 “For from the least of them even to the greatest of them, Everyone is greedy for gain, And from the prophet even to the priest Everyone practices lying. 14 They have healed the brokenness of My people superficially, Saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ But there is no peace. 15 Were they ashamed because of the abomination they have done? They were not even ashamed at all; They did not even know how to feel dishonor. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; At the time that I punish them, They shall be cast down,” says Yahweh. Jeremiah 6:13-15 (LSB) 

 

Genuine Christians are regenerate. They are new creations (2 Corinthians 5:17). This means a great deal, but what it does not mean is that Christians have instantaneous and complete victory over our enemy within, which is the flesh…. Continue reading

Inside the $50 Billion Lawsuit Shaking Christian Music

“The Newsboys were effectively sidelined across much of the Christian music ecosystem. Relationships deteriorated. Opportunities disappeared. The lawsuit argues that the reporting did not simply describe events but helped trigger a cascade of decisions that removed TCA and the Newsboys from the marketplace.”

(David Morrill) What began as long-whispered allegations about Michael Tait has now exploded into a $50 billion federal lawsuit, one that claims the scandal was not just reported but weaponized. The case pits the Newsboys and their business partners against major concert promoters, MercyMe, and Julie Roys of all people, raising uncomfortable questions about contracts, competition, and how stories get told in the Christian media world. Continue reading

The ‘Jesus’ of Mormonism à la Glenn Beck

“Influential evangelical within the Religious Right James Robison says Jesus is in the heart of devout Mormon Glenn Beck. Leading SBC spokesman Richard Land says that he hears Beck clearly preach the Gospel on TV. Well, here’s the heart of the matter, if Glenn Beck’s ever to be considered a Christian, then let him publicly repent of and repudiate the Mormon theology in this heavily documented article you can examine for yourself.” – Ken Silva, 2012

(Ken Silva) Being an online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries does not involve itself in politics per se; however, there are times when those issues will cross, as is the case with popular conservative talk show host Glenn Beck.

Lately it’s becoming more apparent that Beck, who is a baptized member in good standing with the non-Christian cult of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons), being portrayed by influential evangelicals as a Christian.

Take for example James Robison Says Jesus Is In The Heart Of Mormon Glenn Beck and The god Of Glenn Beck. In the latter piece you see embattled Southern Baptist leader Richard Land tell us he’s heard Beck preach “the Gospel so clearly.” Continue reading

New Footage of Trump Assassination Attempt Released. Here’s What It Shows.

(Matt Margolis – PJ Media) The friendly fire theory just got buried — on video.

For days, questions swirled about whether a Secret Service agent wounded at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner had actually been hit by fellow agents in the chaos. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro put that narrative to rest Thursday night.

Pirro released new, high-quality security video from the Washington Hilton Hotel showing 31-year-old Cole Allen charging through a Secret Service checkpoint during the April 25 dinner, where President Trump was scheduled to speak. The footage, she noted, had already been submitted to U.S. District Court. Continue reading

Progressive Christianity Watch: Flirty God, Lesbian Angels, and Other Things Not in Your Study Bible

“Progressive Christians love to take the “love chapter” of 1 Corinthians out of context to justify everything from homosexuality to, in this case, satanists getting married at a church. It’s too bad she didn’t share the truth about Christianity with this couple; that would’ve been truth to rejoice in.”

(Chris Queen – PJ Media) It’s been a while since I’ve written a Progressive Christianity Watch. I have a trio of doozies for you today, so enjoy.

Let’s head over to Houston, where Rev. Lura Groen, a woman pastor (shocker) preaches at Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church, which is part of the far-left Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. She’s also an “out bisexual.” Continue reading