While the Southern Baptist Convention chases Calvinists bogeymen Apprising Ministries shows you it has bigger problems with representatives like high profile megapastor pastor Ed Young, Jr. who, as can be seen here, convicts himself of hypocrisy by own words.
John MacArthur On Roman Catholicism, Tim Keller’s Mysticism, And Mark Driscoll’s Pornographic Divinations
The Emerging Church Wild Goose Chase 2012
John MacArthur Comments On Linking With NAR Heretics To Reclaim America
Apprising Ministries alerts you that this idea of reclaiming America will very likely become more and more of a hot topic this year. Take for example, the popularity of The Harbinger.
Along this line, I bring you this exclusive audio clip from the 20 June 2012 Worldview Weekend program with Brannon Howse who asks MacArthur about hooking up with heretics towards this cause.
Of Dogs And Swine
Rick Warren On Casting Pearls Before Twitter Swine
Blessed Subtraction
Emerging Church Getting Set To Animate
Mark Driscoll Casting Dead Bodies His Mars Hill Bus Will Roll Over
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WF Pastrix Paula White: As Paul Is To Timothy, So T.D. Jakes Is To Me
Apprising Ministries shows you in this well-researched piece just why it is that Paula White’s doctrine directly reflects back upon T.D. Jakes.
Using exclusive video clips you’ll also be able to watch each of them in action. You’ll see for yourself that she’s every bit a WF prosperity snake oil salesman just the same as she was taught by her “spiritual father” T.D. Jakes.
The Sermon on the Mount, Part 21
22 But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror; 24 for once he has looked at himself and gone away, he has immediately forgotten what kind of person he was. James 1:22–24, NASB
How important is obeying the words of Christ? This is, of course, the essence of Lordship. Jesus Christ is Lord. That is not just a title nor is it something we say to revere him. No, He is Lord over all. He is one in essence with God the Father and God the Holy Spirit in the Hypostatic Union of the Holy Trinity. God is Sovereign and because of his role in the Hypostatic Union, his submission in humbling himself to become a man, the Messiah, his obedience to the Father’s will in all of this as well as keeping the Law perfectly, he also, at the perfect time ordained by the Father, laid down his life as the propititiation for those he came to save.
The Sermon on the Mount, Part 20
22 But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who delude themselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror; 24 for once he has looked at himself and gone away, he has immediately forgotten what kind of person he was. 25 But one who looks intently at the perfect law, the law of liberty, and abides by it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an effectual doer, this man will be blessed in what he does. James 1:22–25, NASB
26 For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead. James 2:26, NASB
Back in the early days of my walk as a Christian, after I became a Bible teacher and later a Deacon, I read my Bible through every year just as I do now, but there were large areas of it that I would consider as “something deeper that I would learn later.” Most of those passages were those we now deal with here that are specifically about doctrine. There was a concept that I had back then that those who took doctrine seriously were “legalistic” while the rest of us were actually walking closer to Jesus because we were “experiencing him” through our relationships with him. This included our religiosity. What is that? That is a form of piety that spurns doctrinal precision. Many of the leaders of those who believe and teach this sort of thing view “works” as something Christians do in order to be found worthy for salvation. I can remember walking through the parking lot one cold December morning with my snow shovel in hand to clear the sleet from the sidewalk from the entrance to our Church building so people could enter without slipping and falling. In my mind I wondered if God would consider this a “worthy work” and that perhaps my righteousness would indeed exceed that of the Scribes and Pharisees in the end if I continued to read my Bible enough, to pray enough, to give enough, to serve enough, et cetera I would not hear Jesus say to me what he said in Matthew 7:23.
Pastrix Paula White: Your Words Create Your Destiny
Apprising Ministries gives you the chance via exclusive video clips to watch both Paula White and her mentor and spiritual father T.D. Jakes in action.
White’s said Jakes is her Paul as she is his Timothy. Here you’ll see the master and his student teaching the mythology of Word Faith positive confession.
Is Rick Warren On A Quest To Appear Foolish?
John MacArthur: Seeker Driven/Attractional Movement Is The New Liberalism
The Sermon on the Mount, Part 19
4 And Jesus answered and said to them, “See to it that no one misleads you. 5 “For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will mislead many. 6 “You will be hearing of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not frightened, for those things must take place, but that is not yet the end. 7 “For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and in various places there will be famines and earthquakes. 8 “But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pangs. 9 “Then they will deliver you to tribulation, and will kill you, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name. 10 “At that time many will fall away and will betray one another and hate one another. 11 “Many false prophets will arise and will mislead many. 12 “Because lawlessness is increased, most people’s love will grow cold. 13 “But the one who endures to the end, he will be saved. 14 “This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come. Matt. 24:4–14, NASB
When I encounter those whose theology and eschatology has been colored by presuppositions, philosophies, and the teachings of some theologians that the Church’s main function is to establish and prepare God’s Kingdom here on this Earth so the Lord will return and claim it, I wonder how seriously these people take Scripture passages such as Matthew 24:4–14 (above). These same people are all about making secular culture conform to Christianity. I find it very difficult to line that up with what our Lord said in Matthew 24 about what things would be like before he actually did return. What is the reality? Will the Church totally take over the world in this age? From what I have studied in the New Testament, the Church is a called out “congregation” of people that are despised, persecuted, and put to death for their faith as they live for the glory of their Lord in this life. The point of that is to attain a greater resurrection in the next age. Let’s see what our Lord said about the reality of what we have to deal with in this age as the Church.
Emergent Monastic Communities, Apprising Ministries, and a Wild Goose Chase
“Rev.” Dr. Elizabeth Kaeton, who’s even “worked closely with Bishop Jack Spong,” decided to take a swipe at my work at Apprising Ministries.
It provides a good teaching moment concerning the counterfeit spirituality of her postmodern liberalism, the cult within the Emerging Church, and its spiritually bankrupt non-gospel.
How Shall I Go To God?
Rick Warren Mentor Peter Drucker: “I am not a born again Christian”
Apprising Ministries brings you an exclusive video clip where you’ll hear the late business guru say this on his own.
You’ll also hear him tell you that his interest in megachurches was not from a religious standpoint, but one of social phenomenon “period.”
Now stop and think about how much influence his admitted secular business practices have had upon the huge Seeker Driven sectors of contemporary evangelicalism.
Contemplative Deeper Life Pietism
Apprising Ministries has been talking for the past year or so about the syncretism being ushered in by contemplative mysticism as it slithers deep into evangelicalism.
In this piece, with an assist from Christian apologist Bob DeWaay you’ll see that at its root is the false teaching of those who practice it are the elite “enlightened” class of Christians.
The Sermon on the Mount, Part 18
1 I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingdom: 2 preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction. 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, 4 and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths. 2 Timothy 4:1–4, NASB
In the passage above (2 Timothy 4:1-4) the word “myths” translates the Greek noun μύθους (mythous), the Accusative, Plural of μῦθος (mythos). It is where we get the English words myth and mythology. In Classical Greek, this is a tale or fable that is “fabricated by the mind in contrast to reality.” In the New Testament, μύθους is always used to denote a cunning fable full of falsehoods and pretenses for the purpose of deceiving others. Those who willingly turn from God’s truth will unwillingly be deceived. Is this happening in our day? Yes it is. Why? It is because most of the visible church won’t tolerate true preaching, which proclaims truth and confronts sin; doctrinal error is everywhere: God’s sovereignty has been redefined in the “Open Theism” movement; Christians seek extra-biblical revelation through mysticism and so-called prophecies; hell is denied as a reality; the roles of men and women are blurred or destroyed altogether; homosexuality, fornication, abortion, and other immorality is condoned and even defended; et cetera. This deception has resulted in most of what we call the “visible church” having zero discernment. Error is rampant because they have willingly turned from God’s truth. In this they have proved that they have not entered by the narrow gate.
Rick Warren, Manny Pacquiao and the Influence of Peter Drucker
Apprising Ministries walks you through a recent Rick Warren public relations event, billed by him as a Bible study, and explains that quoting Bible verses doesn’t make Roman Catholics Christians.
If Pacquiao has really come to Christ as Warren alleges, then he needs to leave the apostate Roman Catholic Church, which has anathematized the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Interview With Brittany Koper, Granddaughter Of TBN’S Paul And Jan Crouch
With the Elephant Room 2 mainstreaming T.D. Jakes, not to mention CGM megastar Bill Hybels’ own promotion of the heretical Word Faith preacher, WF mythology slithers deeper into the mainstream of Christendom.
Therefore, Apprising Ministries believes this interview with Koper, which you listen to at AM, is now quite relevant as it concerns Trinity Broadcasting Network, a home to T.D. Jakes, and a haven for heretics of the WF movement.