By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 31, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church
This is a follow-up to the Apprising Ministries piece Doug Pagitt And The Emerging Church Agenda and gives you more evidence concerning the so-called “conversation” of the egregiously ecumenical Emerging Church aka Emergent Church that morphed into Emergence Christianity (EC). You need to understand that this cult of a postliberalism, now firmly within mainstream evangelicalism, was always a “revolution” with […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 31, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
This online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries has been covering the egregiously ecumenical Emerging Church aka Emergent Church that morphed into Emergence Christianity (EC)—and which is now a cult of a postliberalism firmly within mainstream evangelicalism—for some five years now. As you may know the EC is sometimes also called “the conversation”; however, any […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 30, 2009 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism
This so-called “spiritual discipline” is the chief vehicle of Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism and is without question a “Christian” form of transcendental meditation. Consider the following from Contemplative (Centering) Prayer: In 1974, Father William Meninger, a Trappist monk and retreat master at St. Josephs Abbey in Spencer, Mass. found a dusty little book in the abbey library, The Cloud […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 30, 2009 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Spiritual Formation
Apprising Ministries has warned in posts e.g. Calvinist Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism? and Disciplines To Deception In Southern Baptist Convention that for years now Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) as taught by Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster along with his spiritual twin and Southern Baptist minister Dallas Willard has been rapidly spreading throughout mainstream evangelicalism under the guise of spurious Spiritual Formation. What follows is yet another sad case in point. Yesterday […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 30, 2009 in Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church
Heretical quasi-universalist Doug Pagitt is beyond question a key voice in the egregiously ecumenical Emerging Church aka Emergent Church that morphed into Emergence Christianity (EC)—and which is now a cult of a postliberalism firmly within mainstream evangelicalism. Well, it seems that Pagitt and others around him have recently been under some kind of attack. Last night Pagitt tweeted: Strangely […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 29, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian"
I’ve pointed out many times now that as a general rule, and a courtesy, we do not publish email without the permission of the sender. However at the same time, all email sent to AM and Christian Research Network is considered the property of Apprising Ministries so we may indeed publish unsolicited email for the purposes of […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 29, 2009 in Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church
Apprising Ministries has pointed out that Samir Selmanovic has been integral to the birth of the egregiously ecumenical Emerging Church aka Emergent Church that morphed into Emergence Christianity (EC), and which is now a cult of a postliberalism firmly within mainstream evangelicalism. Just a bit ago today Selmanovic tweeted: Fr. Rohr: Faith is a learned “tolerance 4 ambiguity,” I no longer use knowledge […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 29, 2009 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues
Continuing along the line of the Apprising Ministries post Calvinist Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, our friend Carla over at her More Books and Things blog brings to our attention: The Calvin Institute of Christian Worship describes themselves as an organization that promotes the study and renewal of Christian worship around the world. Their intended target is a […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 27, 2009 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Spiritual Formation
They are filled with influences from the east,… (Isaiah 2:6, NASB) Protestantism Returning To Dark Ages? Apprising Ministries began looking into this question in Confusion Concerning Calvinist Spirituality? Therein I followed up a tip from a reader concerning The Village Church (TVC) where Matt Chandler, a professing Calvinist, is pastor. Let me be crystal clear here; I am well aware of pastor Chandler’s current situation with his battling a malignant brain […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 26, 2009 in Current Issues, Features
I’ve pointed out many times now that as a general rule, and a courtesy, we do not publish email without the permission of the sender. However at the same time, all email sent to AM and Christian Research Network is considered the property of Apprising Ministries so we may indeed publish unsolicited email for the purposes of […]