By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 22, 2010 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Radio Appearances, Spiritual Formation
From David Wheaton at his The Christian Worldview blog: (Online source) You can download and listen to the program right here. See also: EVANGELICALISM USING ITS YOUNG AS SPIRITUAL GUINEA PIGS CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY OF RICHARD FOSTER ROOTED IN THE EASTERN DESERT AND THOMAS MERTON DALLAS WILLARD ENCOURAGES CONTEMPLATIVE/CENTERING PRAYER CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY/MYSTICISM (CSM) OF SPIRITUAL FORMATION […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 21, 2010 in Current Issues, Features
North Heights Lutheran Church (NHLC) of Arden Hills and Roseville, MN was originally with the ELCA but: The charismatic church, which has sites in Arden Hills and Roseville, [changed] its affiliation to the Alliance of Renewal Churches, a Minnesota-based association of churches that emphasize spirit-filled worship. (Online source) If, like me, you sense something’s off here and […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 20, 2010 in Current Issues
Progressive/liberal Jim Wallis of Sojourners is a Red Letter Christian along with Living Spiritual Teacher and Roman Catholic mystic Richard Rohr, as well as Living Spiritual Teacher and leading Emergent Church guru Brian McLaren—each of whom is very influential in shaping the new version of Progressive Christian theology under the spiritual circus “big tent” of the sinfully ecumenical neo-liberal cult of the Emerging Church aka the Emergent […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 20, 2010 in Devotions, Quotes
There is no fear of God before their eyes. And the rejection of Jesus Christ—God the Son—Whom God the Father has appointed to be our Savior, our King, and our Lord, is the most daring and damning of all sins. There is nothing in this world that reveals what is in the human heart so […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 20, 2010 in Devotions
And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. (Psalm 50:15) This is a promise indeed! Here is an urgent occasion — “the day of trouble.” It is dark at noon on such a day, and every hour seems blacker than the one which […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 20, 2010 in Word Faith
This just in to Internet Central ODM News, where our motto is: If it’s news, then it’s news to us. Last night via his Twitter account, which bears an uncanny resemblance to the one used by the Hebrew prophet Habbakuk, the “profit” Mannaseh Jordan warned the world: (Online source) It’s been documented before that […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 19, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Claiming to be wise, they became fools. (Romans 1:22) We Need To Start Speaking Plainly Apprising Ministries has told you that the sinfully ecumenical neo-liberal cult of the Emerging Church aka the Emergent Church has been busy in their spiritual basement, as it were, cobbling together a new postmodern form of liberalism they are calling Emergence Christianity; and one of the main venues that’s […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 19, 2010 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Erwin McManus, Features, Jay Bakker, Leonard Sweet, Marcus Borg, Richard Foster, Rick Warren, Rob Bell, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation
This online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries has been blessed of Jesus to be used as one of His “go-to” ministries in the area of the ne0-Gnostic corruption called Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM), which is now pandemic within mainstream evangelicalism through its foolish embrace of the sinfully ecumenical neo-liberal cult of the Emerging Church aka Emergent Church with its quasi-universalism in a […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 19, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
let it be known to all of you and to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead—by him this man is standing before you well. This Jesus is the stone that was rejected by you, the builders, which has become the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 18, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Word Faith
By Apprising Ministries correspondent Chrystal Whitt of Slaughter of the Sheep Well, I guess the “restoration” of Todd Bentley is complete, because Rick Joyner is “releasing” him back into ministry. Here are a couple of observations: Rick Joyner restored Bentley, not God. Rick Joyner didn’t truly “restore” Bentley…only God can do that. Rick Joyner […]