By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 11, 2010 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. (2 Timothy 4:3-4) Gathering Their Teachers For the past 5+ years now Apprising Ministries has closely monitored the sinfully […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 11, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren
The online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries has been among those who’ve been reporting on an ill-advised decision by Dr. John Piper to bring Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren into the Desiring God Conference 2010 as the keynote speaker. Unfortunately, it got even worse when Dr. Piper defended his decision; and so, Warrengate is still slowly simmering: At root I think [Rick Warren] is […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 11, 2010 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Spiritual Formation
Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons. (1 Timothy 4:1) Demons Do Have Doctrines and One Of Them Is So-Called Great “Human Potential” As an example of what I mean in the title of this semi-reductio Apprising Ministries piece, here’s […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 10, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Word Faith
*UPDATE* See JACK HAYFORD TO REMARRY WF HERETIC BENNY HINN TO EX-WIFE After a report of an alleged affair between top level Word Faith heretics Benny Hinn and Paula White surfaced in The National Enquirer, in posts such as Paula White: Is She, Or Isn’t She? and Benny Hinn And Paula White Side By Side here at Apprising […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 10, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Roman Catholicism
And then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another. And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray. 12 And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold. But the one who endures to the end will be saved. (Matthew 24:10-13) Thanks, But No Thanks; I’ll Just […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 10, 2010 in Current Issues, Features, Roman Catholicism
By Mike Gendron of Proclaiming the Gospel Ministries Many former Catholics have described their experience of going to weekly Mass as a prison sentence, something they had to do in order to avoid the penalty of a serious sin. Others remember it as a mindless ritual of standing, sitting, kneeling and reciting as the priest […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 10, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Word Faith
A couple of weeks ago in Paula White Hawks Her Upcoming Super Conference With Heretics-Я-Us , here at Apprising Ministries, I told you about something that “life coach, author, motivational speaker” Paula White—now billed as Senior Pastor—is/was hosting something called Super Conference 10.10.10 (SC 10). You can see here that this gathering of Heretics-Я-Us will feature/would have featured the mythical Word Faith […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 9, 2010 in AM Missives, Devotions
For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and […]