By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 6, 2011 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Rob Bell
This online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries has been among those who’ve been reporting on the awful decline of mainstream evangelicalism, which made the tragic mistake of embracing the sinfully ecumenical neo-liberal cult of the Emergent Church aka the Emerging Church—with its “big tent” Progressive Christianity aka Emergence Christianity. Now, because evangelical churches began using warped and toxic teachings e.g. of […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 6, 2011 in Devotions
The most obvious way we can show mercy is through physical acts. Jesus specifically commands us to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, visit the sick and imprisoned, and offer any other practical help to those who need it. When we serve others in need, we demonstrate a heart of mercy. The way of mercy […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 6, 2011 in Current Issues, Features
By Apprising Ministries correspondent Mike Ratilff of Possessing the Treasure Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God; for it is written, “As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 5, 2011 in Devotions
“When I saw among the spoil a beautiful cloak from Shinar, and 200 shekels of silver, and a bar of gold weighing 50 shekels, then I coveted them and took them. And see, they are hidden in the earth inside my tent, with the silver underneath.” (Joshua 7:21) The sin of one man brings great effect […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 4, 2011 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Rob Bell
The sad fact is that mainstream evangelicalism embraced the sinfully ecumenical neo-liberal cult of the Emergent Church aka the Emerging Church—with its its “big tent” Progressive Christianity aka Emergence Christianity—and e.g. began using warped and toxic teachings of EC leaders like Emerging Church rock star pastor Rob Bell, and has been poisoning its own young. So Apprising Ministries has been giving you peeks at its bleak future of division […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 4, 2011 in Current Issues, Features, Quotes, Theology
“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels… And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.” (Matthew 25:41, 46) [v. 41] “Then He will also say to those on His left, ‘Depart […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 3, 2011 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Rob Bell
This just in from Internet News headquarters, where our motto is: If it’s news; it’s news to us. Dateline Anywhere USA; maybe even Your Town: This just in…the world’s gone mad. Ok, that’s not so new; however, there’s been some talk around the blogosphere recently about the release of a translation of the Bible that may […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 3, 2011 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Rob Bell
A main focus of this particular online apologetics and discernment work here at Apprising Ministries, has been monitoring and exposing of the Emerging Church, now upgraded to 2.0 with its newer, more clearly delineated, postmodern Progressive Christian theology. This new, and not improved, progressive/liberal theology—a Liberalism 2.0—is what this sinfully ecumenical neo-liberal cult of the Emergent Church will often refer to under their circus “big tent” […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 3, 2011 in Quotes
“For Christians to be linked in association with ministers who do not preach the gospel of Christ is to incur moral guilt. A union which can continue irrespective of whether its member churches belong to a common faith is not fulfilling any scriptural function. The preservation of a denominational association when it is powerless to […]
By AM on Mar 3, 2011 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Rob Bell
He asks a lot of questions in which, unless they’re rhetorical (meaning he believes the answer to them is obviously “no”), they never get answered. The first chapter “What About the Flat Tire?” is a chapter full of such questions. The first three pages contain much of what he said in the video. He talks […]