By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 31, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren, Southern Baptist Convention
Apprising Ministries continues with our documentation of what just may be a great falling away as silly superstitions disguised as so-called Spiritual Formation slither deeper into the very heart of the mainstream evangelical community. Now only pretending to be Protestant as they bow before the Golden Calf of corrupt Counter Reformation Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) as perpetrated by Southern Baptist minister […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 31, 2011 in Current Issues, Features
By Apprising Ministries special correspondent Mike Ratilff of Possessing the Treasure 28 Μετὰ τοῦτο εἰδὼς ὁ Ἰησοῦς ὅτι ἤδη πάντα τετέλεσται, ἵνα τελειωθῇ ἡ γραφή, λέγει· διψῶ. 29 σκεῦος ἔκειτο ὄξους μεστόν· σπόγγον οὖν μεστὸν τοῦ ὄξους ὑσσώπῳ περιθέντες προσήνεγκαν αὐτοῦ τῷ στόματι. 30 ὅτε οὖν ἔλαβεν τὸ ὄξος [ὁ] Ἰησοῦς εἶπεν· τετέλεσται, καὶ κλίνας […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 31, 2011 in Current Issues, Features, Steven Furtick
By Apprising Ministries special correspondent Erin Benziger of Do Not Be Surprised… Well, it’s almost here. The Code Orange Revival, hosted by young, Seeker-Driven pastor Steven Furtick, is mere days away. With this event, Furtick aspires to gather a group of leaders together in order to cause an “eruption” of God’s power and movement. The […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 31, 2011 in Current Issues, Features, Roman Catholicism
See also: SBC’S BETH MOORE MERELY PRETENDING TO BE PROTESTANT JAMES ROBISON AND RICK WARREN WORKING TO REVERSE THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION RICK WARREN AND TEACHINGS OF DEMONS
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 31, 2011 in Current Issues, Features
Courtesy of James Sundquist now Apprising Ministries points you to Court case determines church must shut down by WND reporter Dave Tombers who informs us: A Christian and Missionary Alliance congregation in Paramus, N.J., is facing a forced removal from a debt-free building the congregation has owned since 1929 this weekend, and they are blaming their own […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 30, 2011 in Current Issues, Features
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. (Romans 8:5) Take a moment to look closely at the first part of that verse once again — those who live according to […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 30, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Devotions, Features, Rob Bell
“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was thrown into the sea and gathered fish of every kind… and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” (Matthew 13:47, 50) The doctrine of hell is undoubtedly the most difficult one for Christians to accept […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 30, 2011 in Current Issues, Features
HT: Nugget Net Newsline See also: SEEKER DRIVEN ATTRACTIONAL MEGACHURCH PASTOR FINALLY GOES TOO FAR SUN STAND STILL PRAYER, STEVEN FURTICK, AND THE APOSTLE PAUL THE ELEPHANT ROOM, T.D. JAKES & CINDY TRIMM
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 30, 2011 in Current Issues, Features
Apprising Ministries is an online apologetics and discernment work monitoring and assessing trends within the church visible in this time where we appear be at the front of a great falling away. In addition to Biblical counsel and answering questions via email, another thing I do here at AM is to make you aware of things […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 29, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Apprising Ministries has long been a leading critic of the sinfully ecumenical neo-liberal cult operating within the Emergent Church aka the Emerging Church with its more clearly delineated postmodern Progressive Christian theology. It’s actually a Liberalism 2.0 that these rebels against the authority of God’s Word often refer to as “big tent” Emergence Christianity; in other words, this is the Love […]