By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 10, 2012 in Devotions
“Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil” (Matthew 4:1) Jesus’ temptation in the wilderness did not catch His Father by surprise. The Son was specifically “led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.” The word translated “tempted” is from a morally neutral […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 10, 2012 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features
Idolatry is all manner of seeming holiness and worshipping, let these counterfeit spiritualities shine outwardly as glorious and fair as they may; in a word, all manner of devotion in those that we would serve God without Christ the Mediator, his Word and command. In popedom it was held a work of the greatest sanctity […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 9, 2012 in Beth Moore, Current Issues, Features, Southern Baptist Convention
Apprising Ministries continues exposing corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) rooted in the antibiblical monastic tradition of the apostate Church of Rome as it slithers right into the mainstream of the apostatizing evangelical community. To those not given to the spiritual blindness decending upon the church visible it’s obvious that CSM, with its crown jewel—a form of meditation in an altered […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 9, 2012 in Current Issues, Features
Spiritual darkness continues to grow and 1 Peter 4:17 judgments are being sent by Jesus to rain upon the visible Christian church. As apostasy increases Apprising Ministries functions with other soldiers against error in the mission field of online apologetics and discernment along the Internet Front of this Truth War. One major root of this […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 9, 2012 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
“I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture. 10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy.” “I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 9, 2012 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues
By Apprising Ministries special correspondent Justin Edwards of airō And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” – Luke 10:27 The blog world has been lit up since last […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 9, 2012 in Current Issues, Features
By Apprising Ministries special correspondent Erin Benziger of Do Not Be Surprised… There’s no shortage of teaching and perspectives on prayer today in the “Christian” world. As they have for centuries, people who “feel far from God” continue to seek more “spiritual” experiences, and as such fall into dangerous, demonic deceptions. One such devilish device […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 8, 2012 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
“What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray?” (Matthew 18:12) This New Downgrade Today Creates No Controversy Apprising Ministries has been warning about, and documenting, the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 8, 2012 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features
By Apprising Ministries correspondent Christine Pack of Sola Sisters This post should be filed under the category of “Very, Very Sad.” In a recent article by Ken Silva of Apprising, Silva reported that Bible teacher Beth Moore and respected theologian John Piper participated in a sort of “Lectio Divina Lite” prayer at the Passion 2012 […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 7, 2012 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
Apprising Ministries continues tracking the evangelical pilgrimage back to Rome through its spiritually deadly sordid lust affair with corrupt Counter Reformation Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM). It’s critical to remember that CSM flowered in the antibiblical monastic traditions of the Church of Rome and it would produce apostate Roman Catholicism in the first place. We also have to keep in mind […]