By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 19, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 19, 2011 in Current Issues, Features, Roman Catholicism
The Reformation was responsible for restoring to the Church the principle of sola Scriptura, a principle which had been operative within the Church from the very beginning of the post apostolic age. Initially the apostles taught orally but with the close of the apostolic age all special revelation that God wanted preserved for man was […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 18, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord God, “when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord. They shall wander from sea to sea, and from north to east; they shall run to and fro, to seek the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 18, 2011 in Current Issues, Features
By Apprising Ministries correspondent Christine Pack of Sola Sisters My friendship with Bob DeWaay, former pastor of Twin City Fellowship, began several years ago when I was a new Christian. I had been saved out of the New Age movement, in which I had been discipled very deeply in mysticism, mantra meditation, yoga and a […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 17, 2011 in AM Missives, 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) Tell Me Some Nice Bedtime Stories For My Wild Goose Chase I’ve said […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 17, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Word Faith
Apprising Ministries is a online apologetics and discernment labor in the Lord and part of my commission as pastor-teacher is to help make you aware of trends within the church visible. I wish I had better news but as I survey the horizon I see a tsunami of apostasy on the way; in large part […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 17, 2011 in Current Issues, Features
As part of our online apologetics and discernment labors Apprising Ministries been documenting the New Downgrade within evangelicalism and I’ve been talking about The Build-A-God Shop, a venue where you can come in and share the characteristics of the god of your choosing. Right now there are those furiously building a version of the mush god of mysticism […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 16, 2011 in Current Issues, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian"
As the Emerging Church, now upgraded to version 2.0 with its newer, more clearly delineated postmodern Progressive Christian theology, spreads like a spiritual staphylococcus aureus infection a main focus of this particular online apologetics and discernment work here at Apprising Ministries has been monitoring and exposing the neo-liberal cult of the Emergent Church. For example, […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 16, 2011 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
“Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying: ‘ These people draw near to Me with their mouth, And honor Me with their lips, But their heart is far from Me. And in vain they worship Me, Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ ” (Matthew 15:8-9) Pious Words And Deeds Have Never Fooled God […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 15, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Homosexuality/"Christian", Jay Bakker
Thus says the LORD:”Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’ I set watchmen over you, saying, ’Pay attention to the sound of the trumpet!’ But they […]