By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 8, 2011 in Current Issues, Features, Roman Catholicism
It pains me to share this kind of squalid compromise with you here at Apprising Ministries, but anyone who loves Jesus and His Church, and has any amount of discernment can’t help but see the drift within the evangelical community into a New Downgrade. As the murky mist of postmodernism covers more and more of the world, […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 8, 2011 in Current Issues, Features
More than 150,000 people die every day. That’s 4.5 million each month, a number that exceeds the population of Los Angeles. Add to that the number of dead throughout human history—it’s a staggering figure. Tragically, many of those people died without knowing Christ. What fate awaits them? Do they really Rest In Peace, or do […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 8, 2011 in Current Issues, Features, Quotes
The Question, “What is Christianity?” has within recent years become one of the questions of popular interest of the day; it has actually attained a place upon the front pages of the newspapers and in the popular magazines. To many persons, indeed, the raising of the question seems to be a colossal piece of impertinence; […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 7, 2011 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features
For the household gods utter nonsense, and the diviners see lies; they tell false dreams and give empty consolation. Therefore the people wander like sheep; they are afflicted for lack of a shepherd. (Zechariah 10:2) Transformation Is Very Real…Spiritual Deception Unfortunately the spiritually obtuse seem to think the sinfully ecumenical neo-liberal cult of the Emergent […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 7, 2011 in Current Issues, Features
V.6. I marvel that ye are so soon removed from Him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel; v.7. which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the Gospel of Christ. V.8. But though we or an angel from heaven preach any other gospel unto […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 6, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
[They] and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. (2 Timothy 4:4) But You’re Really Worshipping Yourself Along the lines of the Apprising Ministries post The Emergence Of A New God, here we’ll hear a bit more about the mystic mush god with a man-shaped hole in its heart, now […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 6, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
As a tsunami of apostasy—pushed along by 1 Peter 4:17 judgments—heads toward the church visible the online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries has been documenting the growing falling away of the mainstream evangelical community. Not a few of these judgments have, and will still, come through evanjellyfish’s foolish embrace of the sinfully ecumenical neo-liberal […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 6, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Apprising Ministriesis an online apologetics and discernment work which has begin specializing in analyzing these current trends in the visible church, apprising you as to what they are, and then informing you as to how you can deal with them. Due to increasing syncretism it’s now become increasingly difficult to cover the various strains of […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 5, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
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; but did you know that the ego of “Protestant” Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren has apparently expanded to the point […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 5, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren, Southern Baptist Convention
As Os Guinness pointed out in a perceptive series of articles on the church-growth movement, traditional evangelicalism not only resisted worldly influences, but also used to stress “cognitive defiance” of the world spirit. Now, however, “the world has become so powerful, pervasive, and appealing that the traditional stance of cognitive defiance has become rare and […]