By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 2, 2010 in Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren
By AM correspondent Daniel Neades of Better Than Sacrifice Much of modern evangelicalism seems to be fixated upon the idea that we can only progress as individual Christians and the church if we are pursing a dream or vision. This tendency is epitomized in these two claims: Nothing happens till somebody starts dreaming. What we […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 2, 2010 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
In posts like Doug Pagitt Points Us To Michael Dowd and Doug Pagitt Agrees With Evolutionary Evangelist Michael Dowd the online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries introduced you to Rev. Michael Dowd, whom I first brought to your attention in Jesus Died For Our Reptilian Brain. Dowd is “an ordained Christian minister with a Master of Divinity degree”[1] and author of Thank […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 2, 2010 in Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren
By Apprising Ministries correspondent Christine Pack of Sola Sisters The Desiring God 2010 National Conference is now underway at the Minneapolis Convention Center in Minneapolis, MN. The Desiring God conferences that John Piper hosts annually are known for bringing together some of the best and brightest thinkers, teacher and pastors in American Christianity. The key […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 2, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Devotions, Features
Apprising Ministries is doing what we can to cover, and document, issues within the visible church while spiritual blindness grows and a tsunami of apostasy approaches. I’ve told you that evangelicalism made a horrible mistake when it embraced the sinfully ecumenical neo-liberal cult of the Emerging Church—a veritable Trojan Horse full of heresy. This spiritually nafarious group is headed by, […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 2, 2010 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church
For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 2, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren
by Chris Rosebrough, host of Fighting for the Faith on Pirate Christian Radio I was very disappointed to see that the Desiring God National Conference was selling Rick Warren’s Bible study method book. (Online source) It is clear from Rick Warren’s chronic Bible twisting in his sermons and his books that he only gives lip service to […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 1, 2010 in Current Issues, Features
I’ve pointed out previously that as a part of the online apologetics and discernment work Jesus has called me to here at Apprising Ministries is to chart issues happening as spiritual blindness grows in the visible church and a resulting tsunami of apostasy rapidly approaches. One need only look at Peter Scazzero Bringing Rome Home To His Church; […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 1, 2010 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Southern Baptist Convention
Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh? (Galatians 3:3) Peter Scazzero And Rick Warren Are Spreading Contemplative Spirituality As part of the online apologetics and discernment work being done here at Apprising Ministries we’ve been covering the upgrading of the sinfully ecumenical Emerging Church aka Emergent Church into a full […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 30, 2010 in Devotions
Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. (Psalm 81:10) What an encouragement to pray! Our human notions would lead us to ask small things because our deservings are so small; but the Lord would have us request great blessings. Prayer should be as simple a matter as the opening of the mouth; […]