By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 24, 2010 in Devotions
For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. (1 Corinthians 1:19) This verse is a threatening so far as the worldly wise are concerned, but to the simple believer it is a promise. The professedly learned are forever trying to […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 24, 2010 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Apprising Ministries is an online apologetics and discernment work specializing in analyzing current trends in the visible church apprising you as to what they are and how you can deal with them. One trend we’ve watched very carefully since 2005 was the rise of the Emerging Church; now a full-blown neo-liberal cult operating within mainstream evangelicalism, which […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 23, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
Apprising Ministries told you recently about the upcoming Divine Destiny event by popular conservative talk show host Glenn Beck in Apprising Ministries To Glenn Beck. (Online source) It says a lot about the state of the visible church when those who, as far as I know, make no claim to be Christian exercize more discernment than those who do. […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 23, 2010 in Current Issues, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian"
Apprising Ministries has, e.g. in Anne Rice, You Can’t Quit Christianity Unless You’re A Christian and Anne Rice And Homosexuality, been covering the sad saga of Anne Rice allegedly “quitting Christianity” supposedly “in the name of Christ.” I also said in Anne Rice In Apostasy that if she would drop this, then I wouldn’t have to continue to expose her in her apostasy; but […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 22, 2010 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Radio Appearances, Spiritual Formation
From David Wheaton at his The Christian Worldview blog: (Online source) You can download and listen to the program right here. See also: EVANGELICALISM USING ITS YOUNG AS SPIRITUAL GUINEA PIGS CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY OF RICHARD FOSTER ROOTED IN THE EASTERN DESERT AND THOMAS MERTON DALLAS WILLARD ENCOURAGES CONTEMPLATIVE/CENTERING PRAYER CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY/MYSTICISM (CSM) OF SPIRITUAL FORMATION […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 21, 2010 in Current Issues, Features
North Heights Lutheran Church (NHLC) of Arden Hills and Roseville, MN was originally with the ELCA but: The charismatic church, which has sites in Arden Hills and Roseville, [changed] its affiliation to the Alliance of Renewal Churches, a Minnesota-based association of churches that emphasize spirit-filled worship. (Online source) If, like me, you sense something’s off here and […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 20, 2010 in Current Issues
Progressive/liberal Jim Wallis of Sojourners is a Red Letter Christian along with Living Spiritual Teacher and Roman Catholic mystic Richard Rohr, as well as Living Spiritual Teacher and leading Emergent Church guru Brian McLaren—each of whom is very influential in shaping the new version of Progressive Christian theology under the spiritual circus “big tent” of the sinfully ecumenical neo-liberal cult of the Emerging Church aka the Emergent […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 20, 2010 in Devotions, Quotes
There is no fear of God before their eyes. And the rejection of Jesus Christ—God the Son—Whom God the Father has appointed to be our Savior, our King, and our Lord, is the most daring and damning of all sins. There is nothing in this world that reveals what is in the human heart so […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 20, 2010 in Devotions
And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. (Psalm 50:15) This is a promise indeed! Here is an urgent occasion — “the day of trouble.” It is dark at noon on such a day, and every hour seems blacker than the one which […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 20, 2010 in Word Faith
This just in to Internet Central ODM News, where our motto is: If it’s news, then it’s news to us. Last night via his Twitter account, which bears an uncanny resemblance to the one used by the Hebrew prophet Habbakuk, the “profit” Mannaseh Jordan warned the world: (Online source) It’s been documented before that […]