By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 9, 2010 in Current Issues, Features, Southern Baptist Convention
Being primarily an online apologetics and discernment work sent forth by Jesus keeping you apprised of issues going on within the visible church is a large part of the job description for Apprising Ministries. As I’ve told you previously, one of those going on right now I began covering in Bloggers Target Seminary President Ergun Caner. It was there […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 9, 2010 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, 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, ESV) Using Medieval Mystics To Tells Us Myths Apprising Ministries brings to […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 9, 2010 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Self professed Emerging Church progessive theologian Tony Jones, “theologian at residence” in the EC church of his universalist “pastor” Doug Pagitt, himself has announced: I am a proud alumnus of Fuller and happy to be joining the faculty as an adjunct professor. Honestly, it’s unlike any seminary I know of because of its size and its […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 8, 2010 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Theology
The following by Dr. Gary Gilley, pastor of Southern View Chapel, is republished at Apprising Ministries with permission: In the NPP, justification has nothing to do with salvation and everything to do with the church, or community. Declaring that the evangelical church has misread Galatians from ancient times, Wright assures us that he and his comrades have discovered what Paul […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 8, 2010 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Theology
The following by Dr. Gary Gilley, pastor of Southern View Chapel, is republished at Apprising Ministries with permission: In part one of our series on the New Perspective on Paul, we examined the origins and surveyed its basic teachings. We concluded that introduction by stating that the NPP bases most of its theological views on its understanding of the rabbinical […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 8, 2010 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Theology
The following by Dr. Gary Gilley, pastor of Southern View Chapel, is republished at Apprising Ministries with permission: The lovers of God’s truth can be excused if they seem to be a little “under the weather” lately, for everywhere we turn there are attacks on cardinal doctrines of the faith which most of us have considered secure and untouchable for […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 8, 2010 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Theology
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 May 8, 2010 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Apprising Ministries points you to the post below by AM and Christian Research Network correspondent Jim Luppachino of Watcher’s Lamp: In this piece, Big Tent Christianity Funded By Pro Abortion, Pro LBGT Ford Foundation, we see Brian McLaren’s latest campaign funded by the radically left Ford Foundation. Now, another “progressive” Christian group is underwritten by a […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 8, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Along with the online apologetics and discernment ministry Lighthouse Trails Research (LTR), in our post Has Leonard Sweet Been “Disinvited” By Calvary Of Albuquerque?, Apprising Ministries been covering what’s now becoming The Saga of Skip and Sweet. The last information we had was found yesterday in the LTR post Calvary Chapel Albuquerque States: Leonard Sweet Will Not Be Speaking at Conference – Lighthouse Trails […]