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By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 30, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
…they are full of things from the East and of fortune-tellers like the Philistines, and they strike hands with the children of foreigners. (Isaiah 2:6, ESV) Spreading The New EC Ideology Apprising Ministries has been telling you in recent posts such as The Emerging Church, Philip Clayton, And New Progressive Theology and Brian McLaren And His New Emerging Progressive […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 29, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Apprising Ministries points you to the following report from Lighthouse Trails Research, which shows a continuing spread of the spiritual cancer of the Emerging Church within apostatizing evangelicalism: This coming June, Calvary Chapel Albuquerque (a veteran Calvary Chapel church pastored by Skip Heitzig) will host the National Worship Leader Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico and will feature New Age sympathizer and […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 29, 2010 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Apprising Ministries showed you in Doug Pagitt, John Piper, And Karma Kick-Back that universalist Emerging Church pastor Doug Pagitt, part of the Emergent trinity along with his progressive theologian in residence Tony Jones and EC guru Brian McLaren, believes that John Piper’s recent prognostication of the demise of the Emergent Church “has been greatly exaggerated.” [1] This is one of those rare […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 27, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
…and from among your own selves will arise men speaking twisted things, to draw away the disciples after them. (Acts 20:30, ESV) Doug Pagitt And Emergent Village Come Emerging Apprising Ministries has been tracking the still developing neo-liberal cult of the Emergent Church festering within mainstream evangelicalism for half a decade now. Today I bring to your […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 26, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
Apprising Ministries has shared concern in e.g. Tim Keller Also Promoting Mystic Guru Peter Scazzero? and Curious Associations Ed Stetzer, Dan Kimball, And Tim Keller MissionSHIFT about reformed pastor Tim Keller involved with things which seem antithetical to Reformation theology. This would be another of those as Nicholas Batzig tells us in his short post Can This […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 26, 2010 in Current Issues, Features
Years ago John MacArthur hit the target dead on when he said: listen, false teaching will always cry intolerance. It will always say you are being divisive, you are being unloving, you are being ungracious, because it can only survive when it doesn’t get scrutinized. So it cries against any intolerance. It cries against any […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 26, 2010 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
As a small companion piece to Brian McLaren And His New Emerging Progressive Theology here at Apprising Ministries I now point you to today’s Jesus, Reconsidered: Book Sparks Evangelical Debate by Barbara Bradley Hagerty religion correspondent for NPR. In my coverage of heretical Emerging Church guru Brian McLaren, I’ve told you that he’s really becoming the source of much obfuscation […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 25, 2010 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, 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, ESV) Clouding The Lens So You Can’t See Here at Apprising Ministries I’m […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 25, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
But, dear friends, remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ foretold. They said to you, “In the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires.” These are the men who divide you, who follow mere natural instincts and do not have the Spirit. (Jude 17-19) Christians Denying Christianity? […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 23, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
Must be something in the air today because it sure seems some megapastors in the Purpose Driven/Seeker Driven (PD/SD) section of the Druckerite camp are whining about their “critics.” FYI, a critic may be defined as anyone who would dare disagree with one of their vision-casting direct revelations allegedly from God Himself. Today Steven Furtick, a disciple of his […]
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