By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 23, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
It would appear that many, many years ago Chet Powers aka Dino Valenti, possibly a “pop music prophet,” ended up writing what just might be the inspired(?) theme song of the Emerging Church 2.o with its upgraded version of Progressive Christianity—a Liberalism 2.0—aka Emergence Christianity. That song’s full title is Let’s Get Together, though it’s typically associated with Jesse Colin Young as Get Together because his band The Youngbloods recorded it as […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 23, 2010 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism
Apprising Ministries has long been warning about the dangers of corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) perpetrated as so-called Spiritual Formation (SF) by Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster along with his spiritual twin SBC minister Dallas Willard now slithering deeper into pretending to be Protestant mainstream evangelicalism. Being a former Roman Catholic, I also brought to your attention that it’s beyond question this spurious CSM is nothing more than […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 22, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Marcus Borg
“I told you that you would die in your sins; if you do not believe that I am [the eternal God], you will indeed die in your sins.” (John 8:24, Greek) Christians Who Don’t Believe In Jesus? In the earlier Apprising Ministries piece Ken Silva Answers Philip Clayton I told you that in his post SHOULD the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 21, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
…the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God. (1 Corinthians 10:20) Encouraging Idolatry Earlier Apprising Ministries brought to your attention a recent post by Tony Jones, the progressive theologian in residence at the Emerging Church of his progressive universalist pastor Doug Pagitt; it was called The Future of Progressive Theology and God’s Future, and in it Jones shares with […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 20, 2010 in Current Issues
They have every right to tell the world that I am a dangerous theologian who should not be trusted… They put my name in other posts — posts about Rob Bell or Brian McLaren, and completely unrelated to me — in order to come up higher in search engines when my name is searched. They […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 20, 2010 in Devotions
“Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord.” (Jeremiah 1:8) Whenever fear comes in and makes us falter, we are in danger of falling into sin. Conceit is to be dreaded, but so is cowardice. “Dare to be a Daniel.” Our great Captain should be served […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 19, 2010 in 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) The Emporer’s Clothes Apprising Ministries has been tracking the Emerging Church for […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 19, 2010 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
The actual headline for this short report from Baylor University is: Christian Author to Speak at Intersections Lecture, but Emerging Church guru Brian McLaren is no brother of mine. Baylor student newswriter Lillyan Baker tells us: Dr. Brian McLaren, a Christian author, speaker, blogger and networker, will present his lecture “Beyond Absolutism, Pluralism, Relativism” at 7 p.m. Monday, March 22, […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 19, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Apprising Ministries has been giving you peeks e.g. in pieces like Callid Keefe-Perry, Ken Silva, And Theology After Google and The Emerging Church Pushing Progressive Theology In Google Era at the new kind of Progressive Christianity—Liberalism 2.0—now being cobbled together in Emerging Church. I also told you in Liberalism 2.0 The New Progressive Christian Theology that A New Kind […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 18, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
In pieces like The Emerging Church Pushing Progressive Theology In Google Era and Ken Silva Answers Philip Clayton you can see Apprising Ministries has come up on the radar screen in covering, and being critical of, a recent Emerging Church progressive theology heresy-fest called Theology After Google (TAG). TAG was put on by Dr. Philip Clayton as a way […]