By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 10, 2010 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
…they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them. (1 John 4:5) Giving Them What They Want It’s becoming more and more obvious that Brian McLaren, a leading guru in the sinfully ecumenical Emerging Church aka Emergent Church—that morphed into Emergence Christianity—(EC), has made a tactical blunder with his latest book A New Kind Of Christianity (ANKoC). Recent […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 9, 2010 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Apprising Ministries is glad to see there are those who are beginning to look harder through the postmodern fog of the sinfully ecumenical Emerging Church aka Emergent Church—that morphed into Emergence Christianity—(EC). As a result we’re beginning to see some public dissention surfacing, even among the loving and tolerant “Christ-followers”; particularly it seems concerning EC guru Brian McLaren, heretical EC pastor Doug Pagitt, and his […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 9, 2010 in Quotes
According to modern liberalism, faith is essentially the same as “making Christ Master” in one’s life; at least it is by making Christ Master in the life that the welfare of men is sought. But that simply means that salvation is thought to be obtained by our own obedience to the commands of Christ. Such […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 9, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Southern Baptist Convention
Southern Baptist pastor Ed Young, Jr is the very popular Purpose Driven/Seeker Driven pastor of a megachurch known as Fellowship Church (FC) in Grapevine, TX. Young’s bio at FC tells us: Ed Young is a pastor, author and conference speaker noted for his creative communication style. He has a passion for making the complex, simple as he […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 8, 2010 in Current Issues, Southern Baptist Convention
As a follow-up to SBC Pastor Ed Young Jr In Luxury Cover-Up? here at Apprising Ministries I point you to Ed Young Jr’s blog where he tells us he’s Setting Things Straight and Moving On. In introducing his video of the same title at his blog today Young, Jr says: I took the opportunity to thank […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 8, 2010 in AM Missives
As I told you e.g. in Emerging Church And TransFORM’s Steve Knight “Communication + Mission” specialist Knight founded this latest network of the sinfully ecumenical Emerging Church aka Emergent Church—that morphed into Emergence Christianity—(EC). Today Knight wants us to know that: just posted a comment for Jeremy @Bouma on his post “Goodbye Emergent”: http://bit.ly/b1rziT (Online source) You may recall Jeremy Bouma from the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 8, 2010 in Current Issues, Features, Quotes, Theology
By this divine work the sinner is re-created in and to newness of life, has the defilement of his heart cleansed or “washed” away (Ezek. 36:25-26; John 3:5; Titus 3:5), and is [supernatually] enabled to “see” and to “enter” the kingdom of God by faith (John 3:3, 5). He is also enabled to believe in […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 7, 2010 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Southern Baptist Convention
In articles like Dr. Jay McDaniel And Mysticism At Northwest Nazarene Universary and Southern Baptist Convention Embracing The Emerging Church and Rick Warren And Peter Scazzero With Messed-Up Monk-ee Bizness here at Apprising Ministries I continue to warn of the crippling effects of corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) ala Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster, with an assist from his spiritual twin Dallas […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 7, 2010 in Quotes
Now-a-days, if a man is very reverent towards the word of God, and very desirous to obey the Lord’s commands in everything, people say, “He is very precise,” and they shun him; or, with still more acrimony, they say, “He is very bigoted: he is not a man of liberal spirit;” and so they cast […]