By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 12, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian"
“Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you?” (Luke 6:46, ESV) To Ignore God’s Word Is To Ignore Him No doubt the dreadful and awesome, glorious and majestic, LORD God Almighty Who revealed Himself in His inerrant and infallible Word in Holy Scripture i.e. the Bible does whatever pleases […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 12, 2010 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation
HT: Pirate Christian Radio See also: CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY CATALYST PETER SCAZZERO CALVINIST CONTEMPLATIVE/CENTERING PRAYER? DONALD WHITNEY AND EVANGELICAL CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY/MYSTICISM RICHARD FOSTER’S LEGACY ENDURES: CHRISTIAN LEADERS HELP TO MAKE IT SO THE TERMINOLOGY TRAP OF “SPIRITUAL FORMATION” CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY OF RICHARD FOSTER ROOTED IN THE EASTERN DESERT AND THOMAS MERTON PASTOR KEN SILVA—THE HIJACKING OF […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 11, 2010 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths. (2 Timothy 4:3-4, NASB) Birds Of A Foul Feather […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 11, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian"
…knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone’s own interpretation. For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit. (2 Peter 1:20-21, ESV) Putting The Bible On Trial Awaiting Execution Apprising Ministries has been warning you […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 10, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Word Faith
Apprising Ministries has shown you e.g. in John Crowder And The New Mystics that there’s a younger section of the Word Faith Movement that’s so far out there we can’t even get a radar fix on them, to use the words of my good friend Bud Press of Christian Research Service. Chrystal over at Slaughter of the Sheep is […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 8, 2010 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church
In his post An Open Letter to YouthWorks Tony Jones, heretical “theologian in residence” at the emerging church Solomon’s Porch, gives a bit of history concerning YS: Let me join the chorus of voices welcoming Tic Long back to Youth Specialties, now part of the YouthWorks world. Tic was nothing but gracious to me over my ten years […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 8, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
I’ve pointed out many times now that as a general rule, and a courtesy, we do not publish email without the permission of the sender. However at the same time, all email sent to AM and Christian Research Network is considered the property of Apprising Ministries so we may indeed publish unsolicited email for the purposes of […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 8, 2010 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren
Apprising Ministries brought to your attention in posts such as Rick Warren Wants Us To Know Peter Scazzero that Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren has actually been pushing the door open for corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) ala Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster—and his spiritual twin Dallas Willard—within the mainstream of evangelicalism for quite some time now. Which is […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 8, 2010 in Current Issues
In this piece from Baptist Press we find out that the non-Christian cult the Church of Scientology is launching a frontal assault in Nashville, which happens to be home for the Southern Baptist Convention: The Church of Scientology placed a “free personality test” — Scientology’s “Oxford Capacity Analysis” — as a paid insert into The Tennessean […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 8, 2010 in Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church
HT: Need God As I mentioned in Will Rob Bell Jump Now? men like heretical quasi-universalist Emergence Christianity (EC) pastor Doug Pagitt, along with his partner in spiritual crime—his equally heretical “theologian in residence” Tony Jones, are absolutely not simply stating the historic orthodox Christian faith in a way understandable to today’s postmodern generation. No, what Pagitt, his friend Rob Bell, and others […]