By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 21, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian"
Apprising Ministries has been covering the growing gay agenda within the church visible for the past year. It’s simply beyond question that it is causing major problems in the dying mainline denominations who long ago kicked out Sola Scriptura in favor of highly subjective Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, which is actually a new form of Gnosticism. Through […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 19, 2009 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Features, Richard Foster, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation
It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery. (Galatians 5:1, NASB) Right Back To The Dark Ages Following a trail that was initially cut by the online apologetics and discernment ministry Lighthouse Trails Research years before Apprising Ministries has […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 19, 2009 in Current Issues
When I met with [Mormon apologist] Robert Millet I expressed my conviction as clearly as possible that the God of the Bible is a completely different God from the god of Mormonism, that the Christ of Scripture is a wholly different Christ from the christ of Mormonism, and the true gospel is a radically different […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 18, 2009 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Richard Foster, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation
The following look at The Dangers of Spiritual Formation and Spiritual Disciplines is taken from a review by Bob DeWaay, pastor of Twin City Fellowship, of the book The Spirit of the Disciplines by Dallas Willard: The spiritual disciplines that are supposedly necessary for spiritual formation are not defined in the Bible. If they were, there would […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 17, 2009 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Apprising Ministries has told you that Samir Selmanovic has served as a member of the Coordinating Group for Emergent Village of the egregiously ecumenical Emerging Church aka Emergent Church—morphing into Emergence Christianity (EC)—which is a cult of postliberalism now firmly within mainstream evangelicalism. Selmanovic was also a contributing author to An Emergent Manifesto of Hope (AEMoH)—which was edited by the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 17, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
For people will be lovers of self. (2 Timothy 3:2, ESV) Interlocking Circles Centered On Self With limited manpower, being that I am but one man, I do what I can here at Apprising Ministries to uncover disturbing trends within the mainstream of the evangelical community of the church visible. Primarily, as a former Roman Catholic, I focus on […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 16, 2009 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
The reigning school of American theologians has progressed from bad to worse. We only have to deal with Harry Emerson Fosdick in the 1920s; but then, it accelerated to Edwin Lewis, Nels F.S. Ferre, Reinhold Niebuhr, and on from Niebuhr to Paul Tillich, and crowned in Rudolph Bultmann. Not one single one of those men […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 16, 2009 in Current Issues, Features
Apprising Ministries has pointed out that Perry Noble, Senior Pastor of NewSpring Church in South Carolina, is one of the allegedly infallible Purpose Driven/Seeker Driven Popes Of The Carolinas along with Steven Furtick. In the March 3, 2009 post Thr3e at his blog Noble tells us: Pastor Steven Furtick is one of my best friends on the planet…and so when I […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 16, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
Before every bed-time story sermon Joel Osteen continues the tradition begun by John Osteen, his late father and fellow Word Faith prosperity gospel preacher. Based upon their belief in the erroneous “positive confession” teaching Osteen has his followers confess concerning the Bible. Their mistaken idea is when people confess positive things they are speaking “faith-filled […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 16, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
Our friend Joel Taylor of 5 pt. Salt tells us: 5ptsalt.com recently reported in this post how purpose-driven Carolina pope and Rick Warren underling Perry Noble and his NewSpring Church had basically tried to ruin the life of Dr. James Duncan, and we pointed you to his site for a very detailed explanation. In case […]