By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 11, 2009 in Current Issues, Roman Catholicism
I’ve mentioned a few times now at Apprising Ministries that I am a former Roman Catholic that, through absolutely no effort of my own, God mercifully delivered from the religious bondage of the Church of Rome into the glorious liberty of the sons of God, by His grace alone, through faith alone, in the finished work on […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 11, 2009 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren
You must not do as they do in Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. Do not follow their practices. (Leviticus 18:3) Too Far Out For Us To Even Get A Radar Fix The other day in Rick Warren […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 11, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
Perry Noble is the influential senior pastor of the NewSpring Church, whose identity will certainly be more on the rise after being a featured speaker at the upcoming Radicalis conference at the Saddleback Church of Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren. Noble’s also at the center of the controversy he seems to be trying to ignore, which you can read […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 10, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Rick Warren
Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour. They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 9, 2009 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren
As you can see in previous Apprising Ministries articles such as Rick Warren And Saddleback Church: Prayer Is Not For The Novice and Saddleback Church Pastors Using Rob Bell Teachings and Southern Baptist Pastor Rick Warren And Saddleback Church Openly Recommend Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren has actually been doing so for quite some time now. Why […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 8, 2009 in Current Issues, Features
Perry Noble, lead vocalist pastor of NewSpring Church, says that the Christian who wants to go deeper into God’s Word is a “jackass.” He also quotes John Maxwell telling us the following pietistic foolishness that supposedly “most Christians are educated way beyond their level of obedience anyway.” In Hip Pastor Blasts Those Who Want To Go Deeper […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 8, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian"
Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. (Ephesians 6:11-12) Prince […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 7, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation
Within a source paper called Spiritual Disciplines: Pathway to Christian Maturity (SDPCM), from the Georgia Baptist Convention (SBC), we learn what is now considered consistent with a proper Protestant approach to spirituality for Christians in the Southern Baptist Convention. Continuing along the lines of Richard Foster Forming Protestant Southern Baptist Convention Spirituality here Apprising Ministries begins with the following from Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 7, 2009 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
In a very interesting, and timely post today at Pyromaniacs, Phil Johnson places some excerpts “from an editorial Charles Spurgeon published in The Sword and the Trowel in 1871, more than a decade before the famous Downgrade Controversy.” If you don’t know, this was Spurgeon’s dealing with what the late cult expert Dr. Walter Martin […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 7, 2009 in AM Missives
In Apprising Ministries articles like and Christian Soldiers Standing Up For Jesus? and the semi-satirical Recipe For Spiritual Disaster I’ve been trying to bring to your attention how a Rodney King theology of, “Can’t we all just get along” is serving to cripple the witness of the church visible. And in We’re So Sorry, Uncle Albert, For […]