By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 15, 2009 in Devotions
While Paul was waiting for [Silas and Timothy] in Athens, he was greatly distressed to see that the city was full of idols. So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the God-fearing Greeks, as well as in the marketplace day by day with those who happened to be there. A group of […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 15, 2009 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
In articles such as Christianity 21: Emerging Voices Of A Pseudo-Christian Faith and Tony Jones And Christianity 21: The Future Of Apostate Christianity, a while back, Apprising Ministries first brought to your attention this Emerging Church C21 conference coming up in October. You may know that C 21 is being put on by JoPa Prodictions, […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 15, 2009 in Current Issues, Features
The subtitle of this excellent article by pastor Bob DeWaay referenced below is: Defining the Believer’s Biblical Call to Judge. Those who wish to make a stand for proper Biblical Christianity will often be quoted verse 1 from Matthew 7 – Do not judge lest you be judged. However, as you’ll see in this important teaching from […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 14, 2009 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Apprising Ministries presents the following to show you where the evangelical community within the visible church will be/is heading now that its largely rejected the all-sufficiency and final authority of the Bible i.e. Sola Scriptura to follow its lust for Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism masquerading as Spiritual Formation as taught by Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster. In the grand […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 14, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Apprising Ministries has long been maintaining that Mainstream Evangelicalism Is Now On The Rapid Slide To Apostasy because of its ongoing embrace of the egregiously ecumenical Emerging Church aka Emergent Church—morphing into Emergence Christianity—(EC), as I recently pointed out in Did Nadia Bolz-Weber Just Call Jesus “A Schmuck”? Now along this line in Jurgen Moltmann Conversation we told you of […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 14, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Joel Osteen, Steven Furtick, Word Faith
In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. (2 Peter 2:3) Lust For Numbers Makes Strange Spiritual Bedfellows A while back Apprising Ministries brought out that sadly today there are so many in the apostatizing evangelical community who are burying their heads within the spiritual sand of whatever offshoot—rooted in the semi-pelagian Church Growth Movement—it is that highjacked their particular brand […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 13, 2009 in Brian McLaren, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church
Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD (Jeremiah 23:1, KJV). It Is More Than A Little Bit Suspicious In this series I’m attempting to employ the same methodology as a reporter piecing together a story or that of a detective whose suspicions have become aroused. […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 13, 2009 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. (2 Timothy 4:4) But You’re Worshiping Yourself Along the lines of the Apprising Ministries post The Emergence Of A New God, here we hear a bit more on the mystic mush god with a man-shaped hole in its heart preached by the egregiously ecumenical […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 12, 2009 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Quotes
You can see these people in the cults and the occult if you have any degree of discernment at all because they are outside the church. But how do you see the Presbyterian, Baptist, Methodist, Lutheran, Episcopalian professor of theology? How do you get him in a place where you can find out his theology […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 11, 2009 in Joel Osteen
Tonight Steven Furtick, one of the Popes of the Carolinas, gushes: stevenfurtick Great night w a great man of God. Thx Pastor Joel 4 your humility & msg of hope. Love & honor! http://yfrog.com/0rto4j (Online source)