By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 4, 2009 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian"
In Did Nadia Bolz-Weber Just Call Jesus “A Schmuck”? I reminded our many new readers, particularly those who’ve come to Apprising Ministries because of our coverage of the recent tragic vote mortally wounding the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA), that AM has long been maintaining Mainstream Evangelicalism Is Now On The Rapid Slide To Apostasy. The main reason for this is […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 4, 2009 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
…always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth. (2 Timothy 3:7) Say Goodbye To The Christian Faith Apprising Ministries now shows you that Guru Brian McLaren, incontrovertably a premier leader within the egregiously ecumenical Emerging Church aka Emergent Church—morphing into Emergence Christianity—(EC), has officially announced he would simply like a different god than the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 3, 2009 in Current Issues
Critics of proper Bibical Christianity love to trot out this quote from Mahatma Gandhi: “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” So, let’s take a moment put this into proper context and fix it once, and for all: “I like the Christ whom I have made up in my own […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 3, 2009 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church
Apprising Ministries brings to you to an interesting piece concerning emerging church philosopher/theologian Peter Rollins Darling Of Emergence Christianity. For those who’ve actually listened to Peter Rollins, which you can do for example in Adele Sakler And Peter Rollins, you’ll know that the picture to the left represents what Rollins and others in the egregiously ecumenical Emerging Church aka Emergent Church—morphing into […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 3, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. (Psalm 119:105, ESV) Attacking Scripture Apprising Ministries is an online apologetics and discernment ministry extending from Connecticut River Baptist Church, the small local church where I am pastor-teacher. As such, it is literally a part of my calling in Christ to point out that there […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 2, 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). Along this line I have reminded you a few times now about the upcoming Emerging Church conference Christianity 21 (C 21) October 9-11. It’s important to keep in mind that […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 2, 2009 in Quotes
To a typical Pharisee, what Jesus was saying to Nicodemus [in John 3] would likely have come across as highly offensive. Jesus was attacking the very core of Nicodemus’s belief system, plainly implying that Nicodemus was lost, spiritually lifeless, and ultimately no better off in his rigid Pharisaism than an utterly immoral Gentile without God. Indeed, […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 1, 2009 in Current Issues, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian"
In posts such as Contemplative Spirituality Growing Within Mainstream Evangelicalism and The Nightmare Beginning For Mainstream Evangelicalism here at Apprising Ministries I’ve been attempting to alert you to a very dark and threatening same-sex storm that is right now approaching hurricane force, and which is currently only slightly off the coast of the mainstream evangelical community. And further, that the egregiously ecumenical Emerging Church aka Emergent […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 1, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Devotions, Features
For the word of the LORD is upright, and all His work is done in faithfulness. He loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of the steadfast love of the LORD. By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, and by the breath of His mouth all their host. He gathers the waters of the sea […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 31, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian"
Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.” Come back to your senses as you ought, and stop sinning; for there are some who are ignorant of God—I say this to your shame. (1 Corinthians 15:33-34) Interlocking Circles Emerging Again In Meet Outlaw Preachers yesterday Apprising Ministries posted the new video from the rather rapscallion bunch, […]