By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 28, 2009 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Theology
Over at The Crux blog of Midwest Christian Outreach Ron Henzel, Christian apologist and Senior Researcher at MCO, continues his look at the cardinal Christian doctrine of the vicarious penal substitutionary atonement of Christ on the Cross. Henzel opened the series with Behold The Lamb and has continued with The Lamb That Was Slain and Losing Sight Of The Lamb. As […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 28, 2009 in Current Issues
I have been led across issues involving Dennis Lee, as was NBC, which you’ll see below. Now I know there are indeed many fellow ministers reading Apprising Ministries, and who are also struggling financially while laboring in various types of ministries for the Lord, so it seems good make this information concerning Dennis Lee more readily available. We wouldn’t normally cover something like this at […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 27, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Rob Bell
DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA! If you think that the Emerging Church aka Emergent Church, now morphing into Emergence Christianity, is dead or somehow is outside the mainstream of evangelicalism I admonish you in the Lord to think again. For example consider Tony Jones Speaking at Cornerstone Festival, and along with his quasi-universalist pastor Doug Pagitt, is behind an upcoming Emergence conference detailed in Christianity 21: Emerging […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 27, 2009 in Current Issues
Apprising Ministries is actually involved in much more ministry than simply the Internet. Pastor Dustin S. Segers of Shepherd’s Fellowship of Greensboro, who’s a member of AM’s board of directors, introduces some video clips of his open-air preaching, such as the one below, as he writes: Sinners are the same everywhere you go. They always […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 27, 2009 in Roman Catholicism
I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 27, 2009 in Quotes, Roman Catholicism
6. I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: [Paul] commences by administering a rebuke, though a somewhat milder one than they deserved; but his greatest severity of language is directed, as we shall see, against the false apostles. He charges them […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 27, 2009 in Devotions
For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them. (Matthew 18:20) Now, I freely admit that it is impossible to hold a Christian service without an agenda. If order is to be maintained, an order of service must exist somewhere. If two songs are to be […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 26, 2009 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Richard Foster, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation
DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA! Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all handed down to the saints. For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 25, 2009 in Current Issues, Emergent Church
Being Apprising Ministries is one the few writing about the Emerging Church aka Emergent Church, now morphing into Emergence Christianity, a source close to AM alerted us that on his public Facebook Profile today Ergun Mehmet Caner announced: LBTS BUZZ SHOT: Dr. Kevin King. New Theology Prof at [Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary]. Former Cobb Co, GA narcotics officer. Undercover Vice Officer. Deadlifts over 600 lbs. Yea, you […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 25, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Homosexuality/"Christian", Southern Baptist Convention
DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA! and with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved. For this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false, in order that they all may […]