By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 12, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
Unfortunately with no shortage of timid fellows in evangelical leadership positions today women like Ingrid Schlueter are really left with little choice than to continue to be “more man” than these other men. At Slice of Laodicea she tells it like it is regarding the Zondervan National Pastors Conference 2009. For example this year’s festival […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 10, 2009 in Quotes
I think that it is so important to know this. In a time like this of tolerance, listen, false teaching will always cry intolerance. It will always say you are being divisive, you are being unloving, you are being ungracious, because it can only survive when it doesn’t get scrutinized. So it cries against any […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 10, 2009 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism
Let us be perfectly clear here at Apprising Ministries; the idea of a deeper relationship with God is not wrong in and of itself. But it is the Lord Who draws us; we cannot “work” it up. And as I brought out in The Terminology Trap of “Spiritual Formation” what’s causing such a huge problem in the Body […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 10, 2009 in Rob Bell
Over at the Apprising Ministries outreach Christian Research Net Dave Marriott of Seeing Clearly informs us: Andy Naselli points out Rob Bell’s abuse of the original language in his Nooma 16. Naselli continues: “This is not an isolated example. When Bell talks about ancient history, customs, language, etc., he not infrequently undermines his credibility.” See […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 9, 2009 in Current Issues, Features, Marcus Borg
Combining a couple of posts from Christian Research Network, which is an outreach of Apprising Ministries: Here is Marcus Borg speaking about his view of the Bible. After watching this video, we strongly advise that you read Chris Rosebrough’s excellent apologetic article entitled “The Greatest Expert on the Scriptures Who Ever Lived And His View […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 9, 2009 in Current Issues
No matter how clearly we demonstrate it there are still those who express surprise and disbelief concerning the level to which corrupt quasi-Eastern Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) rooted in the Counter Reformation of apostate Roman Catholicism has penetrated the apostatizing and largely non-protesting “Protestant” Southern Baptist Convention. Below is eyewitness testimony to that end from an AM Reader who originally contacted me concerning the Apprising […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 8, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
The message you’ll see below from Billy Graham is supposedly consistent with the one preached by Jesus Christ and His Apostles. Apparently this is what Acts 17:6 tells us was the teaching that upset the world and would get Christ crucified and each of His Apostles, save John, killed. Below is a clip from an appearance by Billy Graham on Robert Schuller’s […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 8, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
[Jeshurun] abandoned the God who made him and rejected the Rock his Savior. They made him jealous with their foreign gods and angered him with their detestable idols. They sacrificed to demons, which are not God (Deuteronomy 32:15-17). Worshiping God The Way They Want God To Be As Apprising Ministries has been pointing out recently e.g. Phyllis Tickle […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 8, 2009 in Devotions
In this time filled with so many timid and effete men in leadership positions right now within the apostatizing evangelical community we are reminded of some words written by Dr. Walter Martin (1928-1989): the New Testament itself, the very cradle of Christianity, reflects in a startling way the fact that the faith of Jesus Christ was built […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 7, 2009 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Quotes
“Knowing Christ,” in the Pauline sense is not the sort of mystical relationship many people imagine. Paul wasn’t longing for some secret knowledge of Christ beyond what is revealed in Scripture. He wasn’t asking that private messages from Christ be whispered into his ear. In fact, the knowledge of Christ Paul sought was anything but […]