By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 21, 2008 in Quotes, Rob Bell
It’s interesting how many traditions (pause) When you read the great enlightened ones; meditation, centering prayer, reflection—in every tradition you can find the mystics—and what’s always at the heart of the spiritual lives, the everyday lives of the great ones was always a period of time. Whether it’s prayers, chanting, meditation, reflection, study—whatever you call it—what […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 21, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Homosexuality/"Christian"
To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their minds and their consciences are defiled. They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work. (Titus 1:15-16, ESV) When Our Creator God Spoke […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 20, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian"
DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA! Tony Jones, author of the book The New Christianity Christians and a leading theologian in the Emergent Church is out of the closet now concerning his views that unrepentant practicing homosexuals can become Christians, which Apprising Ministries first pointed out in Tony Jones and the Emergent Church: “Christian” Gay is A-Ok. We took a […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 19, 2008 in Current Issues
In an essay aptly titled A Human Approach to World Peace Dalai Lama, supposedly the current manifestation “of the Bodhisattva (Buddha) of Compassion, who chose to reincarnate to serve the people” expresses a dream which, alas, can never be: We practitioners of different faiths can work together for world peace when we view different religions as essentially instruments to […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 19, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Southern Baptist Convention
It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery. (Galatians 5:1, NASB) How Would You Know If You Were Being Taught False Doctrine? At the Lifeway: Biblical Solutions for Life website of the Southern Baptist Convention we read: Together again […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 19, 2008 in Current Issues, Features, Southern Baptist Convention
On its present course of apostasy within its “leadership” (can you even have leadership with autonomy as an accountability system?) the Southern Baptist Convention will find out the hard way that the Idol of Autonomy they bow before is an unfaithful harlot. From the Baptist General Conference of Missouri: In June representatives from Kansas City area Baptist […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 18, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Spiritual Formation
Apprising Ministries draws to your attention a story in The Leaf Chronicle of Clarksville, TN; yes, that Clarksville, concerning the way more and more who profess Christianity are currently becoming involved with the corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) at the heart of spurious Spiritual Formation snake-oil sold by Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster. Given a veneer of scholasticism by Foster’s spiritual twin Dallas Willard, at its […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 18, 2008 in Current Issues
The following is actually right in line with a couple of recent Apprising Ministries articles Emerging Eastern-Style Meditation for Global Peace…and Worse… along with Phyllis Tickle: Tickling Itching Emergent Ears. Breitbart.com is reporting: A website launched Friday with the backing of technology industry and Hollywood elite urges people worldwide to help craft a framework for harmony […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 18, 2008 in Devotions, Quotes
It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife. (1 Corinthians 5:1) The period in which we now live may well go down in history as the Erotic Age. Sex love has been elevated […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 18, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Features
Below you’ll see religious writer Phyllis Tickle hawking her latest book The Great Emergence (TGE), which is published by Baker Books. Going onto their website as of this writing it’s pretty hard to miss Tickle’s book. Well, there’s really a little more to the story. For you see, TGE is actually from Baker’s Emersion: Emergent Village resources […]