By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 11, 2012 in Beth Moore, Current Issues, Features, Southern Baptist Convention
By Apprising Ministries special correspondent Bob DeWaay Beth Moore denies that she promotes approaches to prayer that have Eastern overtones. The issue arose from her participation on the Be Still DVD which has been critiqued on this site by Ingrid and then Brian Flynn. Brian and I viewed a segment of Beth Moore on that DVD. We found disconcerting her […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 10, 2012 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
Sola fide and sola gratia, as used in the Protestant Reformation, form the basis of a God-centered Gospel meaning that while the sinner is dead in his trespasses and sins God Himself sovereignly regenerates those whom He will. By His gift of grace God gives them the faith to believe in Christ, and they repent of their sins. […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 10, 2012 in Current Issues, Features
Further reading PROPHET-LEADER CRAIG GROESCHEL AND AN EVANGELICAL GANGSTA’S PARADISE PROPHET-LEADER STEVEN FURTICK DESCENDS DOWN TO WORD FAITH HERETIC ROD PARSLEY CHRIS ROSEBROUGH LOOKS AT JAMES MACDONALD AND THE ELEPHANT’S DEBT
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 10, 2012 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Roman Catholicism
Further reading THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH HASN’T CHANGED ITS CONDEMNATION OF THE GOSPEL DR. R.C. SPROUL: IT’S SIN FOR A BORN AGAIN CHRISTIAN TO REMAIN WITH THE APOSTATE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH SOUTHERN BAPTISTS ASSIST THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH TO INFILTRATE EVANGELICALISM
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 10, 2012 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
The other day in the Apprising Ministries piece Elephant Room Curator James MacDonald And The Elephant’s Debt I directed you to a website called The Elephant’s Debt: From Exodus To Jubilee, which presents some pretty troubling documentation concerning Harvest Bible Chapel (HBC). If you didn’t know, Elephant Room curator James MacDonald—founder of Harvest Bible Fellowship—is senior pastor of HBC. I’ve also […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 10, 2012 in Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren
HT: Whom Will Ye Serve Further reading RICK WARREN, JOEL OSTEEN TO APPEAR ON OPRAH’S ‘LIFECLASS’ RICK WARREN AND TEACHINGS OF DEMONS RICK WARREN AND DAILY HOPE GOD TURNS US INTO STUART SMALLEYS
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 10, 2012 in Current Issues, Features
By Christian Research Network contributor Christine Pack of Sola Sisters This is a repost of an original article on Sola Sisters Jonathan Cousar, City of Deception A friend and fellow writer, Jonathan Cousar, was interviewed last week on Christian talk show host Brannon Howse’s daily radio show. Jonathan was a long-time member of Tim Keller’s church (Redeemer Presbyterian) in Manhattan. […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 8, 2012 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
Apprising Ministries has told you that the Elephant Room 2, with its mainstreaming of Word Faith mogul and prosperity preacher T.D. Jakes really detonated as an explosion within mainstream contemporary evangelicalism and its aftermath continues spreading shockwaves throughout professing Christendom. So far we’ve witnessed cracks forming in The Gospel Coalition, Acts 29 Network, and the Harvest Bible Fellowship, […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 8, 2012 in Current Issues, Devotions, Features
In every generation, there are those of an officious spirit who aspire to leadership, demanding deference from their fellows. Such men — especially when they are endowed with natural gifts above the average — are the kind who become the founders of new sects and parties, and insist upon unqualified subjection from their followers. Their […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 8, 2012 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
I do what I can here at Apprising Ministries to cover The Falling Away Of The Evangelical Church, which is the article that essentially launched me among those who are also pioneering this still developing work of online apologetics and discernment ministry. Despite the whining of our critics, this is a mission field the Lord has raised up […]