By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 9, 2010 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features
For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. (2 Timothy 4:3-4, ESV) Using Medieval Mystics To Tells Us Myths Apprising Ministries brings to […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 8, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Along with the online apologetics and discernment ministry Lighthouse Trails Research (LTR), in our post Has Leonard Sweet Been “Disinvited” By Calvary Of Albuquerque?, Apprising Ministries been covering what’s now becoming The Saga of Skip and Sweet. The last information we had was found yesterday in the LTR post Calvary Chapel Albuquerque States: Leonard Sweet Will Not Be Speaking at Conference – Lighthouse Trails […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 7, 2010 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
They built the high places of Baal in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to offer up their sons and daughters to Molech, though I did not command them, nor did it enter into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin. (Jeremiah 32:35, ESV) Throwing Your Evangelical Young Into […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 7, 2010 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features
Apprising Ministries wonders: When did occultic automatic writing i.e. channeling become part of Protestant evangelicalism; well, apparently it is now. The following, published by Thomas Nelson, is a vivid illustration of the grave spiritual danger of the corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM), which is perpetrated as so-called Spiritual Formation (SF), e.g. by Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster along with his […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 6, 2010 in AM Missives, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
From time to time Apprising Ministries brings you the often insightful comments Christian apologist Chris Rosebrough by presenting segments of his Fighting for the Faith (FftF) program on Pirate Christian Radio (PCR). Here we point you to a post at the fine online apologetics and discernment work Sola Sisters (SS); it’s called Chris Rosebrough Interviewed About Emergent Conference. In it you’ll find the link to where Rosebrough talks […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 6, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
As an online apologetics and discernment work sent forth by Jesus it’s part of the job description that Apprising Ministries keep you apprised of issues going on within the visible church. One of those going on right now I began covering in Bloggers Target Seminary President Ergun Caner. There I pointed you to a web-only report by John […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 5, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren
This online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries has been among those who’ve been reporting on an ill-advised decision by Dr. John Piper to bring Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren into the Desiring God Conference 2010 as the keynote speaker. Unfortunately, it got even worse when Dr. Piper defended his decision; and so, Warrengate is now slowly simmering: At root I think [Rick Warren] is […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 4, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
Apprising Ministries points you to yesterday’s Crosstalk radio program with host Ingrid Schlueter and her guest Sarah Leslie. The Crosstalk website tells us: Sarah Leslie is an author and researcher, a member of the board of directors of Discernment Ministries and also a member of the Discernment Research Group. In response to the May Day event […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 3, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
A religion which is all excitement, and has little instruction in it, may serve for transient use; but for permanent life-purposes there must be a knowledge of those great doctrines which are fundamental to the gospel system. I tremble when I hear of a man’s giving up, one by one, the vital principles of the gospel […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 3, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren
This online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries has been among those who’ve been reporting on an ill-advised decision by Dr. John Piper to bring Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren into the Desiring God Conference 2010 as the keynote speaker. And so, Warrengate is now slowly simmering because, unfortunately, it got even worse when Dr. Piper defended his decision: At root I think [Rick […]