By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 11, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
Perry Noble is the influential senior pastor of the NewSpring Church, whose identity will certainly be more on the rise after being a featured speaker at the upcoming Radicalis conference at the Saddleback Church of Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren. Noble’s also at the center of the controversy he seems to be trying to ignore, which you can read […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 10, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Rick Warren
Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour. They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us. But […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 9, 2009 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren
As you can see in previous Apprising Ministries articles such as Rick Warren And Saddleback Church: Prayer Is Not For The Novice and Saddleback Church Pastors Using Rob Bell Teachings and Southern Baptist Pastor Rick Warren And Saddleback Church Openly Recommend Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren has actually been doing so for quite some time now. Why […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 8, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian"
Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. (Ephesians 6:11-12) Prince […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 7, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation
Within a source paper called Spiritual Disciplines: Pathway to Christian Maturity (SDPCM), from the Georgia Baptist Convention (SBC), we learn what is now considered consistent with a proper Protestant approach to spirituality for Christians in the Southern Baptist Convention. Continuing along the lines of Richard Foster Forming Protestant Southern Baptist Convention Spirituality here Apprising Ministries begins with the following from Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 7, 2009 in AM Missives
In Apprising Ministries articles like and Christian Soldiers Standing Up For Jesus? and the semi-satirical Recipe For Spiritual Disaster I’ve been trying to bring to your attention how a Rodney King theology of, “Can’t we all just get along” is serving to cripple the witness of the church visible. And in We’re So Sorry, Uncle Albert, For […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 7, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
You may recall Apprising Ministries carried a post by my good friend and CRN correspondent Stephen Macasil called Perry Noble And NewSpring Church Attempt To Silence Their Critic: Dr. James Duncan. Therein Macasil informs us: Dr. James Duncan, Associate Professor of Communication at Anderson University, has written “Holy Rage at the ‘Spring,” a detailed account […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 6, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church
The goal of this command is love, which comes from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. Some have wandered away from these and turned to meaningless talk. They want to be teachers of the law, but they do not know what they are talking about or what they so confidently […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 6, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues
What follows is an important post from Stephen Macasil that orginally appears at Christian Research Network, which extends from Apprising Ministries. Macasil writes: Dr. James Duncan, Associate Professor of Communication at Anderson University, has written “Holy Rage at the ‘Spring,” a detailed account of his recent experience with NewSpring Church (Perry Noble’s church). Some of […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 3, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Devotions, Features
One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?” “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord […]