Category: AM Missives
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 26, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian"
Thus says the LORD:”Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’ I set watchmen over you, saying, ‘Pay attention to the sound of the trumpet!’ But they said, ‘We will not […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 25, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Devotions
“Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying: ‘ These people draw near to Me with their mouth, And honor Me with their lips, But their heart is far from Me. And in vain they worship Me, Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ ” (Matthew 15:8-9) Pious Words And Deeds Have Never Fooled God Sadly, […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 24, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
In recent posts such as The Nightmare Beginning For Mainstream Evangelicalism here at Apprising Ministries I’ve been doing what I can to send a warning. The highly divisive issue of those having sexual relations with another of the same sex i.e homosexuality is now ripping apart the mainline denominations such as the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). Sadly, it’s also the immediate future of evangelicalism. For those who […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 22, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian"
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. (1 Corinthians 6:9-10, NASB) Jesus Died For All The Sins […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 21, 2009 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Rob Bell
The other day Apprising Ministries pointed out in Brian McLaren Of Emerging Church To Celebrate Ramadan that Brian McLaren, unquestionably a leading theologian in the the egregiously ecumenical Emerging Church aka Emergent Church—currently morphing into Emergence Christianity—(EC) will be “will be joining Muslim friends in the fast which begins August 21.” Now in the clip below from the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 20, 2009 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Apprising Ministries moves forward discussing an ongoing shift, drift would be the more applicable word, in the theology of the egregiously ecumenical Emerging Church aka Emergent Church—currently morphing into Emergence Christianity—(EC) toward panentheism with a flawed theosis (deification of man) as its logical conclusion; particularly evident with Brian McLaren. In the soteriology of the Eastern Orthodox Church the word theosis is classically used in […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 19, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Rob Bell
I did not send these prophets, yet they have run with their message; I did not speak to them, yet they have prophesied. But if they had stood in My Council, they would have proclaimed My Words to My people and would have turned them from their evil ways and from their evil deeds. (Jeremiah […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 18, 2009 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Devotions, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Richard Foster, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation
but every man did that which was right in his own eyes. (Judges 17:6) Contemplative Spirituality Has Slithered Right Into The Mainstream Of Evangelicalism Over at the fellow online apologetics and discernment ministry Slice of Laodicea the other day Ingrid Schuleter further highlighted mainstream evangelicalism’s embrace of corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) ala Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster and […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 18, 2009 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Lighthouse Trails Research offers us Chapter 11 of the book A “Wonderful” Deception by Warren Smith. It’s a must read if you want to understand things like Brian McLaren Of Emerging Church To Celebrate Ramadan. We are no longer surprised as Smith brings out the following: Sweet expresses his personal gratitude in [his book] Quantum Spirituality to […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 17, 2009 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Apprising Ministries asks if you might remember Anne Holmes Redding, who claims to be both a Muslim and Christian simultaneously, and whom we discussed in An Emerging Christian Muslim Priestess For Allah Says, “Jesus Led Me Into Islam.” Well, the Global Family takes another step forward; we just couldn’t make this kind of stuff up as, at his […]
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