By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 18, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
Apprising Ministries continues with this issue we first brought to your attention in Jacksonville Berean Baptist “Peeping Pastor” Secretly Videotaped Girls Changing. There we find the sordid story of Greg Neal, co-pastor of Berean Baptist Church in Fleming Island, FL. along with his dad Dr. Tom Neal. Briefly, WAWS FOX30 out of Jacksonville told us in Pastor will not face […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 17, 2011 in AM Missives, Apologetics, Current Issues, Features
“Who being the brightness of (His) glory” (verse 3). In this verse the Holy Spirit continues to set forth the excellencies of Christ, and in the same order as in the preceding one. First, the Divine dignity of His person, His relation to the Father—He is the Brightness of His glory. The Greek verb from […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 16, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian"
As part of my continuing coverage of the growing New Downgrade No-Controversy here at Apprising Ministries, which is actually accelerating in the mainstream evangelical community, I focused your attention upon “the Reverend” Vincent Lachina. We’re told he’s “former pastor at the Grace Gospel Chapel” and a full time chaplin with Planned Parenthood in Seattle. [1] As you can see in the Planned Parenthood […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 15, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
The following is originally published at Herescope and is republished here with permision: Can yogic practices be integrated with the Christian faith? By Pastor Larry DeBruyn Whatever trend happens to be in vogue at a particular moment, Christians readily respond with a “Jesus approved” version. When dieting became the rage, Christian dieting shortly followed. As […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 15, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
Apprising Ministries has been warning you in articles like Rick Warren, John Piper & Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism and Word Faith Heretics Like Creflo Dollar Draw Nearer To Evangelical Acceptance of a growing syncretism within the mainstream of the evangelical community. Believe it or not, these flakes in the WF movement are right now even gaining more credibility within evangelical […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 15, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
In recent articles like Acts 29 Network And Reformed Counter Reformation Spirituality and John Piper, Rick Warren & Foster-Willardism I’ve expressed concern here at Apprising Ministries about so-called New Calvinism, which itself appears to be a postmodern form of Calvinism embracing both Reformation theology and the spurious spirituality of Counter Reformation Roman Catholicism. [1] Then […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 14, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Devotions, Features
Come dear ones and gather ‘round, and I’ll tell you the story — all about Him. I saw the crowds who followed Him, as He walked the streets — of Jerusalem. The Word became flesh, we beheld His face, yes, dear ones — God became man. His name is Jesus and I testify, that Jesus […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 12, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian", Southern Baptist Convention
The online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries continues with the documentation of the New Downgrade No-Controversy, which is actually accelerating in the mainstream evangelical community. A classic example is Tony Jones Argues For Open Marriage And Polyamory where I clearly showed you a professor of a doctorate level course in Christian Spirituality at the ostensibly evangelical Fuller […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 11, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
By Apprising Ministries correspondent Mike Ratilff of Possessing the Treasure If anyone teaches a different doctrine which neither agrees with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness, he has become conceited, having understood nothing, but having a morbid craving for controversies and disputes over words, out of […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 10, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian"
As an online apologetics and discernment labor in the Lord Apprising Ministries is doing what we can to expose the warped and toxic teachings of the sinfully ecumenical neo-liberal cult of the Emergent Church aka the Emerging Church, [1] which tragically, mainstream evangelicalism chose to embrace rather than purge from its ranks. So let’s consider that we now have on our […]