By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 10, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
If everything you know about Christian living came from blogs and websites in the young-and-restless district of the Reformed community, you might have the impression that beer is the principal symbol of Christian liberty. For some who self-identify as “Young, Restless, and Reformed,” it seems beer is a more popular topic for study and discussion […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 9, 2011 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features
Apprising Ministries is doing what we can to help alert you to the 1 Peter 4:17 judgments now coming upon the church visible in large part rooted in the foolish decision by mainstream evangelical leaders to not purge the sinfully ecumenical neo-liberal cult of the Emergent Church aka the Emerging Church from its ranks. [1] […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 8, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ, being […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 7, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian"
Apprising Ministries first brought this Emerging Church apostasia-palooza conference Christianity 21 (C21) to your attention in Tony Jones And Christianity 21: The Future Of Apostate Christianity. You may know that the apostate Dr. Tony Jones is to teach “The Doctor of Ministry cohort in Christian Spirituality” [1] at Fuller Theological Seminary and is the progressive/liberal “theologian in residence” at the Emerging Church […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 6, 2011 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren, Southern Baptist Convention
For God is not a God of confusion but of peace. (1 Corinthians 14:33) So Tell Me, Which Way Is The Wind Blowing? For at least the past six years now online apologetics and discernment ministries like Herescope, as well as here at Apprising Ministries, have warning about the growing infestation within evangelicalism of critical thinking […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 5, 2011 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features
A good question asked by Phil Johnson, executive director for Grace to You and who blogs at Pyromaniacs, today on Twitter as a way to point us to his post Should Type-R Charismatics Get A Free Pass? Here at Apprising Ministries I’m covering and documenting The New Downgrade that’s going on unopposed within the mainstream of the evangelical […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 4, 2011 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.’ “ (Jeremiah 6:16) Don’t Look Now, But Your Youth Are Already Infected As part of the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 3, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
Apprising Ministries functions with other soldiers against error in the mission field of online apologetics and discernment along the Internet Front of this Truth War. Sadly, spiritual blindness continues to spread as the Lord sends 1 Peter 4:17 judgments upon the church visible and the new traditions of men within mainstream evangelicalism. For example, look at recent AM articles like […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 2, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
As we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners much gain by fortune-telling. She followed Paul and us, crying out, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to you the way of salvation.” And […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 31, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Rob Bell
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world. […]