By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 30, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
The online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries has been covering the damage that’s been done by evangelicalism’s embrace of the sinfully ecumenical neo-liberal cult of the Emergent Church aka the Emerging Church—with its “big tent” Progressive Christianity aka Emergence Christianity. By using warped and toxic teachings of EC leaders like Emerging Church rock star […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 29, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Part One Part Two See also: GREG BOYD HERETIC IT’S NOT OK TO NOT LIKE DOCTRINE OF HELL ROB BELL DEFENDING LOVE WINS MYTHOLOGY
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 28, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation
By Apprising Ministries special correspondent Bob DeWaay There are no extraordinary Christians; but being an ordinary Christian is an extraordinary thing. How I wish I would have understood that when I was a new Christian. But I didn’t. Soon after my conversion I began a quest to become the best possible Christian. In so doing I fell […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 28, 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] In recent articles like Acts […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 25, 2011 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Southern Baptist Convention
Apprising Ministries labors in the still developing mission field of online apologetics and discernment ministry monitoring Intel along the Internet Front, among other things. What many don’t seem to realize is information moves at warp speed on the Net; but at the same time, much of what I show you here each day won’t find its way […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 25, 2011 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Erwin McManus, Features
Question: “What is Lectio Divina?” Answer: LectioDivina is Latin for “divine reading,” “spiritual reading,” or “holy reading” and represents a method of prayer and scriptural reading intended to promote communion with God and to provide special spiritual insights. The principles of lectio divina were expressed around the year A.D. 220 and practiced by Catholic monks, […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 25, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
It has become fashionable amongst Christians to see the Genesis account of creation as not literal. The reason is mainly an attempt to find common ground between so-called “science” and the Bible. The problem with “science” There is a proper way and an improper way of “doing” science. There are a few good, and many more bad scientists in the world today. (By […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 25, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
There are some believers with strong and vigorous faith. Soaring high, they can mount up with wings as eagles. Fleet of foot, they can run, and not be weary; or, with steady progress, they can walk, and not faint. But all are not so highly pivileged. I suppose there is seldom a family which has no sickly member. However […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 23, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Devotions, Features
Having spent much time in prayer over this, I’m convinced that the mainstream Christian community is approaching a crossroad. It is my firm conviction in the Lord that those of us in the Body of Christ need to begin to cry out to Him, as His Church, for His direction because it certainly seems that we have sought the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 23, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
It has been five years since Christianity Today published Collin Hansen’s article titled “Young, Restless, Reformed.” Hansen later expanded the article into a book with the same title (Wheaton: Crossway, 2008). He has carefully documented a very encouraging trend: large numbers of young people (college age and younger) are discovering the doctrines of grace, embracing […]