Category: AM Missives
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 12, 2011 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Jay Bakker
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 pastor Rob Bell the mainstream of […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 11, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
As I begin this piece here at Apprising Ministries I develop further an analogy I heard originally from Chris Rosebrough; The Build-A-God Shop, a venue where you can come in and share the characteristics of the god of your choosing. Then after you place your order, people scurry down to the basement of the store and get […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 9, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Rob Bell
For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 7, 2011 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features
For the household gods utter nonsense, and the diviners see lies; they tell false dreams and give empty consolation. Therefore the people wander like sheep; they are afflicted for lack of a shepherd. (Zechariah 10:2) Transformation Is Very Real…Spiritual Deception Unfortunately the spiritually obtuse seem to think the sinfully ecumenical neo-liberal cult of the Emergent […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 6, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
[They] and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. (2 Timothy 4:4) But You’re Really Worshipping Yourself Along the lines of the Apprising Ministries post The Emergence Of A New God, here we’ll hear a bit more about the mystic mush god with a man-shaped hole in its heart, now […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 6, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
As a tsunami of apostasy—pushed along by 1 Peter 4:17 judgments—heads toward the church visible the online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries has been documenting the growing falling away of the mainstream evangelical community. Not a few of these judgments have, and will still, come through evanjellyfish’s foolish embrace of the sinfully ecumenical neo-liberal […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 6, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Apprising Ministriesis an online apologetics and discernment work which has begin specializing in analyzing these current trends in the visible church, apprising you as to what they are, and then informing you as to how you can deal with them. Due to increasing syncretism it’s now become increasingly difficult to cover the various strains of […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 5, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
This just in from Internet News headquarters, where our motto is: If it’s news; it’s news to us. Dateline Anywhere USA; maybe even Your Town: This just in…the world’s gone mad. Ok, that’s not so new; but did you know that the ego of “Protestant” Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren has apparently expanded to the point […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 5, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren, Southern Baptist Convention
As Os Guinness pointed out in a perceptive series of articles on the church-growth movement, traditional evangelicalism not only resisted worldly influences, but also used to stress “cognitive defiance” of the world spirit. Now, however, “the world has become so powerful, pervasive, and appealing that the traditional stance of cognitive defiance has become rare and […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 3, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren, Southern Baptist Convention, Word Faith
Here at the online apologetics and discernment Apprising Ministries, I’ve been following the aftermath of the dubious decision made by Dr. John Piper to have Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren as the keynote speaker at the DG 2010 conference Think: The Life of the Mind & the Love of God. Piper-Warrengate grew warmer when it […]
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