By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 3, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren, Southern Baptist Convention
…he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. (James 1:8) First Let Me Say, It’s Not About You; So Here, Now Let Me Tell You All About You Apprising Ministries is pleased to remind you that in his article The Gospel According to Warren a few years ago Dr. Gary Gilley tells us that […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 1, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
For at least the past six years now online apologetics and discernment ministries like Lighthouse Trails Research, as well as here at Apprising Ministries, have warning about the growing infestation within evangelicalism of critical thinking skills-numbing corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM), such as that taught by Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster along with […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 1, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
“Ok, now let us all gather ‘round little children and I’ll tell you the story about the seeker sensitive ‘Jesus’ of the man-pleasing purpose driven and emerging word faith church…the Ecumenical Church of Deceit…” Now once upon a time in an ecumenical emerging postmodern nation far, far in the very fertile imaginations of the Church […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 30, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren, Southern Baptist Convention
“Do two walk together, unless they have agreed to meet?” (Amos 3:3) The Lord Will Always See Through Anyone’s Attempt At “File Cabinet Orthodoxy” I’ve pointed out before that the Lord chose to raise up Apprising Ministries as an online apologetics and discernment work; as such, it’s a large part on my mission here to cover […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 26, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God… And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth… No one has ever seen God; the only God, […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 25, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction. (Proverbs 1:7) Why There Are So Many Fools Teaching About God? The online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries has been documenting the growing falling away of the mainstream evangelical community; and I’ve warned you that there is a tsunami […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 25, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
I’ve pointed out many times now that as a general rule, and a courtesy, we do not publish email without the permission of the sender. At the same time, all email sent to AM and Christian Research Network is considered the property of Apprising Ministries so we may indeed publish unsolicited email for the purposes […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 24, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple. But he answered them, “You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.” As […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 22, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren, Rob Bell, Southern Baptist Convention
Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? (1 Corinthians 5:6) Today Evangelicalism Is Full Of Leaven The leading online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries has pointed out that a part of our labor in the Lord is the documenting of the painfully obvious New Downgrade within mainstream evangelicalism; obvious at least for those […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 20, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian", Jay Bakker
As part of our online apologetics and discernment labors Apprising Ministries been documenting the New Downgrade within evangelicalism, the root of which roughly begins with the charismatic revival as it spreads through the Jesus People/Movement circa early 1970′s out into various denominations and into what became the Fuller Theological Seminary School of World Mission.[1] This is […]