Category: AM Missives
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 12, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren, Southern Baptist Convention, Word Faith
Whoever heeds instruction is on the path to life, but he who rejects reproof leads others astray. (Proverbs 10:17) Things Are Just Not Adding Up Right When It Comes To Rick Warren And His Activities This ongoing series concerning Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren here at Apprising Ministries really begins Dr. John Piper made the dubious decision to […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 11, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren, Roman Catholicism, Southern Baptist Convention
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 recently concluded DG 2010 conference Think: The Life of the Mind & the Love of God. For some reason, […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 10, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Devotions, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough. (2 Corinthians 11:4) Is Another Jesus Then Also The Same Jesus? […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 8, 2010 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation
The problem in our day, which gives rise to highly questionable church growth methods, is twofold: On the one hand, we are seeing a waning confidence in the message of the gospel. Even the evangelical church shows signs of losing confidence in the convincing and converting power of the gospel message. That is why increasing […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 6, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Word Faith
Through this online apologetics and discernment work here at Apprising Ministries I’ve been leading you around a huge spiritual blackhole, which I originally began covering in Word Faith “Bishop” Jim Swilley Announces That He’s Gay. That this so-called “Bishop” and pastor of The Church In The Now (CITN) informed us he’s been a homosexual for years, in and of itself, isn’t that big a deal […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 31, 2010 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Leonard Sweet
These things you have done, and I have been silent; you thought that I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you. (Psalm 50:21) Men Said, “Let Us Make God In Our Image.” The analogy I’m using in this piece here at Apprising Ministries I first heard used by a […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 31, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Roman Catholicism
What is the whole papacy but a beautiful false front and a deceptively glittering holiness under which the wretched devil lies in hiding? The devil always desires to imitate God in this way. He cannot bear to observe God speaking. If he cannot prevent it or hinder God’s Word by force, he opposes it with […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 30, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren, Word Faith
Apprising Ministries has been receiving email requests lately asking us if we intend to do any more episodes of our recurring series Name That Tweet With Host Yuni Versalism. Ok, so it was only my third cousin twice removed on my mom’ side, and Chip Monk, the plumber for my brother’s barber; but all seriousness aside, I know […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 28, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren
In Rick Warren, Dr. Destiny LaVerne Adams, And “Apostle” Chuck Pierce and Rick Warren, LaVerne Adams, And Cindy Trimm, 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 […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 26, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, we ask you, brothers, not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either by a spirit or a spoken word, or a letter seeming to be from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come. […]
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