By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 14, 2012 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
As Apprising Ministries monitors the Net and social media one of the trends I’m seeing is postmodernism’s effects slithering more deeply into the professing Christian community. Combined with the sappy sentimentality spread by practice of Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism people are now deciding issues by their feelings. My point being, it simply doesn’t matter one iota how we may feel […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 14, 2012 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
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 prey […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 14, 2012 in Current Issues, Features
Apprising Ministries began our coverage in What’s Up With Liberty Universary where I told you that Mitt Romney, a devout member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons) was to address Liberty University (LU) graduates at the 2012 Commencement ceremony this past Saturday, May 12. You also saw that another practicing Mormon, Glenn Beck, gave the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 14, 2012 in Current Issues, Features
HT: Pyromaniacs See also: THE “JESUS” OF MORMONISM ALA GLENN BECK TONY JONES ARGUES FOR OPEN MARRIAGE AND POLYAMORY MARCUS BORG AND CHRISTIANS WHO DON’T BELIEVE IN JESUS
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 13, 2012 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
In past Apprising Ministries articles like Jay Bakker Critiques Ken Silva At Religion Dispatches and Gay Christian Singer Jennifer Knapp Out On Larry King Live I’ve warned you that looming only slightly off the horizon of the mainstream evangelical community there is a same-sex storm that’s gathering hurricane force. The issue of the deviant and sinful lifestyle of having sexual relations […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 12, 2012 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Features
[mejsvideo src=” https://www.apprising.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Oprah-Denies-Jesus2.mp4″ width=640 height=360] See also: OPRAH WINFREY SPEAKING AS A “CHRISTIAN” OPRAH WINFREY, JOEL OSTEEN & CHRISTIAN POST WILL THE REAL JESUS PLEASE STAND UP?
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 12, 2012 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Spiritual Formation
By Apprising Ministries special correspondent Bob DeWaay Church history tells us that the charge pietistic reformers level against the church is that the church practices “dead orthodoxy.” Some years ago I hosted a pastor’s meeting at which pastors could discuss theological ideas. Position papers were presented and then critiqued by the group. Some of the pastors came from […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 12, 2012 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
See also: BEWARE OF EMERGING SPIRITUALITY AND EMERGENCE THEORY THE EMERGING CHURCH AND THE NEW PROGRESSIVE THEOLOGY ON CHRIST THE EMERGING CHURCH AND THE NEW PROGRESSIVE THEOLOGY ON OTHER RELIGIONS
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 11, 2012 in Current Issues, Features
Apprising Ministries has told you that the Elephant Room and its second incarnation, which was much worse, have sent out silent shockwaves have damaged more structures than we can yet see. You may believe me when I tell you that ER2′s most devastating effects have yet to see their full manifestations. One now becoming evident is […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 11, 2012 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 Don’t You Understand That You’re Really Only 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 […]