By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 30, 2012 in Current Issues, Features
Is Pragmatism Really a Serious Threat? I am convinced that pragmatism poses precisely the same subtle threat to the church in our age that modernism represented nearly a century ago. Modernism was a movement that embraced higher criticism and liberal theology while denying nearly all the supernatural aspects of Christianity. But modernism did not first […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 24, 2012 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Joel Osteen
Apprising Ministries often functions spiritually as a kind of Reconnaissance, Surveillance, and Target Acquisition( RSTA) unit along the Internet Front of this Truth War. I pointed out during my appearance Tonight Matters With Ken Silva Of Apprising Ministries that the Net is moving 6 months to a year ahead of the main of the Christian community. With this […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 24, 2012 in Current Issues, Features
By Christian Research Network Associate Editor Erin Benziger of Do Not Be Surprised… This is a repost of an original article on Do Not Be Surprised… With the passing of Charles Colson on 21 April 2012, obituaries and remembrances of him appear to fall into one of two categories. The mainstream media seems content to focus on […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 23, 2012 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
Being an online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries does not involve itself in politics per se; however, there are times when those issues will cross, as is the case with popular conservative talk show host Glenn Beck. Lately it’s becoming more apparent that Beck, who is a baptized member in good standing with the non-Christian […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 23, 2012 in Current Issues, Devotions, Features
Thus the LORD used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses turned again into the camp, his assistant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent. Moses said to the LORD, “See, you say to me, ‘Bring up this people,’ […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 23, 2012 in Current Issues, Features
[I]t was just in October 2010 when two Mormon leaders felt it was necessary to expound on an old sermon, point by point, by Mormonism’s thirteenth President Ezra Taft Benson called “The Fourteen Fundamentals in Following the Prophet.” In this message, Benson reminded his audience that the Mormon prophet “is the only man who speaks […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 22, 2012 in Current Issues, Features
See also: EMERGING ECUMENICAL EVANGELEPHANTS AND THE WORD FAITH MOVEMENT VODDIE BAUCHAM, WHO TURNED DOWN AN ER2 INVITE, SPEAKS OUT ON THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM EVANGELEPHANT
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 22, 2012 in Current Issues, Features
HT: Discern The Time See also: WHAT’S UP WITH LIBERTY UNIVERSITY MORMONISM DECLARED WAR ON CHRISTIANITY THE gOD OF GLENN BECK
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 21, 2012 in Current Issues, Features, Southern Baptist Convention
Unfortunately, spiritual darkness grows and so Apprising Ministries continues monitoring the apostasy metastasizing within mainstream evangelicalism for theChristian Research Network. While this is going on I’m watching a sickening syncretism that seems to be spreading through increasing charismania and corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM). Pietism inherent in the CSM of Foster-Willardism is causing people to jettison the proper Christian spirituality of sola Scriptura in place […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 21, 2012 in Current Issues, Features
By Christian Research Network Associate Editor Erin Benziger of Do Not Be Surprised… This is a repost of an original article on Do Not Be Surprised… In mid-April, while many Christians earnestly scanned the Twitter stream and their favorite blogs for soundbites and one-liners from the Together for the Gospel (T4G) conference, another gathering was taking place several cities […]