By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 13, 2012 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Devotions, Features
“If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.” (John 15:18) Jesus Wasn’t Popular With The World And Neither Will You Be For at least the past six years now online apologetics and discernment ministries like Apprising Ministries have warning about the growing infestation within evangelicalism of critical thinking skills-numbing corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM). […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 12, 2012 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation
I really must tell you that there’s really no easy way to say what I’m about to tell you in this particular piece. As a direct fruit of the the sinfully ecumenical Emergent Church aka the Emerging Church, a neo-liberal cult now operating within mainstream of the church visible, the heart of the evangelical community is fast becoming […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 11, 2012 in Current Issues, Devotions, Features
“For I say to you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.” (Matthew 5:20) Many people today—and sadly, more and more within the church—have redefined biblical concepts to fit their own human perspectives. Like the scribes and Pharisees, religionists know they can’t match God righteousness, so they […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 11, 2012 in Current Issues, Devotions, Features
So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 11, 2012 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
With the current sorry state of the mainstream evangelical community such as it is, you may wonder: How is it such confusing, and conflicting opinion in virtually every area of life, slithered into it? Well, the answer must be stated bluntly; there are too many who just do not have the proper qualifications to speak […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 11, 2012 in Current Issues, Features
Introduction SATAN IS NOT AN INITIATOR but an imitator. God has an only begotten Son – the Lord Jesus, and so has Satan – “the son of Perdition” (2 Thess. 2:3). There is a Holy Trinity, and there is likewise a Trinity of Evil (Rev. 20: 10). Do we read of the “children of God,”so also we read of “the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 10, 2012 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, T.D. Jakes
Well, this is what James MacDonald, former Gospel Coalition Council member and curator of the Elephant Room, would try and have us believe during alleged private conversations with T.D. Jakes. Apprising Ministries has been covering the slowly growing fallout in the aftermath of the ER2 since its session on January 25th of this year. Frankly, it seems […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 10, 2012 in Current Issues, Features
By Pastor Larry DeBruyn of Guarding His Flock Ministries, republished here with permission: Spectacles, Stories and Diminishing Scripture “And do not become idolaters as were some of them. As it is written, ‘The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play’.” (1 Corinthians 10:7, NKJV) “Believers, Beware!” EXODUS THIRTY-TWO may soon be coming to a theater-church near you! […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 10, 2012 in Current Issues, Features
In pieces like Perry Noble Whines About Critics…Again here at Apprising Ministries I told you that Noble is one of the new breed prophet-pastors who’re basically the Popes Of The Carolinas. You may be aware that Noble is the mentor to his faithful Seeker Driven/attractional disciple Steven Furtick, though the truth is, Furtick has already far surpassed Perry Noble. This isn’t to say […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 10, 2012 in Current Issues, Features
See also: EVANGELEPHANT EMERGING ECUMENICAL EVANGELEPHANTS AND THE WORD FAITH MOVEMENT STEVEN FURTICK, JAMES MACDONALD, AND JOEL OSTEEN