By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 24, 2011 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features
The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders, and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 24, 2011 in Current Issues, Features, Steven Furtick
HT: Do Not Be Surprised… See also: ED YOUNG, JR U.B.U. AND PROMOTE WORD FAITH PREACHERS STEVEN FURTICK BRINGIN’ ON WORD FAITH AND THE PASTRIXES HELLO STEVEN FURTICK
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 24, 2011 in Current Issues, Features
See also: ERIC DYKSTRA AND THE CROSSING CHURCH ELK RIVER DISCUSSES ERIC DYKSTRA, CROSSING CHURCH CROSSING CHURCH OF ERIC DYKSTRA DRAWS CONTROVERSY
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 23, 2011 in Current Issues, Features, Steven Furtick
By Apprising Ministries special correspondent Erin Benziger of Do Not Be Surprised… As was mentioned in the article Steven Furtick’s 12 Days of Revival, our favorite young celebrity pastor is planning a big event for next January. He intends to gather a group of speakers together in order to cause an “eruption” of God’s power […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 23, 2011 in Current Issues, Features
The online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries continues proclaiming to you plainly that the mainstream of the evangelical community is sinking into what seems to be a New Downgrade No-Controversy. Frankly, it almost appears to me that sometimes I’m documenting the great falling way; but this much is certain [pause to let postmoderns wince], […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 23, 2011 in Current Issues, Features
See also: TIM KELLER EMERGING AS CONTEMPLATIVE PROPONENT MARK DRISCOLL, ACTS 29 NETWORK, & THE EMERGING CHURCH MATT CHANDLER AND CURIOUS DECISIONS
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 22, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Rob Bell
Apprising Ministries is an online apologetics and discernment work that’s been a leading voice against one of the major players within the sinfully ecumenical neo-liberal cult of the Emergent Church aka the Emerging Church; its original iconic rock star pastor Rob Bell. You may know that Bell’s co-teaching pastor at Mars Hill Bible Church (MHBC) has been his good friend, and […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 22, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
Apprising Ministries files this one under: You Really Just Can’t Make This Stuff Up. Ted Haggard is the disgraced former head of the National Association of Evangelicals, which I realize may even be redundant, and has been a prophet in New Apostolic Reformation. Now yesterday in Pastor Ted Haggard to Appear on ABC’s ‘Celebrity Wife Swap’ Paulette Cohn of xfinity news tells us: […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 22, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
In this time of growing apostasy within the church visible, as an online apologetics and discernment work helping to pioneer this much-needed field, Apprising Ministries continues on in our coverage of the falling away of the evangelical community with its new traditions of men (cf. Mark 7:9). One of them in our pouty postmodern centerd on the self […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 21, 2011 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features
One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?” “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.’ ” “ ‘Love […]