By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 27, 2011 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Rob Bell
As a leading online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries has been warning you for a long time about the toxic teachings the Emerging Church rock star pastor Rob Bell, co-teaching pastor at Mars Hill Bible Church along with his good friend Shane Hipps. Those not under the spell of Rob Bell, who’re willing to […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 26, 2011 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Apprising Ministries is a leading online apologetics and discernment work that’s been tracking the Emerging Church along the Internet Front of the Truth War for six years now. [1] Just a little over a year ago in pieces like The Emerging Church Pushing Progressive Theology In Google Era and Ken Silva Answers Philip Clayton you can see AM came up on […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 25, 2011 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Southern Baptist Convention
Apprising Ministries labors in the still developing mission field of online apologetics and discernment ministry monitoring Intel along the Internet Front, among other things. What many don’t seem to realize is information moves at warp speed on the Net; but at the same time, much of what I show you here each day won’t find its way […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 25, 2011 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Erwin McManus, Features
Question: “What is Lectio Divina?” Answer: LectioDivina is Latin for “divine reading,” “spiritual reading,” or “holy reading” and represents a method of prayer and scriptural reading intended to promote communion with God and to provide special spiritual insights. The principles of lectio divina were expressed around the year A.D. 220 and practiced by Catholic monks, […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 25, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
It has become fashionable amongst Christians to see the Genesis account of creation as not literal. The reason is mainly an attempt to find common ground between so-called “science” and the Bible. The problem with “science” There is a proper way and an improper way of “doing” science. There are a few good, and many more bad scientists in the world today. (By […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 25, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
There are some believers with strong and vigorous faith. Soaring high, they can mount up with wings as eagles. Fleet of foot, they can run, and not be weary; or, with steady progress, they can walk, and not faint. But all are not so highly pivileged. I suppose there is seldom a family which has no sickly member. However […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 23, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Devotions, Features
Having spent much time in prayer over this, I’m convinced that the mainstream Christian community is approaching a crossroad. It is my firm conviction in the Lord that those of us in the Body of Christ need to begin to cry out to Him, as His Church, for His direction because it certainly seems that we have sought the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 23, 2011 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Rob Bell
See also: KEN SILVA INTERVIEWS LARRY DIXON, AUTHOR OF “FAREWELL, ROB BELL” ROB BELL AND POSTMODERN NEO-LIBERALISM ROB BELL ON THE RECORD CONCERNING SCRIPTURE
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 23, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
It has been five years since Christianity Today published Collin Hansen’s article titled “Young, Restless, Reformed.” Hansen later expanded the article into a book with the same title (Wheaton: Crossway, 2008). He has carefully documented a very encouraging trend: large numbers of young people (college age and younger) are discovering the doctrines of grace, embracing […]