By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 17, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. (2 Timothy 4:3-4) Tell Me Some Nice Bedtime Stories For My Wild Goose Chase I’ve said […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 17, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Word Faith
Apprising Ministries is a online apologetics and discernment labor in the Lord and part of my commission as pastor-teacher is to help make you aware of trends within the church visible. I wish I had better news but as I survey the horizon I see a tsunami of apostasy on the way; in large part […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 17, 2011 in Current Issues, Features
As part of our online apologetics and discernment labors Apprising Ministries been documenting the New Downgrade within evangelicalism and I’ve been talking about The Build-A-God Shop, a venue where you can come in and share the characteristics of the god of your choosing. Right now there are those furiously building a version of the mush god of mysticism […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 16, 2011 in Current Issues, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian"
As the Emerging Church, now upgraded to version 2.0 with its newer, more clearly delineated postmodern Progressive Christian theology, spreads like a spiritual staphylococcus aureus infection a main focus of this particular online apologetics and discernment work here at Apprising Ministries has been monitoring and exposing the neo-liberal cult of the Emergent Church. For example, […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 16, 2011 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
“Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying: ‘ These people draw near to Me with their mouth, And honor Me with their lips, But their heart is far from Me. And in vain they worship Me, Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ ” (Matthew 15:8-9) Pious Words And Deeds Have Never Fooled God […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 15, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Homosexuality/"Christian", Jay Bakker
Thus says the LORD:”Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’ I set watchmen over you, saying, ’Pay attention to the sound of the trumpet!’ But they […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 15, 2011 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
In recent articles like The Emerging Church On A Wild Goose Chase and More On—The god Of The Emerging Church and The Emerging Church, Doug Pagitt & Process Theology here at Apprising Ministries I’ve further developed an analogy I heard originally from Chris Rosebrough; The Build-A-God Shop, a venue where you can come in and […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 15, 2011 in Current Issues
And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. (2 Peter 2:3) Mysticism Is Now A Force Uniting Apostates Apprising Ministries is an online apologetics and discernment work which has specialized in analyzing current trends in the visible church, apprising you as to what they are, and informing you as to how you […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 14, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian"
As part of our online apologetics and discernment labors Apprising Ministries been documenting the New Downgrade within evangelicalism, the root of which roughly begins with the charismatic revival as it spreads through the Jesus People/Movement circa early 1970′s out into various denominations and into what became the Fuller Theological Seminary School of World Mission. This […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 14, 2011 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
By Jon Cardwell, pastor of Sovereign Grace Baptist Church Look, love him or leave him, the one thing that you can count on with Ken Silva is that he calls ‘em as he sees ‘em and he tells it like he sees it. Ken has been my friend since my family and I were ministering […]