Category: Current Issues
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 6, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
[They] and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. (2 Timothy 4:4) But You’re Really Worshipping Yourself Along the lines of the Apprising Ministries post The Emergence Of A New God, here we’ll hear a bit more about the mystic mush god with a man-shaped hole in its heart, now […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 6, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
As a tsunami of apostasy—pushed along by 1 Peter 4:17 judgments—heads toward the church visible the online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries has been documenting the growing falling away of the mainstream evangelical community. Not a few of these judgments have, and will still, come through evanjellyfish’s foolish embrace of the sinfully ecumenical neo-liberal […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 6, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Apprising Ministriesis an online apologetics and discernment work which has begin specializing in analyzing these current trends in the visible church, apprising you as to what they are, and then informing you as to how you can deal with them. Due to increasing syncretism it’s now become increasingly difficult to cover the various strains of […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 5, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
This just in from Internet News headquarters, where our motto is: If it’s news; it’s news to us. Dateline Anywhere USA; maybe even Your Town: This just in…the world’s gone mad. Ok, that’s not so new; but did you know that the ego of “Protestant” Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren has apparently expanded to the point […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 5, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren, Southern Baptist Convention
As Os Guinness pointed out in a perceptive series of articles on the church-growth movement, traditional evangelicalism not only resisted worldly influences, but also used to stress “cognitive defiance” of the world spirit. Now, however, “the world has become so powerful, pervasive, and appealing that the traditional stance of cognitive defiance has become rare and […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 4, 2011 in Current Issues, Features, Theology
Augustine argued that there are four states, which are derived from the Scripture, that correspond to the four states of man in relation to sin: (a) able to sin, able not to sin (posse peccare, posse non peccare); (b) not able not to sin (non posse non peccare); (c) able not to sin (posse non […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 3, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren, Southern Baptist Convention, Word Faith
Here at the online apologetics and discernment Apprising Ministries, I’ve been following the aftermath of the dubious decision made by Dr. John Piper to have Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren as the keynote speaker at the DG 2010 conference Think: The Life of the Mind & the Love of God. Piper-Warrengate grew warmer when it […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 3, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren, Southern Baptist Convention
…he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. (James 1:8) First Let Me Say, It’s Not About You; So Here, Now Let Me Tell You All About You Apprising Ministries is pleased to remind you that in his article The Gospel According to Warren a few years ago Dr. Gary Gilley tells us that […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 3, 2011 in Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren, Southern Baptist Convention
HT: Rapture Forums See also: RICK WARREN THE THEOLOGICAL CHAMELEON JOHN PIPER, RICK WARREN & FOSTER-WILLARDISM SADDLEBACK CHURCH OF RICK WARREN USING ROB BELL TEACHINGS
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 3, 2011 in Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren, Southern Baptist Convention
As the interview [John Piper conducted with Rick Warren] drew to a close I saw that many of the predominant concerns I have with The Purpose Driven Life as well as Warren’s wider ministry went unaddressed. Let me speak to just 2 of them. And I think this is the crux of what I am […]
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