By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 28, 2011 in Current Issues, Features
And there are a lot of new-Calvinists today who are basically followers of Charles Finney when it comes to the actual practice of ministry. You can’t staple Reformed Theology to a basically Finny-ite, revivalistic, ecclesiology. It’s fire and water. And people really aren’t going to be nurtured, at least by the people who preach to them week […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 27, 2011 in Current Issues, Features, Word Faith
And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. (2 Peter 2:3) Mysticism 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 can deal with them. Six years […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 27, 2011 in Current Issues, Features
Perhaps the most notable institutional example of the drift from affirming the inerrancy of Scripture to affirming the infallibility of Scripture was Fuller Theological Seminary. Its original statement of faith (written several years after its founding in 1947) contained the following article on Scripture: “The books which form the canon of the Old and New […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 27, 2011 in Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren, Southern Baptist Convention
Apprising Ministries has pointed out that a part of our labor in the Lord is our documenting of the painfully obvious New Downgrade going on within mainstream evangelicalism; not unlike The Downgrade Controversy Charles Spurgeon dealt with many years ago, which should be more and more obvious, at least for those blessed by God with eyes […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 26, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God… And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth… No one has ever seen God; the only God, […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 26, 2011 in Current Issues, 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 Scotty McCreery just won American Idol, and you may recall our piece Harold Camping Prepares 4 Judgment Day. […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 25, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction. (Proverbs 1:7) Why There Are So Many Fools Teaching About God? The online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries has been documenting the growing falling away of the mainstream evangelical community; and I’ve warned you that there is a tsunami […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 25, 2011 in Current Issues, Features, Quotes
Now the task of hermeneutics is to realize, first of all, that there is a God given meaning in Scripture, apart from you or me or anybody else. Scripture means something if means nothing to me, understood? It means something if it means nothing to you. It means something if it means nothing to anybody. […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 25, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
I’ve pointed out many times now that as a general rule, and a courtesy, we do not publish email without the permission of the sender. At the same time, all email sent to AM and Christian Research Network is considered the property of Apprising Ministries so we may indeed publish unsolicited email for the purposes […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 24, 2011 in Current Issues, Devotions, Features
No matter what the circumstances begin to look like as spiritual darkness continues to fall, and the days of evil come while this apostasy keeps spreading throughout man-centered evangelicalism, we who are in Christ will understand that the Bible is a supernatural Book. A truly amazing Book—written by the Spirit for our merciful Father in Heaven to […]