By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 24, 2011 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
By Apprising Ministries correspondent Christine Pack of Sola Sisters In a recent article, popular emergent author Donald Miller (Blue Like Jazz) pondered who feels closer to God: liberal theologians or conservative theologians. In this article, Miller also deconstructed the personality traits of both liberals v. conservatives through the use of something known as the Enneagram […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 24, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple. But he answered them, “You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.” As […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 23, 2011 in Current Issues, Devotions, Features, Quotes
In one of his letters to Erasmus, Luther said, “Your thoughts of God are too human.” Probably that renowned scholar resented such a rebuke, the more so, since it proceeded from a miner’s son; nevertheless, it was thoroughly deserved. We too, though having no standing among the religious leaders of this degenerate age, prefer the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 23, 2011 in Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren, Southern Baptist Convention
I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel—not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. But even if we or an angel from heaven should […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 23, 2011 in Current Issues, Features
Apprising Ministries is an online apologetics and discernment work specializing 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. Sadly, this is a time of growing spiritual darkness and blindness, which is why I’ve been warning you about […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 22, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren, Rob Bell, Southern Baptist Convention
Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? (1 Corinthians 5:6) Today Evangelicalism Is Full Of Leaven The leading online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries has pointed out that a part of our labor in the Lord is the documenting of the painfully obvious New Downgrade within mainstream evangelicalism; obvious at least for those […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 22, 2011 in Current Issues, Features
From the IB Times report False Doomsday prophet Harold Camping followers receive solace from Calvary Bible Church Milpitas: Members of churches near Oakland, Calif. based Family Radio, are pouring out in droves, offering comfort and spiritual support to the dejected followers of false Doomsday prophet Harold Camping, who has predicted that the World will end on May 21, […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 21, 2011 in Current Issues
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 of apostasy—pushed along by 1 Peter 4:17 judgments—headed toward the church visible. Not a few of these judgments have come through evanjellyfish’s foolish embrace of the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 20, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian", Jay Bakker
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.[1] This is […]