By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 12, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Devotions, Features
“I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy.” “I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 12, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. (James 4:4) There Can Be No Unity With Such As These Apprising Ministries has been attempting to alert you e.g. in Doug Pagitt […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 11, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Rob Bell
Now that mainstream evangelicalism has embraced the sinfully ecumenical neo-liberal cult of the Emergent Church aka the Emerging Church at Apprising Ministries I’ve been warning you about the judgments coming upon the church visible. This is why EC rock star pastor Rob Bell can argue for the heresy of Christian Universalism in his Love Wins mythology […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 11, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Southern Baptist Convention
Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, while evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. (2 Timothy 3:12-13) Christian Soldiers Standing Up For Jesus? In many of our local fellowships on a given Sunday we could hear a congregation […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 11, 2011 in Current Issues
Apprising Ministries is very grateful for the ways God has been extending this labor in the Lord, far beyond anything we’d ever dreamed or imagined when we began this fully integrated auxiliary from Connecticut River Baptist Church (SBC), where I serve as pastor-teacher. And as I’ve mentioned previously, even though my local church is affiliated […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 10, 2011 in Current Issues, Features
Apprising Ministries has been warning about, and documenting, the sad slide of largely pretending to be Protestant evangelicalism into becoming what I’ve referred to as The Ecumenical Church Of Deceit (ECoD); and much of the current sorry state of the church visible can be traced back through to the semi-pelagian (at best) man-centered Church Growth […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 10, 2011 in Current Issues, Features
By Apprising Ministries correspondent Mike Ratilff of Possessing the Treasure Οἴδαμεν δὲ ὅτι τοῖς ἀγαπῶσιν τὸν θεὸν πάντα συνεργεῖ εἰς ἀγαθόν, τοῖς κατὰ πρόθεσιν κλητοῖς οὖσιν. (Romans 8:28 NA27) And we know that to the ones who love God, He works all things together for their good according to His purpose. (a direct translation of […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 9, 2011 in Current Issues, Features
Question: “Is hell real? Is hell eternal?”It is interesting that a much higher percentage of people believe in the existence of heaven than believe in the existence of hell. According to the Bible, though, hell is just as real as heaven. Answer: The Bible clearly and explicitly teaches that hell is a real place to […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 9, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Rob Bell
Apprising Ministries has been warning you about the judgments coming upon the church visible now that mainstream evangelicalism has embraced the sinfully ecumenical neo-liberal cult of the Emergent Church aka the Emerging Church; which is why EC rock star pastor Rob Bell can argue for the heresy of Christian Universalism in his Love Wins mythology and still be considered an evangelical. […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 6, 2011 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Rob Bell
Unfortunately evangelicalism would make the foolish decision to embrace of the sinfully ecumenical neo-liberal cult of the Emergent Church, with leaders e.g. like the unholy trinity of apostates, Living Spiritual Teacher and EC guru Brian McLaren, universalist Emerging Church pastor Doug Pagitt, and his friend Tony Jones, the progressive “theologian in residence” at Solomon’s Porch. As a result Apprising Ministries continues following our mission to document the falling […]