By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 8, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Rob Bell
As a leading online apologetics and discernment work, Apprising Ministries has been warning you about the teachings the Emerging Church rock star pastor Rob Bell, co-teaching pastor at Mars Hill Bible Church along with his good friend Shane Hipps. For at least the past five years now I’ve also been covering the growing infestation within evangelicalism of critical thinking skills-numbing corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM), such as that taught by Living […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 5, 2011 in Current Issues, Features
By Apprising Ministries correspondent Mike Ratilff of Possessing the Treasure Now when Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet, saying to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 4, 2011 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Rob Bell
Robbed Hell – C.A.S.T. Pearls Presents from Canon Wired on Vimeo. See also: APPRISING MINISTRIES: ROB BELL RESOURCES ROB BELL DEFENDING LOVE WINS MYTHOLOGY SOMETHING SEEMS OFF AT MARS HILL BIBLE CHURCH
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 4, 2011 in Current Issues, Features
The doctrine of our regeneration, or new birth in Christ Jesus, though one of the most fundamental doctrines of our holy religion; though so plainly and often pressed on us in sacred writ, “that he who runs may read.” Nay though it is the very hinge on which the salvation of each of us turns, […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 3, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
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 preach […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 2, 2011 in Current Issues, Features
Modern men have been so much impressed with this element in Jesus’ teaching that they have sometimes been inclined to regard it as the very sum and substance of our religion. We are not interested, they say, in many things for which men formerly gave their lives; we are not interested in the theology of […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 1, 2011 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Rob Bell
By Apprising Ministries correspondent Mike Ratilff of Possessing the Treasure Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 1, 2011 in Current Issues, Features, Joel Osteen, Rob Bell
Apprising Ministries now points you to an interesting “chat,” which personally purports to be between Word Faith heretic Joel Osteen and the Emerging Church rock star pastor Rob Bell. ;-) See also: JOEL OSTEEN: SMILE WHEN YOU LIE ROB BELL DEFENDING LOVE WINS MYTHOLOGY APPRISING MINISTRIES: ROB BELL RESOURCES
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 1, 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; however, there’s been much talk around the blogosphere recently about the Love Wins mythology of the Emerging Church rock star pastor […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 1, 2011 in Current Issues, Features
We have often heard statements such as “War is Hell or “I went through hell.” These expressions are, of course, not taken literally. Rather, they reflect our tendency to use the word hell as a descriptive term for the most ghastly human experience possible. Yet no human experience in this world is actually comparable to […]