By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 26, 2011 in Current Issues, Features
By Apprising Ministries correspondent Mike Ratilff of Possessing the Treasure Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 26, 2011 in Current Issues, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian"
Apprising Ministries continues doing what we can to alert spiritually obtuse pretending to be Protestant evangelicals to the grave dangers and deceptions of embracing the Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) perpetrated by Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster, along with his friend and spiritual twin SBC minister Dallas Willard, as so-called Spiritual Formation (SF). But CSM is nothing more than refried Roman Catholic mysticism with […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 25, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Rob Bell
Thus says the Lord: “Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’” (Jeremiah 6:16) Neo-Gnostics Believe They’re In The Gno I’ve told you before e.g. in Apprising Ministries: Rob […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 24, 2011 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
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. I’ve also told you that EC progressive/liberal theologians such as Dr. Philip Clayton of the Transforming Theology network and Tony Jones, heretical “theologian in residence” at the church of his equally heretical quasi-universalist pastor Doug […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 24, 2011 in Current Issues, Features, Quotes
Any Christian worth listening to loves the cross and is loath to see it robbed of its glory. To ridicule what the cross accomplished is to make war with the heart of the gospel and the comfort of God’s people… No doubt, some Christians get worked up over the smallest controversies, making a forest fire […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 23, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Rob Bell
To the teaching and to the testimony! If they will not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn. (Isaiah 8:20) Behold The Cult Of A Postmodern Neo-Liberalism Apprising Ministries has been blessed of Jesus to be used as one of His leading online apologetics and discernment works for coverage of the warped and toxic teachings […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 23, 2011 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Rob Bell
Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood. I know that after my departure fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock; and from among your own selves will […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 22, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Rob Bell
How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? (Romans 10:14) How About You; Can You Handle The Truth? Apprising Ministries notes that there’s no shortage of confusion today, inside the visible […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 22, 2011 in Current Issues, Features
By Apprising Ministries correspondent Mike Ratilff of Possessing the Treasure And he said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, “‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ You leave the commandment […]