By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 15, 2011 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Apprising Ministries is a leading online apologetics and discernment work which, among other disturbing trends within apostatizing evangelicalism, keeps you aware of the devious goings on within the sinfully ecumenical neo-liberal cult of the Emergent Church aka the Emerging Church. I also recently showed you in The Emerging Church Is Unaware It’s Dead, that far from being deceased, there is now an […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 14, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren, Southern Baptist Convention
He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. (James 1:8) Meditating Along With A Straw Man Apprising Ministries has told you that under the guise of so-called Spiritual Formation, critical thinking skills-numbing corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM), such as that taught by Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster along with his spiritual twin and Southern Baptist minister Dallas Willard, has now slithered into mainstream […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 13, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Apprising Ministries told you in posts such as Big Tent Christianity Is A Postmodern Progressive Liberalism about this new form of Progressive Christian theology—Liberalism 2.0—a theological poison, which they’ll often refer to as “big tent” Christianity (BTX) or sometimes Emergence Christianity. You need to realize that this is what Living Spiritual Teacher and leading EC guru Brian McLaren began laying out systematically in his last book A New […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 13, 2011 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Spiritual Formation
Apprising Ministries has been blessed of Jesus to be used as one of His online apologetics and discernment works becoming known for its coverage of corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM), a ne0-Gnosticism now pandemic within mainstream evangelicalism through its foolish embrace of the sinfully ecumenical neo-liberal cult of the Emergent Church aka the Emerging Church with its quasi-universalism in a new version of Progressive Christian theology under […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 12, 2011 in Current Issues
Apprising Ministries now draws your attention to a distrubing situation posted by Ingrid Schlueter at the Crosstalk Blog: Commentary by Troy Newman and Cheryl Sullenger Operation Rescue urges Calvary Chapel’s Pastor Smith to retract his advice and apologize to his listeners Costa Mesa, CA – Pastor Chuck Smith, founder of Calvary Chapel, shocked listeners on […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 11, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren, Southern Baptist Convention
O men, how long shall my honor be turned into shame? How long will you love vain words and seek after lies? (Psalm 4:2) Mysticism Opens The Door For Globalism It’s simply an indisputable fact that, even now, a part of its spiritually lurid legacy of the sinfully ecumenical Emergent Church aka the Emerging Church is its fueling the current fad of Protestant evangelicals practicing […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 10, 2011 in Current Issues, Devotions
“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.” (Matthew 7:15) Most people who have a modicum of discrimination can detect a heretic. If a man came into a pulpit and seemed to be doubtful about the being of God, and denied the deity of Christ and the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 10, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Devotions, Features
And Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How difficult it will be for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!” And the disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said to them again, “Children, how difficult it is to enter the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 9, 2011 in Current Issues, Homosexuality/"Christian", Jay Bakker
Many times, if not most times, the sin we commit is a punishment for sin. When we sin, we are actually working out God’s punishment for our sin. We are not committing a new transgression every time we sin; rather, the sinful impulses that we harbor, embrace, and and experience in our transgressions are already […]