Category: Current Issues
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 7, 2011 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Spiritual Formation
“These are the statutes and rules that you shall be careful to do in the land that the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess, all the days that you live on the earth.” “You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served their gods, […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 6, 2011 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Spiritual Formation
And the Lord said to me: “The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I did not send them, nor did I command them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a lying vision, worthless divination, and the deceit of their own minds.” (Jeremiah 14:14) One River That Is God But Many Streams […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 5, 2011 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Rick Warren, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation
…they are full of things from the east and of fortune-tellers like the Philistines, and they strike hands with the children of foreigners. (Isaiah 2:6) Circle Up The Wagons We’re Heading Home To Rome Evangelicals are quick to praise Charles Spurgeon, who stood tall for the purity of God’s Gospel during the Downgrade Controversy; this […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 4, 2011 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Roman Catholicism
“Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their hearts, and set the stumbling block of their iniquity before their faces. Should I indeed let myself be consulted by them?” (Ezekiel 14:3) Interspiritual Compromise In Christ’s Name In the Vatican II document Nostra Aetate (NA), “Declaration On The Relation Of The Church To […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 3, 2011 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Critics of online apologetics and discernment works such as Apprising Ministries are under the mistaken impression that someone like myself goes “looking for” these issues I’ve been covering these past 5+ years as Jesus has built this ministry of His Gospel. They couldn’t be more wrong. What usually happens is I’ll receive an email or message […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 3, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren, Southern Baptist Convention
It’s simply an indisputable fact that, even now, a part of its spiritually lurid legacy of the upgraded sinfully ecumenical Emerging Church aka Emergent Church is its fueling the current fad of Protestant evangelicals practicing corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) ala Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster—and his spiritual twin Dallas Willard. So a large part of the online apologetics […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 3, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it. For there are many who are insubordinate, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision party. (Titus 1:9-10) You Need To Know This Is Not A […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 3, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
The Lord be praised that He has seen fit to open the door for Apprising Ministries to have become one of the leading voices against the sinfully ecumenical Emergent Church aka the Emerging Church, a neo-liberal cult now operating within mainstream evangelicalism. Its primary legacy is that through its core doctrine of corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM), masquerading as spurious Spiritual Formation ala Living Spiritual Teacher and […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 3, 2011 in Current Issues, Features, New Apostolic Reformation, Rick Warren, Word Faith
The Lord reigns; he is robed in majesty; the Lord is robed; he has put on strength as his belt. Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved. (Psalm 93:1) A Most Positive Confession: Soli Deo Gloria! While rumors of an alleged affair with top level Word Faith heretic Benny Hinn, which you can read […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 2, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren
Here at the online apologetics and discernment Apprising Ministries, I’ve been following the aftermath of the dubious decision made by Dr. John Piper to have Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren as the keynote speaker at the recently concluded DG 2010 conference Think: The Life of the Mind & the Love of God. Being a Southern Baptist […]
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