By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 11, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian", Jay Bakker
In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes. (Judges 17:6) The Blind Leading The Blind As spiritual blindness grows and a tsunami of apostasy approaches a large part of my task here at the online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries is to cover, and document, issues within the visible […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 11, 2010 in Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren
A brother offended is more unyielding than a strong city. (Proverbs 18:19) A Big Name In The Visible Church Doesn’t Somehow Get A Pass From Their Sin If you haven’t seen my post Rick Warren Is Lying I’ll give you a quick recap: The sad fact is Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren of the highly influential Saddleback Church lied; […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 10, 2010 in Current Issues, Features
This online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries has been documenting for you how doctrinal lines continue to be erased with great rapidity in what’s becoming The Ecumenical Church Of Deceit (ECoD). I’ve already warned you that evanjellyfish is only just beginning to pay a heavy price for its foolish embrace of the sinfully ecumenial […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 10, 2010 in Current Issues, Features, Richard Foster
A brother offended is more unyielding than a strong city. (Proverbs 18:19) A Big Name In The Visible Church Doesn’t Somehow Get A Pass From Their Sin That’s the sad fact. Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren of the highly influential Saddleback Church is caught in a lie, unless the following—which Apprising Ministries first showed you in Apprising Ministries, Rick Warren, […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 9, 2010 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church
For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 8, 2010 in Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren
By now likely you know that Dr. John Piper made the dubious decision to feature Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren as the keynote speaker at the DG 2010 conference Think: The Life of the Mind & the Love of God. Afterward Apprising Ministries showed you what some of the finest writers in online apologetics and discernment ministry had to say […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 8, 2010 in Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren
It’s no secret that the online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries is a leading critic of Rick Warren of the highly influential Saddleback Church who, like me, is a pastor within the Southern Baptist Convention. One of my writers over at Christian Research Network made me aware today of the following tweet, which would appear to be from […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 6, 2010 in Current Issues, Features
I finally gave in and made a category called Semi-Satire here at Apprising Ministries. Not unlike the Marty Python Flying Circus Church skit concerning the “Holy Ghost Hokie-Pokie” on the Pirate Christian Radio program Fighting for the Faith hosted by Chris Rosebrough, the visible church is becoming a parody of itself. As such, satire isn’t very often all that divorced […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 6, 2010 in Current Issues, Word Faith
By Bud Press of Christian Research Service To the People of St. Kitts and Nevis: Manasseh Jordan is scheduled to speak at the “Prophetic Explosion Conference” in St. Kitts on October 8-10. As his popularity grows, the three day conference has the potential to attract multiple hundreds, if not thousands of people. Manasseh Jordan claims […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 5, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Devotions, Features
For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. (Hebrews 4:12) The Gospel Has Now Been Changed In this short quote that follows below the Prince of Preachers Charles Spurgeon […]