By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 5, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren
Apprising Ministries has been among the online apologetics and discernment ministries keeping you up to speed on Warrengate. This all began when Dr. John Piper made the dubious decision to make Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren the keynote speaker at the recently concluded DG 2010 conference Think: The Life of the Mind & the Love of God. In the initial aftermath, it seems […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 4, 2010 in Current Issues, Features, Richard Foster
In Rick Warren And Peter Scazzero Up To Monk-ee Business earlier at Apprising Ministries I told you Leadership Network’s propped up Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren had conference back in February called Radicalis at his Saddleback Church. Radicalis featured Dr. Ed Stetzer along with his Acts 29 cohort Mark Driscoll, as well as Perry Noble, Kerry Shook, and Andy Stanley; I also reminded […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 4, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Lately I’ve been telling you here at Apprising Ministries that evangelicalism made a horrible mistake when it embraced the sinfully ecumenical neo-liberal cult of the Emerging Church—a veritable Trojan Horse full of heresy—now blossomed into an Emerging Church 2.0 pushing its new form of postmodern Progressive Christianity as “big tent” Emergence Christianity. AM is doing what we can to cover, and document, issues within […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 4, 2010 in Current Issues, Leonard Sweet
This online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries has shown you e.g. in Leonard Sweet, Frank Viola, And The Third Way and Giving Leonard Sweet A Nudge that thoroughly postmodern Emergence Christianity theologian Leonard Sweet is part of The New Downgrade And Its Apostles Of Unbelief: Following below is an interesting tweet he just sent out: (Online source) See also: […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 3, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren, Word Faith
For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. (2 Timothy 4:3-4) Discerning By Niceness By carrying posts like Desiring God Selling Bible Study […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 3, 2010 in Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren
The following Critical Issues Commentary by Bob DeWaay, pastor of Twin City Fellowship, is republished at Apprising Ministries with permission: “He is also head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the first-born from the dead; so that He Himself might come to have first place in everything” (Colossians 1:18) Several months […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 2, 2010 in Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren
By AM correspondent Daniel Neades of Better Than Sacrifice Much of modern evangelicalism seems to be fixated upon the idea that we can only progress as individual Christians and the church if we are pursing a dream or vision. This tendency is epitomized in these two claims: Nothing happens till somebody starts dreaming. What we […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 2, 2010 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
In posts like Doug Pagitt Points Us To Michael Dowd and Doug Pagitt Agrees With Evolutionary Evangelist Michael Dowd the online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries introduced you to Rev. Michael Dowd, whom I first brought to your attention in Jesus Died For Our Reptilian Brain. Dowd is “an ordained Christian minister with a Master of Divinity degree”[1] and author of Thank […]