Category: Current Issues
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 23, 2010 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features
Understand, O dullest of the people! Fools, when will you be wise? (Psalm 94:8) Contemplative Mysticism Spreading Like A Cancer Apprising Ministries continues documenting how doctrinal lines continue to be erased with great rapidity in what’s becoming The Ecumenical Church Of Deceit (ECoD). If you actually want to understand how the church visible has become so […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 22, 2010 in Current Issues, Features
By day this Purpose Driven/Seeker Driven Pope of the Carolinas, now also an author, Steven Furtick—disciple of Carolina Pope Perry Noble—is now a more mild mannered (kinda sorta) pastor; but by night he becomes a rompin’ stompin’ Old Testment-type prophet of audacious behavior faith as he recently tweeted: (Online source) So this begs the following question concerning prophet […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 22, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen. (Romans 1:25) Now Look What The Emerging Church Is Trying To Bring In Apprising Ministries has pointed out that heretical universalist pastor Doug Pagitt, along with his heretical progressive “theologian in residence” Tony Jones and Emerging Church guru Brian […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 22, 2010 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren
Apprising Ministries has told you that Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren featured contemplative guru Peter Scazzero at Radicalis this past February at Saddleback Church. You might remember that in an email promoting that conference, Chat Live with Radicalis Speaker, Pete Scazzero, Wednesday, December 9 at 11 am pst, Warren told us: Pete, along with his […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 22, 2010 in Current Issues
There, I fixed his tag-line: See also: DOUG PAGITT POINTS US TO MICHAEL DOWD JUST HOW WELL PROVEN IS EVOLUTION? TAKING EVOLUTION TO SCHOOL
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 21, 2010 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
“But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would not submit to me. So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels.” (Psalm 81:11-12) Contemplative Spirituality In Evangelicalism This online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries has been documenting for you how doctrinal lines continue to be erased […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 17, 2010 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Erwin McManus, Features, Jay Bakker, Leonard Sweet, Quotes, Richard Foster, Rick Warren, Rob Bell, Word Faith
People say, ‘Do not be negative; let us be positive; let us just preach the simple gospel’. But the Bible is full of negatives, full of warnings, ever showing us these terrible possibilities. If you find in yourself a dislike of the warnings of the Scripture and of this negative teaching, it is obvious that […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 17, 2010 in Current Issues, Features
This just in from Internet News headquarters, where our motto is: If it’s news; it’s news to us: “So when are you progressive social justice Christian-types gonna start speaking up for us, huh?” asks Tommy “Tex” Toddleroni , who heads up a group called Babies Angry Because of Yacks (BABY). Toddleroni lead a rally this past […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 17, 2010 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren
In Kay Warren, Henri Nouwen, And Contemplative Spirituality here at Apprising Ministries I showed you that on the Saddleback Church website Saddleback Family in their Spiritual Growth Center we find a Saddleback Staff Picks section; and then under Kay Warren—Acts of Mercy we come to the below: (Online source) So the first under “books that shaped Kay’s life” […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 16, 2010 in AM Missives, Apologetics, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Theology
1. The warning against false teachers Christ then said, “Beware of false prophets” (Matthew 7:15). For every true prophet calling people to the narrow way, are a multiplicity of false prophets calling people to the broad way that leads to destruction. Christ’s warning [about false teachers] was not new. Deuteronomy 13:1-5 documents the presence of […]
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