By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 10, 2010 in Current Issues, Features, Roman Catholicism
By Mike Gendron of Proclaiming the Gospel Ministries Many former Catholics have described their experience of going to weekly Mass as a prison sentence, something they had to do in order to avoid the penalty of a serious sin. Others remember it as a mindless ritual of standing, sitting, kneeling and reciting as the priest […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 10, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Word Faith
A couple of weeks ago in Paula White Hawks Her Upcoming Super Conference With Heretics-Я-Us , here at Apprising Ministries, I told you about something that “life coach, author, motivational speaker” Paula White—now billed as Senior Pastor—is/was hosting something called Super Conference 10.10.10 (SC 10). You can see here that this gathering of Heretics-Я-Us will feature/would have featured the mythical Word Faith […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 7, 2010 in Current Issues, Features
By AM correspondent Daniel Neades of Better Than Sacrifice The Willow Creek Association’s Global Leadership Summit 2010 has just ended. According to its website, the Leadership Summit ‘exists to transform Christian leaders around the world with an injection of vision, skill development, and inspiration for the sake of the local church.’ They had some big […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 7, 2010 in Current Issues, Features, Word Faith
By Apprising Ministries correspondent Chrystal Whitt of Slaughter of the Sheep In the following videos, Benny Hinn defends himself against the allegations made against him in The National Enquirer. He admits he and Suzanne had problems in their marriage because of his ministry, and says that his friendship with Paula White is now over because […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 6, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian"
“Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a person’s enemies will be those of his […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 6, 2010 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
By Apprising Ministries correspondent Mike Ratilff of Possessing the Treasure Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall. (2 Peter 1:10 ESV) Some “evangelical leaders” in our time will tell you that transformation is actually part of the gospel […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 4, 2010 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test! (2 Corinthians 13:5) Paying A Price For False “Decisional Regeneration” You probably know that back on July 28th ‘Vampire’ Author Anne Rice ‘Quits’ Christianity; as […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 4, 2010 in Current Issues, Features, Roman Catholicism
By Apprising Ministries correspondent Christine Pack of Sola Sisters Author Anne Rice, best known for her Vampire Lestat chronicles which were popular in the 90s, rather famously “converted” to Christianity in 1998…which she has now publicly rejected. But did she really convert in the first place? The truth is that Anne Rice grew up […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 4, 2010 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Southern Baptist Convention
Free and warm reception into the divine favor is the strongest of all motives in leading a man to seek conformity to Him who has thus freely forgiven him all trespasses… [But t]he tendency of the present day is to underestimate sin and to misunderstand its nature. From the Cross of Christ men strike out […]