By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 8, 2010 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Theology
The following by Dr. Gary Gilley, pastor of Southern View Chapel, is republished at Apprising Ministries with permission: The lovers of God’s truth can be excused if they seem to be a little “under the weather” lately, for everywhere we turn there are attacks on cardinal doctrines of the faith which most of us have considered secure and untouchable for […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 8, 2010 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Theology
Apprising Ministries is a online apologetics and discernment labor in the Lord and part of my commission as pastor-teacher is to help make you aware of trends within the church visible. I wish I had better news but as I survey the horizon I see a tsunami of apostasy on the way; in large part […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 8, 2010 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Apprising Ministries points you to the post below by AM and Christian Research Network correspondent Jim Luppachino of Watcher’s Lamp: In this piece, Big Tent Christianity Funded By Pro Abortion, Pro LBGT Ford Foundation, we see Brian McLaren’s latest campaign funded by the radically left Ford Foundation. Now, another “progressive” Christian group is underwritten by a […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 8, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Along with the online apologetics and discernment ministry Lighthouse Trails Research (LTR), in our post Has Leonard Sweet Been “Disinvited” By Calvary Of Albuquerque?, Apprising Ministries been covering what’s now becoming The Saga of Skip and Sweet. The last information we had was found yesterday in the LTR post Calvary Chapel Albuquerque States: Leonard Sweet Will Not Be Speaking at Conference – Lighthouse Trails […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 7, 2010 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
We begin this short post with the below report from One News Now that: In a building damaged by debris from the Sept. 11 airliners that brought down the World Trade Center and soon to become a 13-story mosque, some see the bridging of a cultural divide and an opportunity to serve a burgeoning, peaceful […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 7, 2010 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
They built the high places of Baal in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to offer up their sons and daughters to Molech, though I did not command them, nor did it enter into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin. (Jeremiah 32:35, ESV) Throwing Your Evangelical Young Into […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 7, 2010 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features
Apprising Ministries wonders: When did occultic automatic writing i.e. channeling become part of Protestant evangelicalism; well, apparently it is now. The following, published by Thomas Nelson, is a vivid illustration of the grave spiritual danger of the corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM), which is perpetrated as so-called Spiritual Formation (SF), e.g. by Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster along with his […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 6, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
As an online apologetics and discernment work sent forth by Jesus it’s part of the job description that Apprising Ministries keep you apprised of issues going on within the visible church. One of those going on right now I began covering in Bloggers Target Seminary President Ergun Caner. There I pointed you to a web-only report by John […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 6, 2010 in Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
The following by Dr. Gary Gilley, pastor of Southern View Chapel, is republished at Apprising Ministries with permission: McLaren continues to redefine the Christian faith in this latest effort, which follows up his book Everything Must Change. Under McLaren’s pen Christianity as defined in the Bible is now totally unrecognizable. Without question McLaren has walked away from biblical Christianity, so […]