Category: Current Issues
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 18, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Southern Baptist Convention, Word Faith
Apprising Ministries told you in Luxury And Ed Young Jr that Southern Baptist pastor Ed Young, Jr—popular Purpose Driven/Seeker Driven pastor of a megachurch known as Fellowship Church (FC) in Grapevine, TX—has been dealing with allegations of living an overly luxurious lfestyle by ABC affiliate WFAA News 8 in Dallas/Fort Worth. It seems the investigation is on-going; however, you can hear the latest […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 18, 2010 in Current Issues, Features, Southern Baptist Convention
Apprising Ministries thinks this speaks quite loudly for itself…as does Ed Young, Jr U.B.U. And Promote Word Faith Preachers. We also note the irony in the Lord’s sense of humor that Ed Young, Jr, fresh from his luxury scandal concerning an alleged opulent lifestyle, should have his hero Word Faith mogul and Oneness Pentecostal heretic T. […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 18, 2010 in Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Quotes
The message of McLarenism is pretty simple: God is love and wants everyone to be kind and inclusive and care for the poor and the environment. This is what Jesus was like, and we should be like Jesus. This is, of course, not wrong in so far as it goes. The Liberal/McLaren emphasis on the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 18, 2010 in Current Issues, Features, Quotes
[T]he picture is clear: Inclusivists hold that faith can save people even though it is deficient in theological content, yet there is no place in Scripture that asserts this. Indeed, Scripture teaches the precise opposite. While I agree that people are not saved simply by assenting to discrete information, I nevertheless maintain that saving faith […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 18, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
You’re likely aware that the online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries has shown you the sinfully ecumenical Emerging Church aka Emergent Church—that morphed into Emergence Christianity (EC) was a creation of Leadership Network right along with it Purpose Driven/Seeker Driven Pope Rick Warren. In Emerging Towards Convergence Christian researcher Sarah Leslie at Herescope explains: We know that the current Emergent Church is a […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 17, 2010 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church
Apprising Ministries has taken a lot of flak for being an alleged ODM, which is a shorthand usually used in a derogatory sense for online discernment ministry. For five years now I’ve been saying that with Brian McLaren, a leading guru in the sinfully ecumenical Emerging Church aka Emergent Church—that morphed into Emergence Christianity (EC), you’ve been dealing with someone whose neo-liberal […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 16, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
You know from reading Apprising Ministries that quasi-universalist Doug Pagitt is a leading voice in the sinfully ecumenical Emerging Church aka Emergent Church—that morphed into Emergence Christianity (EC). In Doug Pagitt And Arrogance Of Liberal/Progressive Christians you may recall I reminded you Pagitt was the one selected by Leadership Network (LN) to head-up the project of bringing together some of the top young up-and-coming ministers of […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 16, 2010 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Jay Bakker
Apprising Ministries was given the below tweet as a piece of Intel from quasi-universalist Spencer Burke, founder of the aptly named THEOOZE.com, a popular website in the sinfully ecumenical Emerging Church aka Emergent Church—that morphed into Emergence Christianity (EC): I had a lot of fun doing this episode with Brian McLaren: Q1 – The Narrative Question, from his new book on […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 16, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Word Faith
But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves. Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute. In their greed these […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 15, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian", Jay Bakker
And I will keep on doing what I am doing in order to cut the ground from under those who want an opportunity to be considered equal with us in the things they boast about. (2 Corinthians 11:12) The Lord Has His Witness On The Internet This is a brief follow-up to the Apprising Ministries […]
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