Category: Current Issues
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 16, 2009 in Current Issues
Recently in the Apprising Ministries post E-Book With Analysis Of Jesus Wants To Save Christians By Rob Bell I introduced you to my friend Chris Jensen, who has an online apologetics website called The Red Pen. There I said that having read through this excellent e-book by Jensen, who happens to also be an English teacher, I […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 15, 2009 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
In articles such as Christianity 21: Emerging Voices Of A Pseudo-Christian Faith and Tony Jones And Christianity 21: The Future Of Apostate Christianity, a while back, Apprising Ministries first brought to your attention this Emerging Church C21 conference coming up in October. You may know that C 21 is being put on by JoPa Prodictions, […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 15, 2009 in Current Issues, Features
The subtitle of this excellent article by pastor Bob DeWaay referenced below is: Defining the Believer’s Biblical Call to Judge. Those who wish to make a stand for proper Biblical Christianity will often be quoted verse 1 from Matthew 7 – Do not judge lest you be judged. However, as you’ll see in this important teaching from […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 14, 2009 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Apprising Ministries presents the following to show you where the evangelical community within the visible church will be/is heading now that its largely rejected the all-sufficiency and final authority of the Bible i.e. Sola Scriptura to follow its lust for Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism masquerading as Spiritual Formation as taught by Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster. In the grand […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 14, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Apprising Ministries has long been maintaining that Mainstream Evangelicalism Is Now On The Rapid Slide To Apostasy because of its ongoing embrace of the egregiously ecumenical Emerging Church aka Emergent Church—morphing into Emergence Christianity—(EC), as I recently pointed out in Did Nadia Bolz-Weber Just Call Jesus “A Schmuck”? Now along this line in Jurgen Moltmann Conversation we told you of […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 14, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Joel Osteen, Steven Furtick, Word Faith
In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. (2 Peter 2:3) Lust For Numbers Makes Strange Spiritual Bedfellows A while back Apprising Ministries brought out that sadly today there are so many in the apostatizing evangelical community who are burying their heads within the spiritual sand of whatever offshoot—rooted in the semi-pelagian Church Growth Movement—it is that highjacked their particular brand […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 13, 2009 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. (2 Timothy 4:4) But You’re Worshiping Yourself Along the lines of the Apprising Ministries post The Emergence Of A New God, here we hear a bit more on the mystic mush god with a man-shaped hole in its heart preached by the egregiously ecumenical […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 12, 2009 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Quotes
You can see these people in the cults and the occult if you have any degree of discernment at all because they are outside the church. But how do you see the Presbyterian, Baptist, Methodist, Lutheran, Episcopalian professor of theology? How do you get him in a place where you can find out his theology […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 11, 2009 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church
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, ESV) Bed-Time Fables With Jurgen This is just a quick follow […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 10, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Jesus said to them, “Is this not the reason you are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God? For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven. And as for the dead being raised, have you not read […]
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