Category: Current Issues
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 21, 2009 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Rob Bell
The other day Apprising Ministries pointed out in Brian McLaren Of Emerging Church To Celebrate Ramadan that Brian McLaren, unquestionably a leading theologian in the the egregiously ecumenical Emerging Church aka Emergent Church—currently morphing into Emergence Christianity—(EC) will be “will be joining Muslim friends in the fast which begins August 21.” Now in the clip below from the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 19, 2009 in Current Issues, Homosexuality/"Christian"
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune reports: If the members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) were looking for assurances that everything is going to be resolved after the church-wide assembly votes on the question of gay and lesbian clergy, they didn’t get what they expected Tuesday. The task force that drew up a proposal […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 19, 2009 in Current Issues, Rob Bell
At fellow online apologetics and discernment ministry Slice of Laodicea my friend Ingrid Schlueter shares from a press release she received today: A new resource is available to those who want to look more closely at the Christian book they’re reading. “Clear as a Bell” is a new e-book that holds the first chapter of “Jesus Wants […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 19, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Rob Bell
I did not send these prophets, yet they have run with their message; I did not speak to them, yet they have prophesied. But if they had stood in My Council, they would have proclaimed My Words to My people and would have turned them from their evil ways and from their evil deeds. (Jeremiah […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 18, 2009 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Devotions, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Richard Foster, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation
but every man did that which was right in his own eyes. (Judges 17:6) Contemplative Spirituality Has Slithered Right Into The Mainstream Of Evangelicalism Over at the fellow online apologetics and discernment ministry Slice of Laodicea the other day Ingrid Schuleter further highlighted mainstream evangelicalism’s embrace of corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) ala Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster and […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 18, 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 this upcoming Emerging Church C21 conference to your attention. AM also showed you that among alleged “innovative” and “most important voices for the future of […]
By AM on Aug 18, 2009 in Current Issues, Homosexuality/"Christian", Jay Bakker, Radio Appearances
Lately in articles like The Nightmare Beginning For Mainstream Evangelicalism AM has warned that by watching how the highly divisive issue of homosexuality is ripping apart the mainline denominations e.g. the Episcopal Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America mainstream evangelicalism itself is getting another peek at its own impending future. “Gay Affirming” clergy like ELCA “pastor” Nadia Bolz-Weber and “Outlaw pastor” […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 18, 2009 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Lighthouse Trails Research offers us Chapter 11 of the book A “Wonderful” Deception by Warren Smith. It’s a must read if you want to understand things like Brian McLaren Of Emerging Church To Celebrate Ramadan. We are no longer surprised as Smith brings out the following: Sweet expresses his personal gratitude in [his book] Quantum Spirituality to […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 17, 2009 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Well, at least so says Michael Dowd, author of author of Thank God for Evolution. If you weren’t concerned about how far from genuine Christianity the egregiously ecumenical Emerging Church aka Emergent Church—morphing into Emergence Christianity (EC)—has slithered then just give listen to the below. The aptly named TheOoze.TV informs us: In a recent interview with ThinkFwd: host, Spencer […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 17, 2009 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Apprising Ministries asks if you might remember Anne Holmes Redding, who claims to be both a Muslim and Christian simultaneously, and whom we discussed in An Emerging Christian Muslim Priestess For Allah Says, “Jesus Led Me Into Islam.” Well, the Global Family takes another step forward; we just couldn’t make this kind of stuff up as, at his […]
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