By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 26, 2009 in Current Issues, Word Faith
Ingrid Schlueter has the sordid sad details at Slice of Laodicea: The “evangelist” who made his name kicking a cancer patient in the stomach and boasting of kicking an elderly women in the face with his biker boots left the center ring of the Pentecostal circus after refusing to reconcile with his wife because of […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 26, 2009 in Current Issues
At the ouset we do wish to ask your forgiveness for my not feeling up to being able to personally answer everyone who has written Apprising Ministries lately. Please know that Issues relating to health remain a concern for me and they are still slowing me considerably. Thankfully, at the same time, there does seem […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 25, 2009 in Current Issues
Apprising Ministries points you to this video clip where Bill Gaither promotes the upcoming Family Fest in the Smokies: You are invited to join Bill & Gloria Gaither along with a great group of their friends for Family Fest in the Smokies. The event, which will take place May 22-24, 2009 at the Gatlinburg Convention […]
By AM on Mar 25, 2009 in Current Issues
By John Lanagan My Word Like Fire Yet I have sent you all My servants the prophets, again and again, saying, “Oh, do not do this abominable thing which I hate.” (Jeremiah 44:4) Concern about The Shack, the novel by Paul Young, has skyrocketed since revelation of the author’s denial of the substitutionary Atonement of […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 25, 2009 in Current Issues, Word Faith
While Emergence Christianity tries to convince us that everything goes in the Christian Church, all the while attempting to swallow up the visible church, ol’ friend Bud Press of Christian Research Service has this timely warning as concerning: the hyper-Charismatic movement is growing, and has spent years trying to convince Christians that its “apostles,” prophets, teachers, evangelists, and revivalists are legitimate and a […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 25, 2009 in Current Issues, Homosexuality/"Christian"
This following report comes to us from Christian Post: Members of a committee in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) will gather this week to consider proposed changes, including the removal of a negative reference to homosexual behavior, to a historic document. The General Assembly Special Committee on Correcting Translation Problems of the Heidelberg Catechism is scheduled […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 23, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Features, Rob Bell
DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA In posts such as Phyllis Tickle And The Emerging Church: It’s Not If Sola Scriptura Ends But When and Emergence Pastor Rob Bell To Have Friend Peter Rollins In Conference I’ve been doing my part here at Apprising Ministriesto draw attention to this antichrist Emergence rebellion against sola Scriptura ala teachers of […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 23, 2009 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian"
From the Apprising Ministries outreach Christian Research Net: This is not at all intended to be harmful personally toward the one maintaining the blog The Sweet Bi and Bi, who happens to be a self-proclaimed “child of G-d” practicing a bisexual lifestyle, which includes homosexuality. Rather, this is highly illustrative of the negative, and eternally harmful, effects that Emergence Christianity is now bringing upon […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 23, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Devotions, Features
He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it. (Titus 1:9, ESV) What’s More Important To You; Your Fellow Man, Or Your Master? A point I wish to address here at the outset is the command that the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 22, 2009 in Current Issues, Features
The following is a book review of The Shack by Dr. Gary Gilley from his September 2008 edition of Think On These Things, which is a ministry of Southern View Chapel where Gilley is pastor, and is reprinted here at Apprising Ministries by permission: The Shack by William P. Young One of the most popular and controversial Christian […]