By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 22, 2008 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Features, Richard Foster, Spiritual Formation
They are full of superstitions from the East; they practice divination like the Philistines and clasp hands with pagans. (Isaiah 2:6) “But Don’t Go Confusing Me With The Facts; I’ve Already Made Up My Mind!” Apprising Ministries, in the time we have left, will continue alerting the Body of Christ to the dangers of Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) with its […]
By AM on Nov 21, 2008 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Features, Radio Appearances, Rob Bell
In his sermon I will say it again, and again, and again, Sunday November 16, 2008, Emergent Church icon Rob Bell shares a common mantra of those neo-Gnostics involved in the Contemplative/Centering Prayer of Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism. For them it is the mystics in various religious traditions who are the great enlightened ones. Bell says: It’s interesting how […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 21, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Homosexuality/"Christian"
To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their minds and their consciences are defiled. They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work. (Titus 1:15-16, ESV) When Our Creator God Spoke […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 20, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian"
DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA! Tony Jones, author of the book The New Christianity Christians and a leading theologian in the Emergent Church is out of the closet now concerning his views that unrepentant practicing homosexuals can become Christians, which Apprising Ministries first pointed out in Tony Jones and the Emergent Church: “Christian” Gay is A-Ok. We took a […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 19, 2008 in Current Issues
In an essay aptly titled A Human Approach to World Peace Dalai Lama, supposedly the current manifestation “of the Bodhisattva (Buddha) of Compassion, who chose to reincarnate to serve the people” expresses a dream which, alas, can never be: We practitioners of different faiths can work together for world peace when we view different religions as essentially instruments to […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 19, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Southern Baptist Convention
It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery. (Galatians 5:1, NASB) How Would You Know If You Were Being Taught False Doctrine? At the Lifeway: Biblical Solutions for Life website of the Southern Baptist Convention we read: Together again […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 19, 2008 in Current Issues, Features, Southern Baptist Convention
On its present course of apostasy within its “leadership” (can you even have leadership with autonomy as an accountability system?) the Southern Baptist Convention will find out the hard way that the Idol of Autonomy they bow before is an unfaithful harlot. From the Baptist General Conference of Missouri: In June representatives from Kansas City area Baptist […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 18, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Spiritual Formation
Apprising Ministries draws to your attention a story in The Leaf Chronicle of Clarksville, TN; yes, that Clarksville, concerning the way more and more who profess Christianity are currently becoming involved with the corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) at the heart of spurious Spiritual Formation snake-oil sold by Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster. Given a veneer of scholasticism by Foster’s spiritual twin Dallas Willard, at its […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 18, 2008 in Current Issues
The following is actually right in line with a couple of recent Apprising Ministries articles Emerging Eastern-Style Meditation for Global Peace…and Worse… along with Phyllis Tickle: Tickling Itching Emergent Ears. Breitbart.com is reporting: A website launched Friday with the backing of technology industry and Hollywood elite urges people worldwide to help craft a framework for harmony […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 18, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Features
Below you’ll see religious writer Phyllis Tickle hawking her latest book The Great Emergence (TGE), which is published by Baker Books. Going onto their website as of this writing it’s pretty hard to miss Tickle’s book. Well, there’s really a little more to the story. For you see, TGE is actually from Baker’s Emersion: Emergent Village resources […]