By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 23, 2008 in Current Issues
One of the young men the Lord has put in my life to help mentor had the issue of Paul Tripp’s video publicizing an upcoming Desiring God conference from The ministry of John Piper brought to his attention today. So he wrote to me wondering if I was aware of this sad issue. I pointed out that CRN covered […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 22, 2008 in Current Issues
Appealing To Apostate Roman Catholic Monks For Protestant “Spiritual Formation” Due to the importance of the issues concerning the influx into evangelicalism of corrupt Contemplative/Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) and its so-called “Christian” meditation of Contemplative/Centering Prayer(CCP)—which flowered in the antibiblical monastic traditions of apostate Roman Catholicism, i.e. no longer Christian—Apprising Ministries is doing all we can to bring […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 21, 2008 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Spiritual Formation
At this point as we are Meditating On Contemplative/Centering Prayer I am going to shift gears a bit and begin to take a closer look at why it is we’re told we must practice the so-called “Christian” meditation of Contemplative/Centering Prayer (CCP)—that actually flowered in the antibiblical monastic traditions of apostate Roman Catholicism and which is central to the theology of […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 21, 2008 in Current Issues
The Church of Jesus Christ certainly seems to have lost its way in this increasingly pagan nation as it follows e.g. dreamers rooted in the semi-pelgian Church Growth Movement like Rick Warren and Rob Bell. Left here by our Lord to be the salt and light of the world, yet the evangelical community continues to grow […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 20, 2008 in Current Issues
It is with great pleasure that Apprising Ministries brings to your attention that a new edition of an old favorite The Sacred Sandwich is now online and in a magazine/blog-style format. We’re also glad to pass on The League of Tyndale reports that The Sandwich offers RSS feed and emails to keep you right up-to-date on the latest small-town news […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 19, 2008 in Current Issues
…a double-minded man [is] unstable in all he does. (James 1:8) Decended From The Reformers But Praising The Doctrine of Counter-Reformers With recent articles like Georgia Baptist Convention (SBC) Now Promoting the Cult of Richard Foster and Christianity Today Promoting the Roman Catholic Mystic Catherine of Siena at Apprising Ministries as well as Crosstalk: Ken Silva on “Evangelicals Embrace Mystics” we’re […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 19, 2008 in Current Issues
Opening The Door For CSM In The “Protestant” SBC Apprising Ministries is one of the few labors in the Lord which is addressing the current drift away from Sola Scriptura in contemporary evangelicalism in favor of the highly subjective and spiritually corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) with its Contemplative/Centering Prayer (CCP), all of which flowered in the antibiblical monastic traditions of apostate […]
By AM on Sep 18, 2008 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues
Ken Silva of Apprising Ministries joins Ingrid Schlueter on her Crosstalk radio program to address an important aspect the current drift away from Sola Scriptura in contemporary evangelicalism. In Christianity Today Promoting the Cult of Richard Foster a couple of weeks back we told you about a feature interview with Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster in this month’s edition of Christianity Today […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 18, 2008 in Current Issues
Apprising Ministries finds it interesting to note at 6:05 into the above video clip well known evangelical Christian apologist Ravi Zacharias emphatically states: “One of the greatest saints of recent memory was Henri Nouwen.” But the question then becomes: Do “great saints” really teach universalism as did this apostate Roman Catholic Priest? Nouwen wrote: Today I personally believe that Jesus came […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 17, 2008 in Current Issues
Are these two men below actually describing the same God? Apprising Ministries would have to believe you will see it becomes quite obvious that they are not. The following is from a 1991 debate Islam And Christianity on The John Ankerberg Show. The first quote comes from a Muslim by the name of Dr. Jamal […]