Category: Emergent Church
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 5, 2010 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Apprising Ministries has told you that gay affirming “pastor” Jay Bakker heads up a a rather rapscallion bunch spiritually who call themselves Outlaw Preachers, which is a subset of the neo-liberal cult of the Emergent Church de-formation of the Christian faith. And Bakker wanted to make sure we knew about: via @huffingtonpost: Why Do Evangelicals Dislike Me So Much? http://huff.to/9ll5ix (Online source) Following […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 5, 2010 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Apprising Ministries introduced you to BrianMerritt, “Senior Minister”of Palisades Community Church in Why Evangelicalism Is Failing A New Generation, As Is The Emerging Church and Fruit Of The New Progressive Theology Advanced By The Emerging Church. The latter post contains his reaction to my deconstructing a HuffPost written by his PCUSA pastrix wife Carol Howard Merritt in the former. The Merritts […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 5, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
“You will know them by their fruits.” (Matthew 7:16, NASB) Rotten Progressive Christianity As a pastor-teacher, I offer this here at Apprising Ministries as a real good look at the fruit being produced by the updated Progressive Christianity being spread by the neo-liberal cult of the Emerging Church with its de-formation of the Christian faith called Emergence Christianity. This is the new […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 4, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
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) Be Careful Who You Listen To Because You Just Might Come To […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 3, 2010 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Devotions, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Apprising Ministries draws your attention to Is the meaning of Easter being lost? by Kate Shellnutt of the Houston Chronicle where she reminds us of a couple of sad facts. Unfortunately however, Shellnutt is right when she says: Just as Christmas for many has become less about the miracle of the virgin birth, Easter may be losing […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 2, 2010 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Apprising Ministries points you to a couple of pieces concerning heretical Emerging Church guru Brian McLaren and his latest book A New Kind of Christianity (ANKoC). Previously I’ve told you that in ANKoC McLaren, through “10 questions that are transforming the faith,” has begun laying out the newer version of Progressive Christianity which the Emergent Church is calling Emergence Christianity. First there’s the curious headline for a […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 30, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
…they are full of things from the East and of fortune-tellers like the Philistines, and they strike hands with the children of foreigners. (Isaiah 2:6, ESV) Spreading The New EC Ideology Apprising Ministries has been telling you in recent posts such as The Emerging Church, Philip Clayton, And New Progressive Theology and Brian McLaren And His New Emerging Progressive […]
By AM on Mar 29, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Radio Appearances
Pastor Ken Siva, president of the online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries, and General Editor of Christian Research Net along with Chris Rosebrough, host of Fighting for the Faith on Pirate Christian Radio, joined Ingrid Schlueter of her Crosstalk Radio show today to discuss A Covenant For Civility. In Jim Wallis And Sojourners Whine […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 29, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Apprising Ministries points you to the following report from Lighthouse Trails Research, which shows a continuing spread of the spiritual cancer of the Emerging Church within apostatizing evangelicalism: This coming June, Calvary Chapel Albuquerque (a veteran Calvary Chapel church pastored by Skip Heitzig) will host the National Worship Leader Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico and will feature New Age sympathizer and […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 29, 2010 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Apprising Ministries showed you in Doug Pagitt, John Piper, And Karma Kick-Back that universalist Emerging Church pastor Doug Pagitt, part of the Emergent trinity along with his progressive theologian in residence Tony Jones and EC guru Brian McLaren, believes that John Piper’s recent prognostication of the demise of the Emergent Church “has been greatly exaggerated.” [1] This is one of those rare […]
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