By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 21, 2012 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. (Philippians 2:5-7) Don’t Be Fooled As Richard Foster […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 21, 2012 in Current Issues, Features
The following by Dr. Gary Gilley, pastor of Southern View Chapel, is republished at Apprising Ministries with permission: The Prodigal God has received much notice and praise in the evangelical community. The editors of World Magazine even proclaimed it their “Book of the Year.” The accolades are understandable given Timothy Keller’s helpful apologetic approach (see his Reason for God), […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 20, 2012 in Current Issues, Features, Southern Baptist Convention
Apprising Ministries first told you about popular Seeker Driven Southern Baptist pastor Ed Young, Jr., son of two-time former SBC president Dr. Ed Young, back in a piece called But Southern Baptists Say Ok To T.D. Jakes. There you saw that, long before James MacDonald and his ecumenical Elephant Room, Ed Young, Jr. had already given […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 19, 2012 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Richard Foster
By Pastor Larry DeBruyn of Guarding His Flock Ministries, republished here with permission: Contemplative Prayer and the Lord’s Prayer “For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful. What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also.” 1 Corinthians 14:14-15a, KJV Between contemplative spirituality […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 18, 2012 in Current Issues, Features, Word Faith
Apprising Ministries has been telling you that the Word Faith (WF) movement is moving closer and closer to acceptance within mainstream evangelicalism. For example, Christian Research Network associate editor Erin Benziger made us aware of this peculiarity Mark Driscoll Promoting Word Faith Teacher Brian Houston? I’ll now bring to your attention an up and coming Word Faith personality by […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 18, 2012 in Current Issues, Features
By Christian Research Network Associate Editor Erin Benziger of Do Not Be Surprised… This is a repost of an original article on Do Not Be Surprised… Nestled in the suburbs of Chicago rests one of America’s most well-known megachurches. Having been at the forefront of the seeker-friendly movement, Willow Creek and its senior pastor, Bill […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 17, 2012 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian"
Apprising Ministries has been warning here that a very dark and deviant same sex storm is reaching hurricane force and is only slightly off the coast of the mainstream evangelical community. That’s why I wrote Miley Cyrus And Gay Marriage; while I don’t consider her a Christian, her views do represent young evangelicals. It’s likely not […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 17, 2012 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
By Dr. Orrel Steincamp, republished with permission Have you ever heard of “panentheism”? It sounds a lot like pantheism but there are those two additional letters “en” inserted after “pan.” The word broken into its constitute parts is pan=all, en= in, and theos= God. Panentheism is the belief the universe is contained within God and […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 17, 2012 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
See also: BEWARE OF EMERGING SPIRITUALITY AND EMERGENCE THEORY THE EMERGING CHURCH AND THE NEW PROGRESSIVE THEOLOGY ON CHRIST THE EMERGING CHURCH AND THE NEW PROGRESSIVE THEOLOGY ON OTHER RELIGIONS
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 16, 2012 in Current Issues, Features
Apprising Ministries continues showing you that Southern Baptists Are Assisting The Roman Catholic Church To Infiltrate Evangelicalism. In that piece I reminded you that the late Chuck Colson was most prominent among them. The fact is, things are not well in the SBC, which is supposedly a Protestant denomination. Today was the memorial for Chuck Colson […]