By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 14, 2012 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
discerning of spirits(v.10)—Satan is the great deceiver (John 8:44) and his demons counterfeit God’s message and work. Christians with the gift of discernment have the God-given ability to recognize lying spirits and to identify deceptive and erroneous doctrine (see Acts 17:11; 1 John 4:1). Paul illustrated the use of this gift in Acts 16:16-18, as […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 14, 2012 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
See also: UPDATE: STEVEN FURTICK, MATT CHANDLER & A “PROGRAMMING CHANGE” STILL CURIOUS, BUT BETTER, DECISIONS AND MATT CHANDLER MARK DRISCOLL, ACTS 29 NETWORK, AND RICK WARREN
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 14, 2012 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Devotions, Features
Today there is growing talk about apostasy, which gives an appearance of having only recently being ignited within the visible church of our Lord. For many, it seems, this falling away from Biblical authority has suddenly exploded onto the scene as if by a spiritual match tossed onto the gasoline of Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM), with […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 14, 2012 in Current Issues, Features
This just in from Internet News headquarters, where our motto is: If it’s news; it’s news to us. Dateline Anywhere USA; maybe even Your Town: This just in…the world’s gone mad. Ok, that’s not so new; but did you know that we have a special guest in studio with us today for our IN office […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 14, 2012 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
When I first entered upon the work of the ministry among you, I was exceedingly ignorant of the vast importance of church discipline. I thought that my great and almost only work was to pray and preach. I saw your souls to be so precious, and the time so short, that I devoted all my […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 13, 2012 in Current Issues, Features
By Christian Research Network correspondent Rob Willmann of Shepherd’s Heart Bible Study This is a repost of an original article on Shepherd’s Heart Bible Study With all of the bad fruit finally coming from a rotten tree of mistranslation for the sake of greater converts, it’s no wonder that the Pakistan Bible Society is severing it’s partnership […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 12, 2012 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren
Apprising Ministries continues monitoring the aftermath of the Elephant Room 2 for the Christian Research Network. I’ve said before that the silent shockwaves sent out when ER2 detonated have likely caused more damage than we have yet to see. There will probably be more cracks revealed as evangelephants, a term I first heard used by […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 12, 2012 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Southern Baptist Convention, Word Faith
See also: BETH MOORE AND HER VISION OF A ROMAN CATHOLIC DENOMINATION T.D. JAKES PROSPERITY GOSPEL; SOW A SEED, GOD WILL BLESS YOU THE CHURCH OF ROME IS AN IDOLATROUS CHURCH; THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A REAL MAN OF GOD AND A COMPROMISED PEOPLE-PLEASER
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 12, 2012 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
HT: Wretched See also: JOHN PIPER RECOMMENDS BOOK BY EMERGING CONTEMPLATIVE LAUREN WINNER RICHARD FOSTER’S RENOVARE PROMOTING EMERGING HERETIC TONY JONES THE NEW CHRISTIANS WITH CHRISTIANITY WORTH BELIEVING—NO SOLA SCRIPTURA: YES, WOMEN PASTORS AND QUEER CHRISTIANS
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 12, 2012 in Current Issues, Features
By Apprising Ministries special correspondent Rob Willmann of Shepherd’s Heart Bible Study This is a repost of an original article on Shepherd’s Heart Bible Study Recently I began blogging about the issues with Wycliffe’s translation methodology and what it means for the state of missions today in Arabic parts of the world. I’m gravely concerned […]