By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 5, 2011 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Richard Foster, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation
In earlier Apprising Ministries articles like and Christian Soldiers Standing Up For Jesus? and the semi-satirical Recipe For Spiritual Disaster I’ve been trying to bring to your attention how a Rodney King theology of, “Can’t we all just get along” is serving to cripple the witness of the church visible. A major factor contributing to this is […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 4, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Southern Baptist Convention
Apprising Ministries told you in SBC Lifeway Youth Camp Pastor Sam Nuckolls Arrested For Video Peeping that the traveling evangelist had been arrested on charges of video peeping. It’s alleged that while staying as a guest in their home Sam Nuckolls used a pen with a hidden camera in it in order to record the wife in the shower. As I also pointed […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 4, 2011 in Current Issues, Devotions, Features
For my strength is made perfect in weakness. (2 Corinthians 12:9) A primary qualification for serving God with any amount of success, and for doing God’s work well and triumphantly, is a sense of our own weakness. When God’s warrior marches forth to battle, strong in his own might, when he boasts, “I know that […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 4, 2011 in Current Issues, Features, Rob Bell
The following by Dr. Gary Gilley, pastor of Southern View Chapel, is republished at Apprising Ministries with permission: In this volume Beasley concurs with the criticism heaped on Rob Bell and his heretical book Love Wins. But he is justly confused as to why others, particularly C.S. Lewis who taught essentially many of Bell’s errors, […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 3, 2011 in Current Issues, Features
HT: Slaughter of the Sheep See also: GOSPEL COALITION CONTRIBUTOR MIKE COSPER DEFENDS RETREAT WITH ROMAN CATHOLICS TIM KELLER AND CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY MARK DRISCOLL AND NEO-REFORMED NEW CALVINIST CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 2, 2011 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features
Yesterday in the Apprising Ministries piece Thomas Merton And The Gospel Coalition Blog I pointed you to The iPhone as Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Gospel Coalition contributor Mike Cosper, “pastor of worship & arts” at Sojourn Community Church. A major focus of AM is tracking the infection of Counter Reformation spirituality and Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) ala gurus Dallas […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 1, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
Apprising Ministries continues documenting the spread of Counter Reformation spirituality and Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) ala gurus Dallas Willard and his spiritual twin Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster spreading within largely pretending to be Protestant evangelicalism. By all accounts apostate Roman Catholic mystic monk Thomas Merton (1915-1968) is a superstar of CSM, particularly the practice and teaching of its crown jewel, […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 1, 2011 in Current Issues, Features
Demonstrating the proper way for the congregation to address him from now on, Prophet Führer Craig “Perry” Furtick of Spring Vision Elevator Church reveals how God told him he should be saluted. See also: STEVEN FURTICK, JAMES MACDONALD, AND JOEL OSTEEN GOSPEL COALITION COUNCIL MEMBER JAMES MACDONALD LOVES PERRY NOBLE ERIC DYKSTRA AND THE CROSSING CHURCH
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 31, 2011 in Current Issues, Devotions, Features
Renew a right spirit within me. (Psalm 51:10) A backslider, if there be a spark of life left in him will groan after restoration. In this renewal the same exercise of grace is required as at our conversion. We needed repentance then; we certainly need it now. We wanted faith that we might come to […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 30, 2011 in Current Issues, Features, Southern Baptist Convention
UPDATE: LIFEWAY STATEMENT REGARDING PEEPING PASTOR SAM NUCKOLLS Spiritual darkness continues to grow and 1 Peter 4:17 judgments are being sent by Jesus to rain upon the visible Christian church. As apostasy increases Apprising Ministries functions with other soldiers against error in the mission field of online apologetics and discernment along the Internet Front of this […]