By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 24, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
Just as in times past there were false prophets in Israel, there are now false teachers among us. They’ve cunningly introduced destructive heresies. They even deny the Lord who, through His atonement bought them. By doing these things these false teachers will bring swift destruction on themselves! Many are following their shameful ways and they […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 24, 2011 in Current Issues, Devotions, Features, Quotes
O Christless man, you have pleasure, but it is only for a season. Laugh on if you will – your candle will soon be out. Your games, your dance, your social parties, will soon be over. There are no games in hell… Men must be brought down by law work to see their guilt and […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 24, 2011 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren
Evangelicals are quick to praise Charles Spurgeon, who stood tall for the purity of God’s Gospel during the Downgrade Controversy. Unfortuntely, there really doesn’t seem to be any Spurgeon on the horizon today in what’s truly is a New Downgrade No-Controversy With Its Apostles Of Unbelief. Spurgeon reminds you what squishy evangelical leaders have forgotten concerning the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 24, 2011 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features
Here at Apprising Ministries I’m occasionally asked if Oprah Winfrey is a Christian. The short answer is: We have no real reason whatsoever to believe that she is. Also, this Associated Press piece Winfrey meditates with women during Iowa visit from this weekend gives us more indication as well. Sadly, this type of transcendental meditation—at […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 24, 2011 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features
By Apprising Ministries correspondent Christine Pack and Cathy Mathews of Sola Sisters According to the video above, Mark Driscoll has embraced a dangerous false teaching in which Christians are taught what amounts to hand-to-hand combat with demons. This bizarre teaching was once confined to the hyper-charismatic denominations but has now invaded mainstream evangelical Christianity. (Incidentally, […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 23, 2011 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Apprising Ministries has warned in posts e.g. Calvinist Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism? and Disciplines To Deception In Southern Baptist Convention that for years now Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) as taught by Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster along with his spiritual twin and Southern Baptist minister Dallas Willard has been rapidly spreading throughout mainstream evangelicalism under […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 22, 2011 in Current Issues, Features
Of all the major cults extant in the melting pot of religions called American, none is more subtle or dangerous to the unwary soul than The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the official name of Mormonism. This stalwart organization is…active in zealously promoting the “revelations” of “Prophet” Joseph Smith and the indomitable Brigham […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 21, 2011 in Current Issues, Features, T.D. Jakes, Word Faith
Apprising Ministries has been covering how even the heretical Word Faith movement continues heading toward acceptance within the mainstream of evangelicalism. Something called The Elephant Room, put on by Gospel Coalition Council Member and caretaker James MacDonald, is actually starting to contribute to this. The problem with the upcoming ER2 is two-fold as I see it. […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 21, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
Apprising Ministries continues to point out the horrid effects of postmodernism upon apostatizing evangelicalism as spiritual darkness continues to fall. With practicing Mormon Mitt Romney again running for president, it serves to present us with another nauseating example. Sadly, too many in the visible church are now working to try and make the Church of Jesus Christ of […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 20, 2011 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Richard Foster
Then the LORD said to me, “The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I have not sent them or appointed them or spoken to them. They are prophesying to you false visions, divinations, idolatries and the delusions of their own minds.” (Jeremiah 14:14) Evangelical Rip Van Winkles Call A Quaker Mystic For Their Bedtime […]