By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 11, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian"
You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. (James 4:4) There Can Be No Unity With Such As These Apprising Ministries has been attempting to alert you, e.g. in pieces like Doug […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 10, 2011 in Current Issues, Features
The terrorist attack against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, a Christian minister opened a memorial service with this invocation: “We pray in the name of our God-the God of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam…” Many people-even many Christians in the United States-believe that Christians and Muslims worship the same God. I will demonstrate in […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 9, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
People will be lovers of self. (2 Timothy 3:2) Pleasing Themselves Rather Than God Apprising Ministries has been warning about, and documenting, the sad slide of largely pretending to be Protestant evangelicalism into becoming what I’ve referred to as The Ecumenical Church Of Deceit (ECoD); and much of the current sorry state of the church visible […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 9, 2011 in Current Issues, Devotions, Features
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church. (Colossians 1:24) In this generation the common man of the day has an extremely low view of the church. Men know little […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 8, 2011 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features
See also: MAINSTREAM EVANGELICALISM EMBRACING CONTEMPLATIVE MYSTICISM IN TOUCH MAGAZINE OF CHARLES STANLEY PROMOTING CONTEMPLATIVE NEW MONASTICISM FOCUS ON THE FAMILY DISRESPECTS LIGHTHOUSE TRAILS TO PROMOTE CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY/MYSTICISM
By AM on Jul 8, 2011 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Definitions, Features, Roman Catholicism
Pro-tho-lic (prŏ’-thŏl-ĭc) n. [GK protos (Strongs G4253), foremost, first, Middle English < Latin prō (prep) in favor of, for; Greek pró, Sanskrit pra; GK holos (Strongs G3650), whole, (holic: a combining form extracted from alcoholic, a person who has an addiction to or obsession with some object or activity.) Lit. Proto-holic] 1. A professing Protestant who […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 8, 2011 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Rob Bell
By Larry Dixon, professor of theology at Columbia International University Seminary and School of Missions and author of “Farewell, Rob Bell”: A Biblical Response to Love Wins “Hell is Manhattan at rush hour!“, stated the occasional theologian Woody Allen. No doubt his viewpoint has changed over the last year; perhaps he would now agree with […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 7, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
For at least the past six years now online apologetics and discernment ministries like Lighthouse Trails Research, as well as here at Apprising Ministries, have warning about the sinfully ecumenical [i.e. Reformation repudiating] Emergent Church aka the Emerging Church. Sadly, it’s now grown into a neo-liberal cult operating within evangelicalism infecting it with their new […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 7, 2011 in Current Issues, Features
Universalists may be divided, broadly, into two classes: those who teach the ultimate salvation of every member of Adam’s race, and those who affirm the ultimate salvation of all creatures, including the Devil, the fallen angels, and the demons. The class of passages to which both appeal are verses where the words “all,” “all men,” […]