By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 26, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ. (Jude 4) Let’s Be Praying Nadia Bolz-Weber Will Repent Apprising Ministries has told you before that the sinfully ecumenical Emerging Church, […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 25, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Rob Bell
The online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries has as one of its mandates in the Lord analyzing current trends in the visible church, apprising you as to what they are, and how it is you can deal with them. I pointed out previously that one terrible trend we’ve watched very carefully since 2005 was the rise of the Emerging […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 25, 2010 in Current Issues, Features, Quotes
I’m not for a minute advocating a cheap grace or an easy-believeism. But the yoke still is easy, right? And the burden still is light, is it not? The danger–and it’s a danger I’ve fallen foul of in my own preaching–is that in all our efforts to be prophetic, radical, and missional, we end up […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 25, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
The word of the Lord came to me: “Son of man, take a stick and write on it, ‘For Judah, and the people of Israel associated with him’; then take another stick and write on it, ‘For Joseph (the stick of Ephraim) and all the house of Israel associated with him.’ And join them one to […]
By AM on Aug 24, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Word Faith
by Bud Press, Director Christian Research Service The August 2, 2010 edition of the NATIONAL ENQUIRER included two photos of what appears to be Benny Hinn and Paula White holding hands while walking together in Rome, Italy ( http://tinyurl.com/27ufyhz , pp. 26-27). As a result, Paula White issued a written statement on her website, but it was removed a few […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 24, 2010 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Apprising Ministries is an online apologetics and discernment work specializing in analyzing current trends in the visible church apprising you as to what they are and how you can deal with them. One trend we’ve watched very carefully since 2005 was the rise of the Emerging Church; now a full-blown neo-liberal cult operating within mainstream evangelicalism, which […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 23, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
Apprising Ministries told you recently about the upcoming Divine Destiny event by popular conservative talk show host Glenn Beck in Apprising Ministries To Glenn Beck. (Online source) It says a lot about the state of the visible church when those who, as far as I know, make no claim to be Christian exercize more discernment than those who do. […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 23, 2010 in Current Issues, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian"
Apprising Ministries has, e.g. in Anne Rice, You Can’t Quit Christianity Unless You’re A Christian and Anne Rice And Homosexuality, been covering the sad saga of Anne Rice allegedly “quitting Christianity” supposedly “in the name of Christ.” I also said in Anne Rice In Apostasy that if she would drop this, then I wouldn’t have to continue to expose her in her apostasy; but […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 22, 2010 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Radio Appearances, Spiritual Formation
From David Wheaton at his The Christian Worldview blog: (Online source) You can download and listen to the program right here. See also: EVANGELICALISM USING ITS YOUNG AS SPIRITUAL GUINEA PIGS CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY OF RICHARD FOSTER ROOTED IN THE EASTERN DESERT AND THOMAS MERTON DALLAS WILLARD ENCOURAGES CONTEMPLATIVE/CENTERING PRAYER CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY/MYSTICISM (CSM) OF SPIRITUAL FORMATION […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 21, 2010 in Current Issues, Features
North Heights Lutheran Church (NHLC) of Arden Hills and Roseville, MN was originally with the ELCA but: The charismatic church, which has sites in Arden Hills and Roseville, [changed] its affiliation to the Alliance of Renewal Churches, a Minnesota-based association of churches that emphasize spirit-filled worship. (Online source) If, like me, you sense something’s off here and […]