By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 18, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian"
There’s very good reason why in posts like Ex-Homosexual Friend Of Apprising Ministries I’ve been warning you here at Apprising Ministries that there’s a very dark and threatening same-sex storm, right now, approaching hurricane force, and which is currently only slightly off the coast of your own local church. Briefly, as I said e.g. in Jay Bakker Reflects The Sad Condition Of The Visible Church, the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 18, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
Apprising Ministries is pleased to point you to this program where my friend Derek Gilbert interviews another person I’m blessed to call a friend: Sarah Leslie of Discernment Ministries, publisher of the excellent Herescope blog, joined us to talk about this movement–its history, its beliefs, and the links between these new apostles, mainstream evangelicals, New […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 17, 2010 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Theology
The following by Dr. Gary Gilley, pastor of Southern View Chapel, is republished at Apprising Ministries with permission: The Unsovereign God If God’s inability to know the future is the core doctrine of open theism, then God’s lack of sovereign power and control over the universe is the foundation of, or better, heart of openism. […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 17, 2010 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Theology
The following by Dr. Gary Gilley, pastor of Southern View Chapel, is republished at Apprising Ministries with permission: The Frustrated God In the mind of the open theist, God not only does not control most events on this planet, He is also blindsided by many of them – not able to foresee the future (as […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 17, 2010 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Theology
The following by Dr. Gary Gilley, pastor of Southern View Chapel, is republished at Apprising Ministries with permission: The God Who Is Pretty Sure The preeminent doctrinal shift required by open theism, the one upon which all the others rest, is the limiting of the omniscience of God. Open theologians hotly deny this, claiming they […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 17, 2010 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Theology
The following by Dr. Gary Gilley, pastor of Southern View Chapel, is republished at Apprising Ministries with permission: Any war is composed of major battles and minor skirmishes. The skirmishes, while often little more than irritants in the big picture, nevertheless cannot be ignored. True casualties are often the result of such conflict and the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 17, 2010 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Theology
Apprising Ministries is a online apologetics and discernment labor in the Lord and part of my commission as pastor-teacher is to help make you aware of trends within the church visible. I wish I had better news but as I survey the horizon I see a tsunami of apostasy on the way; in large part […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 17, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
Apprising Ministries talked about the consequences of Glenn Beck believing the doctrine of the non-Christian cult of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons) in Apprising Ministries To Glenn Beck; he believes in a Jesus who does not exist, and therefore, cannot save anyone. Here now is the “Jesus of Mormonism” as […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 16, 2010 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features
If you think the video below here at Apprising Ministries is a service at a church that’s with the sinfully ecumenical neo-liberal cult of the Emerging Church; you’d be wrong. This video is from the Vimeo page of New Life Fellowship Roman Catholic Church where Peter Scazzero is pastor/spiritual director/priest. You may recall from Contemplative Spirituality Catalyst Peter Scazzero I […]