Category: Features
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 24, 2009 in Current Issues, Features
Apprising Ministries has pointed out in recent articles like Evangelicalism Becoming Another Religion Entirely that Satan has been busy saturating throughout the very dry forest of intellectual evangelical churchianity, so easily passing for Christianity these days in alleged postmodern [read: relativistic] America, highly flammable Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism—which first flowered in apostate Roman Catholicism. You need to realize that very rough spiritual waters […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 24, 2009 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features
Apprising Ministries first talked about MEDITATION: Buddhist and Christian “Is There Common Ground?”, which took place November 3 at Bethel University, in Crosstalk: Ingrid Schlueter And Bob DeWaay On Buddhists At Bethel University. In that Crosstalk program Bob DeWaay, pastor of Twin City Fellowship, gives his eyewitness account of this Symposium. In the post Jan Markell […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 24, 2009 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian"
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. (1 Corinthians 6:9-10, NASB) Emerging Church Leader On The Offensive The […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 21, 2009 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
This appears originally at Christian Research Net— A few minutes ago the emerging church group TransFORM retweeted the below: RT @zoecarnate: Is God ‘a recovering practitioner of violence’? http://is.gd/50B4q Samir Selmanovic also retweeted the above, adding his own comment: RT @zoecarnate: Is God ‘a recovering practitioner of violence’? http://is.gd/50B4q. (Samir: “Yes, we are.”) The link takes us to Is […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 21, 2009 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren
I’ve pointed out previously that as a general rule, and a courtesy, we do not publish email without the permission of the sender. However at the same time, all email sent to AM and Christian Research Network is considered the property of Apprising Ministries so we may indeed publish unsolicited email for the purposes of […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 21, 2009 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Devotions, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, while evil men and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. (2 Timothy 3:12) Rough Spiritual Waters Dead Ahead In many of our local fellowships on a given Sunday we could hear a congregation singing songs like […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 19, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian", Rob Bell
Jonathan Bell, who’s brother is Rob Bell, the Elvis of the egregiously ecumenical Emerging Church de-formation of the Christian faith aka Emergent Church—now morphing into Emergence Christianity (EC), wanted us to know about: an interview with my brother (@realrobbell) that sheds some light on some of the projects we’re working on http://bit.ly/9VmN7 (Online source) That link takes us to […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 18, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian", Jay Bakker
And Pharisees came up to Him and tested Him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one’s wife for any cause?” He answered, “Have you not read that He Who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 17, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will recognize them by their fruits.” (Matthew 7:15-16, ESV) Professing To Be Wise, Becoming Fools I’ve been doing what I can here at Apprising Ministries to track the influx of heresy into the mainstream evangelical community, which is […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 16, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian", Jay Bakker
Some Pharisees came to Jesus, testing Him and asking, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason at all?” And He answered and said, “Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning ‘made them male and female’, and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave […]
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