Category: Features
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 28, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Features, Rob Bell
For those of us old enough to remember The Firesign Theatre, the non-gospel of the Emergent rebellion against the Bible aka the Emerging Church will remind you of their album “Everything You Know Is Wrong.” And such is the root any cult takes; cast doubt on the Scriptures, and/or offer their unique twist on them, […]
By AM on Nov 27, 2008 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Features, Radio Appearances, Rob Bell
This presentation below of a recent Crosstalk radio program put together by Lane Chaplin features: Host: Ingrid Schlueter Guest: Ken Silva Pastor Ken Silva is with Apprising Ministries. How would you feel if your pastor tried to teach you breathing exercises specific to prayer? What if he told you that your deepest fear is that you […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 26, 2008 in Current Issues, Emergent Church, Features
Apprising Ministries brings you the following from “Christian” pastor Samir Selmanovic, a member of the Coordinating Group for Emergent Village, gives us further indication of the reimagined universalism within the postliberalism of the Emerging Church as he writes at his blog: Is the story of God a story of my own soul, a story of […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 25, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian", Rob Bell, Southern Baptist Convention
All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work. (2 Timothy 3:16-17, NASB) The Christian Must Listen To God First; And After That To People Yes, you read that right; I do believe […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 24, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian", Rob Bell
And what I do I will continue to do, in order to undermine the claim of those who would like to claim that in their boasted mission they work on the same terms as we do. For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. (2 Corinthians 11:12-13, ESV) Diligently […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 24, 2008 in Features, Joel Osteen, Word Faith
In her post Joel Osteen Hits Milwaukee at Slice of Laodicea Ingrid Schlueter tells us: Joel Osteen brought his show to our city last night. The reporter from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel talked to me longer than I expected, getting a handle on why I and others didn’t support America’s smiling preacher and his happy-talk […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 23, 2008 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Features
So does leading theologian in the Emerging Church and influential evangelical teacher Brian McLaren, really think that God—through Muhammad—founded the idolatrous pagan religion of Islam, which denies the Deity of Christ Jesus? Decide for yourself; the following is from McLaren’s book Finding Our Way Again: Christianity, Islam, and Judaism have more in common than many people realize because they […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 22, 2008 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Features, Richard Foster, Spiritual Formation
They are full of superstitions from the East; they practice divination like the Philistines and clasp hands with pagans. (Isaiah 2:6) “But Don’t Go Confusing Me With The Facts; I’ve Already Made Up My Mind!” Apprising Ministries, in the time we have left, will continue alerting the Body of Christ to the dangers of Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) with its […]
By AM on Nov 21, 2008 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Features, Radio Appearances, Rob Bell
In his sermon I will say it again, and again, and again, Sunday November 16, 2008, Emergent Church icon Rob Bell shares a common mantra of those neo-Gnostics involved in the Contemplative/Centering Prayer of Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism. For them it is the mystics in various religious traditions who are the great enlightened ones. Bell says: It’s interesting how […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 20, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian"
DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA! Tony Jones, author of the book The New Christianity Christians and a leading theologian in the Emergent Church is out of the closet now concerning his views that unrepentant practicing homosexuals can become Christians, which Apprising Ministries first pointed out in Tony Jones and the Emergent Church: “Christian” Gay is A-Ok. We took a […]
If you are looking for archives that are easier to navigate, try our Archives page.