By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 29, 2008 in AM Missives, Features, Theology
There are so many who contact us today who are not able to find a good church to attend. And as you can see from this short Apprising Ministries piece Good Churches Hard to Find World-Wide the problem is hardly in this country alone. Bob DeWaay, pastor Twin City Fellowship of Saint Louis Park, MN has some great resources which will at […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 27, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
Previously in “Biola University Now Drifting from Evangelical Protestant Roots?” (links below) Apprising Ministries brought to your attention a letter from a student at Biola University published at From the Lighthouse… blog which informs us: Biola’s entire chapel has been reformatted to become a totally postmodern way of doing things. Any time the Bible is pulled out it is […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 26, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Theology
In an email published with permission a reader of Apprising Ministries writes in to ask: Are you familiar with the New Perspective on Paul? In Richard Foster and Contemplative Mysticism: A Powerful Ecumenical Bond you referenced the website Bible Study Notes which had an article under the “Categories” section titled Pauline Gospel. When reading articles on a new site, it […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 23, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Rob Bell
As you can see in the Apprising Ministries article Rob Bell On The Emerging Issue of Homosexuality: Mum’s the Word pastor Rob Bell, an icon in the postliberal cult of the Emergent Church, tells practicing homosexuals that “God loves you just as you are. Period.” Well, over at Slice of Laodicea Ingrid Schlueter points out that apparently […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 23, 2008 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features
How long will this continue in the hearts of these lying prophets, who prophesy the delusions of their own minds? (Jeremiah 23:26) Forward Back Into The Ancient-Future Of A Reimagined Christianity Already Condemned Ok, so here’s the deal via a little reductio ad absurdum, which may actually be synonymous with postevangelcalism; but that’s for another […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 22, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Richard Foster
Then the LORD said to me, “The prophets are prophesying falsehood in My name I have neither sent them nor commanded them nor spoken to them; they are prophesying to you a false vision, divination, futility and the deception of their own minds. (Jeremiah 14:14, NASB) Richard Foster Is Not An Evangelical Christian He Is A […]
By AM on Oct 21, 2008 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features
Lane Chaplin put together the below You Tube clip with Ken Silva of Apprising Ministries joining Ingrid Schlueter on her Crosstalk radio program to address an important aspect the current drift away from Sola Scriptura in contemporary evangelicalism. In Christianity Today Promoting the Cult of Richard Foster a few of weeks back we told you about a feature interview with Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 20, 2008 in Current Issues, Features
For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. (Galatians 5:1, ESV) Apostate Roman Catholic Mystical Spiritual Formation Has No Place In The Body Of Christ My friend and brother in arms along this often ugly and neglected Internet Front of the Truth War […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 10, 2008 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features
In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping. (2 Peter 2:3) Earth To Protestant Evangelicalism; Um, Have You Lost Your Mind!? While we don’t always agree with everything espoused the great preachers of old […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 12, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
“Why do you call Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say? Everyone who comes to Me and hears My words and acts on them, I will show you whom he is like: he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid a foundation on the rock; and when a flood […]