Category: Features
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 31, 2008 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Features, Richard Foster
I hate those who regard vain idols, But I trust in the LORD. (Psalm 31:6, NASB) These Opened The Mystical Door Of No Return The September 2008 issue of Christianity Astray Today magazine is poised to bring favorable attention to The Cult Guru Richard Foster so here Apprising Ministries reminds you that Emergent Church Swami Brian Mclaren, who […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 30, 2008 in Current Issues, Features, Word Faith
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God; and every spirit that does […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 30, 2008 in Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Emergent Church, Erwin McManus, Features, Joel Osteen, John Hagee, Marcus Borg, Richard Foster, Rick Warren, Rob Bell, Roman Catholicism, Southern Baptist Convention, T.D. Jakes, Theology, Word Faith
Do not quench the Spirit; do not despise prophetic utterances. But examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good. (1 Thessalonians 5:21, NASB) Can You Hear The Voice of The Spirit? Apprising Ministries is pleased to bring you the following godly and prophetic insight from James Montgomery Boice and Philip Graham Ryken. Herein […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 30, 2008 in Current Issues, Emergent Church, Features
What’s being lost in the confusion being sown in the evangelical camp by the Emerging Church is that this movement clearly had a beginning. The discernment work Herescope is exactly right when they tell us: Do not be deceived. The “emerging church” movement did not spontaneously erupt. It was a well-funded and well-organized movement from […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 30, 2008 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Emergent Church, Features, Richard Foster, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation
The September 2006 issue of Christianity Today tells us ordained Southern Baptist minister Dallas Willard “is on a quiet quest to subvert nominal Christianity.” But with the kind of Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM)—often called Spiritual Formation—espoused by Willard along with his co-conspirator the Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster, which always eventually leads its practioners to a […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 30, 2008 in Current Issues, Emergent Church, Features, Rob Bell
“For anyone of the house of Israel or of the immigrants who stay in Israel who separates himself from Me, sets up his idols in his heart, puts right before his face the stumbling block of his iniquity, and then comes to the prophet to inquire of Me for himself, I the LORD will be […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 30, 2008 in Current Issues, Features, Joel Osteen, Word Faith
When one really takes the time to look deeper into the “feel-good” message of smiling Joel Osteen it becomes crystal clear that his doctrine is actually far worse than spiritual junk-food. As you’ll see in this article, originally published August 30, 2005, it is indeed the spiritual poison of the Word Faith Movement which is […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 30, 2008 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Emergent Church, Features, Richard Foster, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation
It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery. (Galatians 5:1, NASB) Foster And Willard: Dynamic Duo With Their Disciplines Of Deception Apprising Ministries warns you that under the guise of “Spiritual Formation” neo-pagan so-called “spiritual disciplines” have now slithered […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 30, 2008 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Features, Richard Foster, Spiritual Formation
The idea here at Apprising Ministries is to begin helping you understand this New Spirituality as well as giving you a proper Christian perspective of it. Firmly rooted as it is in pagan Eastern religions which lurk beneath the New Age movement, this so-called “Christian” mysticism is right now slithering deep into the evangelical camp […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 29, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
We now continue our look at what Christ Jesus did on the Cross. In the previous The Power of the Cross here at Apprising Ministries we focused more on what the sacrifice of Jesus of Nazareth meant in regard to salvation and now we begin to look a bit more at the effect the Cross […]
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