By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 9, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Features, Rob Bell, Southern Baptist Convention
Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Indeed, has God said, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden’?” (Genesis 3:1) I Don’t Know What It Means, I Just Know You’re Wrong! But in his book […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 7, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Southern Baptist Convention
I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction. For the time will come when they will […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 23, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Word Faith
A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city, And contentions are like the bars of a citadel. (Proverbs 18:19, NASB) This Was Never Any Attack On Ray Comfort Or His WOTM The Lord is my witness that I did not want it to come to this. However, in regard to what […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 15, 2008 in Current Issues, Features
Apparently Gene Robinson’s “god” is the same capricious one that Emerging Church “pastor” Jay Bakker is so fond of chatting with, e.g. Jay Bakker Challenges Mega-Church Pastors On Homophobia. Practicing sodomite “Christian” Gene Robinson, overseer of Episcopal Churches in New Hampshire where I happen to live, says of his ordination as a practicing homosexual: I’m deeply […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 3, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
By now you may have read Ray Comfort to Speak with Word of Faith Heretics, Again by Ingrid Schlueter, which was also carried by Apprising Ministries. It’s also well known that Ray Comfort is very respected within the evangelical community. Personally I have not really followed Comfort and Way of the Master all that closely, […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 14, 2008 in Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren, Southern Baptist Convention
In the Foreword of William Webster’s very helpful 1996 book The Matthew 16 Controversy Dr. Tom Nettles, Professor of Historical Theology at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, writes: Recent years have seen an increase in serious attempts at achieving some reapprochement between Roman Catholics and Protestants…the current rapid breakdown in public morality has served as a […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 30, 2008 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Emergent Church, Features, Richard Foster, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation
Due to the importance of the issues concerning the influx into apostatizing evangelicalism of corrupt Contemplative/Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) and its so-called “Christian” meditation of Contemplative/Centering Prayer (CCP)—which flowered in the antibiblical monastic traditions of apostate Roman Catholicism, i.e. no longer Christian—Apprising Ministries is doing all we can to bring this to the attention of the Body […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 28, 2008 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation
At the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina (BSCNC) of the Southern Baptist Convention there isn’t even an attempt to hide its openly embracing corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) and its Contemplative/Centering Prayer (CCP), which flowered in the antibiblical monastic traditions of apostate Roman Catholicism, i.e. not Christian.
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 23, 2008 in Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren, Southern Baptist Convention
In this feature piece Apprising Ministries will introduce the Body of Christ to an epidemic disease in the American Christian Church that might come to be referred to as: “Me-no-wanna-see-i-tus.” As one who has been an SBC pastor myself since 1994, this illness is particularly evident concerning my ongoing look at the growing influence of […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 20, 2008 in Features, Southern Baptist Convention
This is an update and follow-up to the Apprising Ministries piece “From Baptist State Convention of North Carolina (SBC) All the Way to Renovare and Living Spiritual Teacher Richard Foster” originally posted 12/10/2006. Shortly after this article appeared the original links from the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina (BSCNC) website that were used within […]