Category: Features
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 1, 2007 in Current Issues, Devotions, Emergent Church, Features
What you will read below is a very prevalent view in the seriously off-track and heading for a crash “missional” man-centered emerging church and its new breed new evangelical sister. In more technical terms: orthopraxy trumps orthodoxy. But at the bottom line what we are witnessing in a New Downgrade is a rebellion against proper […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 27, 2007 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Features, Radio Appearances
The Lord be praised for the opportunity to appear on the Truth In Focus (TIF) radio program. TIF is part of Thinking Biblically, which “features the weekly Christian worldview radio show, Truth in Focus, with hosts: Dan Woods and Gordon Thiessen. It is broadcast every Sunday morning, 10:30 AM, on AM-750.”
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 2, 2007 in Current Issues, Erwin McManus, Features
By Ron Foster Apprising Ministries Correspondent ronfosterca-apprising@yahoo.com “I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.’” – Isaiah 14:14 “Create the future” – Erwin McManus. Two of Erwin McManus’s favorite topics are heroism and potential: Every person has a hero inside of them waiting to be discovered, […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 8, 2007 in Current Issues, Emergent Church, Erwin McManus, Features, Southern Baptist Convention
By Ron Foster Apprising Ministries Correspondent ronfosterca-apprising@yahoo.com In Erwin McManus’s sermon entitled “Is Faith Nonsense?” [1] he commented on Isaiah 6:9-10 saying, “This is God in one of His most facetious moments.” He goes on to say, “This is God speaking into the human condition saying, ‘You are broken and your capacity to know me […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 7, 2007 in Current Issues, Emergent Church, Features
One simply could not find a more fitting title concerning the Emergent Church. Yesterday I was drawn into an already ongoing flap with a guy named David Hayward, “an artist trapped in a pastor’s body,” who calls himself the “Naked Pastor.”
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 26, 2007 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Features, Radio Appearances
To God alone be the glory as the Lord opened a door for me as “Founder and Director of Apprising Ministries” to once again be on the Crosstalk Program of VCY America. Again the topic was Harry Potter and host Jim Schneider also had as his guest my friend Berit Kjos of Kjos Ministries. And […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 25, 2007 in Current Issues, Features, Radio Appearances
The Lord be praised for a chance for me to appear on TruNews along with my friend Berit Kjos to discuss Harry Potter, Witchcraft and apostasy within the Christian Church in general.
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 11, 2007 in Brian McLaren, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Erwin McManus, Features, Rick Warren, Rob Bell, Roman Catholicism, Southern Baptist Convention
I put the article referenced below out here on Apprising Ministries back during the now long since forgotten Ted Haggard scandal. Does anyone still remember that? Does anyone even remember how the blogosphere was full of calls for a new reformation? Yes, it all sounded so righteous. However, I seriously doubt many of those calling […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 6, 2007 in Current Issues, Emergent Church, Features
Apprising Ministries brings you this video link concerning the universalism now preached by Carlton Pearson. CNN News then informs us Pearson is the: “Evangelist who denounced gays [and] has [had a] change of heart: los[ing] mega-church, friends and income.”
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 5, 2007 in Current Issues, Emergent Church, Erwin McManus, Features, Southern Baptist Convention
Apprising Ministries correspondent Ron Foster has filed the first part of his expose on the false teachings of Erwin McManus the cultural architect and lead pastor of a gathering place in the emerging church known as Mosaic. In this important piece Foster says: Erwin McManus has made it crystal clear that he hates Christianity. This is very […]
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