By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 21, 2013 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features | 0 Comments
This time we live in is marred by the false philosophy of postmodernism, which is more deeply entrenched within the gates of Christendom than most realize. Circa 2000 mainstream evangelicalism made the ill-fated decision to embrace the sinfully ecumenical neo-liberal cult operating within the Emerging Church aka the Emergent Church. Sadly, the EC—headed by, among others, its trinity of apostates, Living […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 25, 2013 in Current Issues, Features | 0 Comments
This online apologetics and discernment ministry (OADM) Apprising Ministries continues to do our part to alert you to increasing syncretism within apostatizing mainstream evangelicalism. Following below I give you another example of how what should be important doctrinal differences are rapidly being obscured. Consider Jesus Culture’s Kim Walker-Smith’s Alleged Encounter With God The Father And Jesus Christ. Kim Walker-Smith […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 22, 2013 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features | 0 Comments
Apprising Ministries believes this is a very important issue that really needs to be brought more out into the light. Unfortunately, it’s still largely under the radar within the mainstream of Christendom; and keep in mind that I’m saying this as a pastor myself, because it needs saying. Recently I’ve been bringing the subject of growing […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 14, 2013 in Current Issues, Features | 0 Comments
By Dr. Orrel Steincamp, The Plumbline Newsletter Archive, republished with permission Some time ago a pastor was telling me his thoughts on how to reach his city for Christ. He had come to town to grow a large church. He had tried many canned programs with little result. He was now thinking about an organized “prayer walk” […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 30, 2012 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features | 0 Comments
In Means Of Grace: Searching The Scriptures the other day here at Apprising Ministries reminded you about the spread of what I call a cult of Foster-Willardism deep within mainstream Protestant evangelicalism; and with it, a rebirth of Pietism masquerading as the Spritiual Formation. A good four years ago in Spiritual Formation: Just Say No I warned that, with an assist from his spiritual twin Dallas […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 26, 2012 in Current Issues, Features | 0 Comments
The following by Dr. Gary Gilley, pastor of Southern View Chapel, is republished at Apprising Ministries with permission: One of the most popular and strongly promoted activities within spiritual formation is known as “The Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius Loyola.” As the name implies, these are exercises or activities invented by the Roman Catholic monk Ignatius […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 21, 2012 in Current Issues, Features | 0 Comments
The following was originally published at Stand Up For The Truth and is republished here with permission: What’s with all the hoopla and hysteria about the date December 21, 2012? No, mainstream media, it’s not about the Mayan calendar predicting the end of the world. But it is the culmination of a 25-year plan in the making that those […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 20, 2012 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Roman Catholicism | 0 Comments
Over the past seven years this online apologetics and discernment ministry (OADM) here at Apprising Ministries has been among those warning you of the grave dangers involved with the corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) as perpetrated by Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster. From years of researching CSM and Foster himself, I can tell you that he and his spiritual twin Dallas […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 23, 2012 in Current Issues, Features | 0 Comments
By way of putting this in perspective for you, a couple of years ago in Tim Keller And Contemplative Pastrix Adele Calhoun here at Apprising Ministries I showed you that New Calvinist mentor Tim Keller actually endorses this book of Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism by pastrix Adele Calhoun: (source) The following by Dr. Gary Gilley, pastor of Southern View Chapel, […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 24, 2012 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features | 0 Comments
“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord God, “when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord. They shall wander from sea to sea, and from north to east; they shall run to and fro, to seek the […]