By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 16, 2012 in Current Issues, Features | 0 Comments
I’ve pointed out many times now that as a general rule, and a courtesy, we do not publish email without the permission of the sender. At the same time, all email sent to AM and Christian Research Network is considered the property of Apprising Ministries so we may indeed publish unsolicited email for the purposes of edification. I received […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 9, 2012 in Current Issues, Features | 0 Comments
By Christian Research Network contributor Christine Pack of Sola Sisters This is a repost of an original article on Sola Sisters “And you’ve heard the rumor, that Pastor Jim killed the Beth Moore trip. Let me clarify that rumor: I killed the Beth Moore trip.” -Pastor Jim Murphy Thank you to a friend of mine […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 13, 2012 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features | 0 Comments
I begin this piece here at Apprising Ministries by pointing you to yet another illustration of the type of syncretism slithering into contemporary evangelicalism right now because it chose to open its arms to the neo-liberal cult openly operating within the Emerging Church aka the Emergent Church. For you see, this was the Trojan Horse […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 18, 2012 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features | Comments Off on MAY 2012 CONFERENCE TO INDOCTRINATE CHILDREN INTO BRIAN MCLAREN MYTHOLOGY
For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ… Yet in like manner these people also, relying on their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme the glorious […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 9, 2012 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features | Comments Off on GOD GIVES KEN SILVA A WORD FOR SEEKER DRIVEN/ATTRACTIONAL MEGAPASTORS
Apprising Ministries continues our coverage of the sad slide in the love of self (cf. 2 Timothy 3:2) going on within apostatizing mainstream evangelicalism. While the Church Growth Movement is at the heart of it, it was seriously accelerated by its infected arm which became known as the Emerging Church aka the Emergent Church. Other […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 25, 2012 in Current Issues, Features | Comments Off on THE JUSTICE CONFERENCE SEEKS GOD'S HEART FOR JUSTICE, BUT WHICH GOD?
By Christian Research Network correspondent Erin Benziger of Do Not Be Surprised… This is a repost of an original article on Do Not Be Surprised… If an Emergent, a liberal theologian and an evangelical are all speaking at the same conference, addressing the same issue, seeking to arrive at a unified conclusion, can they be successful? What […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 6, 2011 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features | Comments Off on CONFERENCE TO INDOCTRINATE CHILDREN INTO BRIAN MCLAREN MYTHOLOGY
For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ… Yet in like manner these people also, relying on their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme the glorious […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 30, 2011 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features | Comments Off on IN TOUCH MAGAZINE OF CHARLES STANLEY PROMOTING CONTEMPLATIVE NEW MONASTICISM
While I make no claim to know when the Lord Jesus will return, I will say that it’s entirely possible we are living in a time where we are seeing the beginning of a great falling away. And so a large part of our online apologetics and discernment labors Apprising Ministries is to document the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 28, 2011 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Spiritual Formation | Comments Off on MAINSTREAM EVANGELICALISM EMBRACING CONTEMPLATIVE MYSTICISM
O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified. Let me ask you only this: Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing with faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 27, 2011 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features | Comments Off on REVIEW: THE LIFE YOU'VE ALWAYS WANTED, SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINES FOR ORDINARY PEOPLE BY JOHN ORTBERG
The following by Dr. Gary Gilley, pastor of Southern View Chapel, is republished at Apprising Ministries with permission: Ortberg, a teaching pastor at Willow Creek Community Church, published The Life You’ve Always Wanted in 1997 and expanded it in 2002. The book provides a good taste of the style and content of the teaching at […]