By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 22, 2014 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features | 0 Comments
Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 30, 2014 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren, Southern Baptist Convention | 0 Comments
Here at Apprising Ministries I’ve been talking to you about the hue and cry for unity, and this at the expense of proper Biblical doctrine, that’s currently going on within apostatizing evangelicalism. As you might imagine, this has been leading to some rather bizarre happenings and syncretism. For example, we have the quasi-Reformed Francis Chan standing in the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 1, 2014 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features | 0 Comments
Now when the Pharisees gathered to [Jesus], with some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem, they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands that were defiled, that is, unwashed. (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands properly, holding to the tradition of the elders, and when they come […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 24, 2014 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features | 0 Comments
One of the current issues I’m trying to alert you to here at Apprising Ministries is an increasing charismania running along a parallel track with mainstream evangelicalism’s lust for corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM); and it becomes an especially deadly spiritual cocktail when imbibed together. For example, CSM and hyper-charismatic practices form the base for the spurious theology of the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 20, 2014 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features | 0 Comments
UPDATE: THE MASTER’S COLLEGE WITHDRAWS AS EXHIBITOR AT UPCOMING LINGER CONFERENCE I begin by pointing out that this all started with the Apprising Ministries article John Piper And Stephen Venable Of IHOP Together At Linger Conference. Now I’m fully aware that today we’re in a New Downgrade No-Controversy, so I didn’t cover this expecting much reaction at all. […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 16, 2014 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features | 0 Comments
UPDATE: STEPHEN VENABLE OUT OF LINGER CONFERENCE UPDATE: THE MASTER’S COLLEGE WITHDRAWS AS EXHIBITOR AT UPCOMING LINGER CONFERENCE UPDATE: JOHN PIPER AND LINGER CONFERENCE WITH IHOP’S STEPHEN VENABLE AND HIS CONTEMPLATIVE TEACHING One of the many areas of apostasy within evangelicalism that Apprising Ministries has been covering over the past two years or so is the increase of Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM), along […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 20, 2012 in Current Issues, Features | 0 Comments
Christian Research Network is a sister work of Apprising Ministries. Readers of this online apologetics and discernment ministry know I’ve been warning of false unity and syncretism between mainstream evangelicals and hyper-Pentecostal/charismatics in the warped Word Faith camp. Perhaps the most blatant was seen in Elephant Room 2 with co-hosts James MacDonald and Mark Driscoll. They would use ER2 to mainstream Word Faith […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 14, 2012 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Steven Furtick | 0 Comments
Just as long as funding will allow, Apprising Ministries continues on among those pioneering the still-developing mission field of online apologetics and discernment ministry (OADM). Sadly, this path has now led to having to write posts like James MacDonald Was A Bit Late In Mainstreaming T.D. Jakes and Perry Noble, Jack Graham, And Quasi-Word Faith Preachers. Where once the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 11, 2012 in Current Issues, Features | 0 Comments
In Elephant Room Curator James MacDonald Points Us To A Couple Conferences Of Interest here at Apprising Ministries I showed you that Seeker Driven megapastor Miles McPherson will be among the speakers this October for Acts 29 Network at their Resurgence R12 conference: (source) The archives of AM show I first mentioned Miles McPherson in 2010 as part […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 3, 2012 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features | Comments Off on THE ORIGIN OF CONTEMPLATIVE/CENTERING PRAYER
They did not destroy the peoples, as the LORD commanded them, but they mixed with the nations and learned to do as they did. They served their idols, which became a snare to them. (Psalm 106:34-36) CSM Was A Core Doctrine Of The Emerging Church We can point to Apprising Ministries articles Beth Moore The Mystic and Alabama Baptist Convention (SBC) Encourages You […]