By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 17, 2009 in AM Mailbag, AM Missives
May God be praised for touching lives through Apprising Ministries well beyond our local community via the Lord using the Internet to spread His Truth, not unlike He once did house churches in the ancient Church:
Ken,
Just a quick response to your mailbag post questioning anti-emergent church accuracy in God’s will. I would just say God is not the author [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 14, 2009 in AM Mailbag, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Jay Bakker
Please know that as a general rule, and a courtesy, we do not publish email without the permission of the sender. However at the same time, all email sent to AM and Christian Research Network is considered the property of Apprising Ministries. The Lord knows I have spent much time these past four years privately answering emails [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 11, 2009 in AM Mailbag, Homosexuality/"Christian"
Please know that as a general rule, and a courtesy, we do not publish email without the permission of the sender.
However, at the same time, all email sent to AM and Christian Research Network is considered the property of Apprising Ministries and we may indeed publish unsolicited email for the purposes of edification, as if the case here:
Hello there,
I ran [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 5, 2009 in AM Mailbag, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church
The unsolicited email to follow is a good example of a pet Emerging Church argument, which really finds its root in an age-old question: Yea, hath God said?
—– Original Message —–
From: AM Reader
To: apprising@hughes.net
Sent: Friday, June 05, 2009 10:57 AM
Subject: Emerging Church Question — Apprising Ministries contact form
Dear Sir: As I have reflected upon what [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 1, 2009 in AM Mailbag, General Information
Please know that as a general rule, and a courtesy, we do not publish email without the permission of the sender. However, at the same time, all email sent to AM and CRN is considered the property of Apprising Ministries and we may indeed publish unsolicited email for the purposes of edification.
That said, all email sent via the contact forms from [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 16, 2009 in AM Mailbag, AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Richard Foster, Spiritual Formation
The following is from unsolicited email received from a brother pastor-teacher and is published with his permission. He was writing in response to the recent Apprising Ministries article Richard Foster A Reliable Source For Proper Christian Spirituality?
Sadly, Celebration of Discipline, a piece of spiritual skubalon by Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster, which Dr. Gary Gilley has rightly called “a virtual encyclopedia [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 9, 2009 in AM Mailbag
No matter how clearly we demonstrate it there are still those who express surprise and disbelief concerning the level to which corrupt quasi-Eastern Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) rooted in the Counter Reformation of apostate Roman Catholicism has penetrated the apostatizing and largely non-protesting “Protestant” Southern Baptist Convention. Below is eyewitness testimony to that end from an AM Reader who originally contacted me concerning the Apprising [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 1, 2009 in AM Mailbag, Current Issues, Features, Mormonism
Based upon the Rock of God’s Word in the Bible Apprising Ministries recently, and publicly, took a strong stand against the non-Christian cult of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons) in Apprising Ministries to Glenn Beck and the whining has already begun:
—– Original Message —–
From: AM Reader
To: apprising@hughes.net
Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2009 12:32 [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 17, 2008 in AM Mailbag
A reader of Apprising Ministries writes an email which illustrates more evangelical churches are just discovering a book by William Paul Young called The Shack. Pastor Larry DeBruyn brings out that Young is off-course even before he begins his writing:
Writing from the standpoint of being a one time “theological buddy” of Paul Young, author of The [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 9, 2008 in AM Mailbag
As this apostasy grows I have done my part. In the interest of saving time I present the following unsolicited email. If you are among the growing number who feel as the AM Critic below, then you now know what my response will be. Here I stand, the Lord’s will be done; no matter what, to the end…
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