Category: AM Missives
By AM on Nov 21, 2008 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Features, New Spirituality, Radio Appearances, Rob Bell
In his sermon I will say it again, and again, and again, Sunday November 16, 2008, Emergent Church icon Rob Bell shares a common mantra of those neo-Gnostics involved in the Contemplative/Centering Prayer of Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism.
For them it is the mystics in various religious traditions who are the great enlightened ones. Bell says:
It’s interesting how many traditions [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 21, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Tony Jones
To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their minds and their consciences are defiled. They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work. (Titus 1:15-16, ESV)
When Our Creator God Spoke Long Ago [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 20, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Features, Tony Jones, Youth Ministry
Tony Jones, author of the book The New Christianity Christians and a leading theologian in the Emergent Church is out of the closet now concerning his views that unrepentant practicing homosexuals can become Christians, which Apprising Ministries first pointed out in Tony Jones and the Emergent Church: “Christian” Gay is A-Ok.
We took a lot of heat for bringing it out [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 19, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Southern Baptist Convention
It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery. (Galatians 5:1, NASB)
How Would You Know If You Were Being Taught False Doctrine?
At the Lifeway: Biblical Solutions for Life website of the Southern Baptist Convention we read:
Together again for 2009! Join [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 18, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Spiritual Formation
Apprising Ministries draws to your attention a story in The Leaf Chronicle of Clarksville, TN; yes, that Clarksville, concerning the way more and more who profess Christianity are currently becoming involved with the corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) at the heart of spurious Spiritual Formation snake-oil sold by Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster.
Given a veneer of scholasticism by Foster’s spiritual twin Dallas Willard, at its rotten [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 18, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Features
Below you’ll see religious writer Phyllis Tickle hawking her latest book The Great Emergence (TGE), which is published by Baker Books. Going onto their website as of this writing it’s pretty hard to miss Tickle’s book. Well, there’s really a little more to the story.
For you see, TGE is actually from Baker’s Emersion: Emergent Village resources for [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 16, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Southern Baptist Convention
To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn. (Isaiah 8:20, NASB)
Emergence Theory Of A Coming Higher Consciousness of Man As The New Tower Of Babel
It all started innocently enough; an AM reader asked me what I knew about Dr. Michael [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 14, 2008 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Doug Pagitt, Emergent Church, Features, New Spirituality, Richard Foster, Rob Bell, Shane Claiborne/New Monasticism, Spiritual Formation, Tony Campolo, Youth Ministry
Come, O house of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the LORD. You have abandoned your people, the house of Jacob. They are full of superstitions from the East; they practice divination like the Philistines and clasp hands with pagans. (Isaiah 2:5-6)
Eastern-Style Meditation As The Bridge To Unite All Religions And Transform Mankind
Building on It’s High Time To Realize [...]
By AM on Nov 13, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Radio Appearances, Rob Bell
This edition of Fighting for the Faith podcast hosted by Chris Rosebrough also features Ken Silva of Apprising Ministries joining him in breaking down a recent sermon by Emerging Church icon Rob Bell.
Rosebrough and Silva discuss the way Bell makes a big mess in his sermon as he attempts to exegete Philippians 3: 2 — Watch out for those dogs, [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 9, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Richard Foster
The Word of the LORD came to me: Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who are now prophesying. Say to those who prophesy out of their own imagination: ‘Hear the Word of the LORD! This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit and have seen [...]
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