By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 9, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Southern Baptist Convention
Southern Baptist pastor Ed Young, Jr is the very popular Purpose Driven/Seeker Driven pastor of a megachurch known as Fellowship Church (FC) in Grapevine, TX. Young’s bio at FC tells us:
Ed Young is a pastor, author and conference speaker noted for his creative communication style. He has a passion for making the complex, simple as he speaks [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 8, 2010 in Current Issues, Southern Baptist Convention
As a follow-up to SBC Pastor Ed Young Jr In Luxury Cover-Up? here at Apprising Ministries I point you to Ed Young Jr’s blog where he tells us he’s Setting Things Straight and Moving On.
In introducing his video of the same title at his blog today Young, Jr says:
I took the opportunity to thank the church [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 8, 2010 in Current Issues, Features, Quotes, Theology
By this divine work the sinner is re-created in and to newness of life, has the defilement of his heart cleansed or “washed” away (Ezek. 36:25-26; John 3:5; Titus 3:5), and is [supernatually] enabled to “see” and to “enter” the kingdom of God by faith (John 3:3, 5).
He is also enabled to believe in Jesus [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 7, 2010 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Southern Baptist Convention
In articles like Dr. Jay McDaniel And Mysticism At Northwest Nazarene Universary and Southern Baptist Convention Embracing The Emerging Church and Rick Warren And Peter Scazzero With Messed-Up Monk-ee Bizness here at Apprising Ministries I continue to warn of the crippling effects of corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) ala Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster, with an assist from his spiritual twin Dallas [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 6, 2010 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Spiritual Formation
Along with other online apologetics and discernment ministries such as Lighthouse Trails Reseach (LTR) here at Apprising Ministries I’m doing what I can to alert you as to how far corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) ala Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster, with an assist from his spiritual twin Dallas Willard, has now penetrated mainstream evangelicalism.
You need to understand that this refried Roman Catholic Counter Reformation [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 6, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian"
All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work. (2 Timothy 3:16-17, NASB)
Thus Saith The Lord; Or Human Authors Of Scripture?
Apprising Ministries brings to your attention Gene Robinson: Same-sex acts unnatural for heterosexuals, which [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 5, 2010 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Southern Baptist Convention
Apprising Ministries told you in Southern Baptist Convention Embracing The Emerging Church about a grievous mistake being made by the Baptist General Association Of Virginia (BGAV) aka the Virginia Baptist Mission Board. You may recall that the BGAV is one of the two Virgina state conventions aligned with the national Southern Baptist Convention; the other being the Southern Baptist Conservatives Of Virginia.
In [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 5, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Southern Baptist Convention
*UPDATE* The interested reader is encouraged to examine the additional information in ED YOUNG JR SAYS HE’S SETTING THINGS STRAIGHT.
More bad news for those of us still with the Southern Baptist Convention. In the video below we’re told of an alleged cover up involving popular Southern Baptist pastor Ed Young Jr.
At his A Little Leaven website [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 5, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Southern Baptist Convention
Apprising Ministries correspondent and Christian Research Network contributor Jim Lupacchino has an important story at his Watcher’s Lamp website that’s related to the AM post The Morphing Emerging Church Movement. In his Virginia Baptists Promoting Emergent Phyllis Tickle Luppachino informs us:
The Baptist General Association of Virginia’s (BGAV) Mission Board shares The Parish Paper :
The Virginia Baptist [...]