Category: Doug Pagitt
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 29, 2010 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Doug Pagitt, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Youth Ministry
Apprising Ministries continues doing what we can to alert spiritually obtuse pretending to be Protestant evangelicals to the grave dangers and deceptions of embracing the Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) perpetrated by Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster, along with his friend and spiritual twin SBC minister Dallas Willard, as so-called Spiritual Formation (SF). But CSM is nothing more than refried Roman Catholic mysticism with [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 22, 2010 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Dan Kimball, Doug Pagitt, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Erwin McManus, Features, Henri Nouwen, Jay Bakker, Jim Wallis, Joel Osteen, John Hagee, Leonard Sweet, Marcus Borg, New Apostolic Reformation, New Spirituality, Peter Rollins, Richard Abanes, Richard Foster, Rick Warren, Rob Bell, Robert Schuller, Roman Catholicism, Shane Claiborne/New Monasticism, Shane Hipps, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation, T.D. Jakes, Tony Campolo, Tony Jones, Who Is..., Word Faith, Youth Ministry
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 15, 2010 in AM Missives, Creationism, Current Issues, Doug Pagitt, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Critics of online apologetics and discernment works such as Apprising Ministries are under the mistaken impression that someone like myself goes “looking for” these issues I’ve been covering these past 5+ years as Jesus has built this ministry of His Gospel. They couldn’t be more wrong. What usually happens is I’ll receive an email or message [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 21, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Doug Pagitt, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
A main focus of this particular online apologetics and discernment work here at Apprising Ministries, has been monitoring and exposing of the Emerging Church, now upgraded to 2.0 with its newer, more clearly delineated, postmodern Progressive Christian theology. This new, and not improved, liberal theology—a Liberalism 2.0—is what this sinfully ecumenical neo-liberal cult of the Emergent Church will often refer to as “big tent” Emergence Christianity. [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 20, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Doug Pagitt, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Rob Bell, Youth Ministry
By Apprising Ministries correspondent Christine Pack of Sola Sisters It used to be that Universalists behaved and stayed in the New Age where they belonged. But sadly, those days are over. And it used to be that a Universalist message was easy to “hear” and distinguish from the exclusive message of Christ. Again, no more. [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 18, 2010 in Current Issues, Doug Pagitt, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church
As part of our online apologetics and discernment ministry Apprising Ministries been documenting the New Downgrade within evangelicalism because of its ignominious embrace of the now upgraded Emerging Church 2.0 with its newer, more clearly delineated, postmodern Progressive Christian theology. In addition this new, and not improved, liberal theology—a Liberalism 2.0—is what this sinfully ecumenical neo-liberal cult of the Emergent Church will often refer to [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 13, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Doug Pagitt, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Youth Ministry
I’ve been mentioning lately that here at Apprising Ministries, that as this tsunami of apostasy grows—likely fueled by 1 Peter 4:17 judgments sent by Jesus—I’m essentially just documenting the things I’m so people will have no excuse. A case in point is my writing concerning the sinfully ecumenical neo-liberal cult of the Emerging Church—a veritable Trojan Horse [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 13, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Doug Pagitt, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Youth Ministry
There’s a common straw man concerning those of us Jesus has sent into the mission field of online apologetics and discernment ministry—which He’s continuing to develop—erected by many of those whose doctrine we criticize; and that would be, we are haters who’re striking out in anger. Nope; sorry about that chief. I happen to know [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 11, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Doug Pagitt, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian", Jay Bakker, Youth Ministry
In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes. (Judges 17:6) The Blind Leading The Blind As spiritual blindness grows and a tsunami of apostasy approaches a large part of my task here at the online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries is to cover, and document, issues within the visible [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 23, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Doug Pagitt, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Youth Ministry
Thorns and snares are in the way of the crooked; whoever guards his soul will keep far from them. (Proverbs 22:5) Mysticism Will Only Spread Spiritual Deception Apprising Ministries has been warning you that evanjellyfish is only just beginning to pay a heavy price for its foolish embrace of the sinfully ecumenial Emerging Church aka Emergent Church; [...]
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