The Lord be praised, last night I had the privilege of representing Apprising Ministries on Rapture Ready Radio. The main topics of discussion comprised the fallout of the Elephant Room 2 where Word Faith mogul T.D. Jakes and the Code Orange De-vival of Prophet-Pastor Steven Furtick.

If you didn’t know, RRR is made up of Matt Buff, the founder of Rapture Ready Radio, along with author Jim Fletcher purveyor of Prophecy Matters and writer at such places like World Net Daily, and Chris Quintana, long time Christian leader and the senior pastor at Calvary Chapel Cypress in California.

I know I sure enjoyed what I believe was an informative discussion. You can listen to the program below; or if you wish, you can also hear it or download this edition of Rapture Ready Radio right here.

See also:

STEVEN FURTICK AND JAMES MACDONALD

T.D. JAKES PROSPERITY GOSPEL; SOW A SEED, GOD WILL BLESS YOU

MARK DRISCOLL, ACTS 29 NETWORK, AND RICK WARREN

LOVE HIM or hate him, there’s no denying the syndicated radio and Fox News host Glenn Beck, a Mormon, has become the de facto spokesman for conservative Christians in America.

But his “Restoring Honor” rally at the Lincoln Memorial yesterday shows that his call for political change has morphed into a call for revival:

“Something beyond imagination is happening.  America today begins to turn back to God. For too long, this country has wandered in darkness.”

Pastor Ken Silva, president of Apprising Ministries, talks about Beck’s message and whether Christians should align themselves with a professing Mormon in what has become a religious movement.

We also touch on the emergent church, contemplative spirituality, and the ELCA’s recent decision to admit openly homosexual clergy into the pulpit, and trace these movements — including the call to “take America Back” on religious grounds — to the rejection of sola scriptura in favor of new “revelations”… (Online source)

You can dowload and listen to the program right here.

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THE “JESUS” OF GLENN BECK

JOHN MACARTHUR: NO SPIRITUAL COMMON GROUND BETWEEN BIBLICAL CHRISTIANITY AND MORMONISM

THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS VS. THE GOSPEL

PRISCILLA SHIRER PROMOTING CONTEMPLATIVE/CENTERING PRAYER

THE NEW DOWNGRADE AND ITS APOSTLES OF UNBELIEF

EMERGING CHURCH ELCA PASTRIX NADIA BOLZ-WEBER BOLDER IN APOSTASY

THE NEW CHRISTIANS WITH CHRISTIANITY WORTH BELIEVING—NO SOLA SCRIPTURA: YES, WOMEN PASTORS AND QUEER CHRISTIANS

From David Wheaton at his The Christian Worldview blog:

(Online source)

You can download and listen to the program right here.

See also:

EVANGELICALISM USING ITS YOUNG AS SPIRITUAL GUINEA PIGS

CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY OF RICHARD FOSTER ROOTED IN THE EASTERN DESERT AND THOMAS MERTON

DALLAS WILLARD ENCOURAGES CONTEMPLATIVE/CENTERING PRAYER

CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY/MYSTICISM (CSM) OF SPIRITUAL FORMATION IS RECKLESS FAITH

THE NEW CONTEMPLATIVE CALVINISM

NEW CALVINISM’S MARK DRISCOLL ENCOURAGES CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINES?

TIM KELLER ENDORSING COUNTER-REFORMATION CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY?

Pastor Ken Siva, president of the online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries, and General Editor of Christian Research Net along with Chris Rosebrough, host of Fighting for the Faith on Pirate Christian Radio, joined Ingrid Schlueter of her Crosstalk Radio show today to discuss A Covenant For Civility. 

In Jim Wallis And Sojourners Whine About Civility For Those HiJacking Christianity it was pointed out that from a group which contains among it not a few outright heretics—such as Tony Campolo and Emerging Church guru Brian McLaren—who’re busy trying to hijack the Christian faith.

From the Crosstalk website:

Emergent Church leader Brian McClaren, social justice guru Jim Wallis and some evangelical notables such as Chuck Colson, have signed a document called the “Covenant for Civility”.

According to Ken, the document is an attempt to communicate that there are pastors and leaders of various theological and political beliefs. It recommends that all bitterness, anger and slander be set aside so that all factions can be kind to one another. While this sounds pious, Ken believes it’s really an attempt to silence orthodox Christians.

Chris agreed, putting the covenant in the context of the non-aggression pact that Hitler signed with the Soviet Union so that he could attack Poland. Chris believes the Covenant for Civility is about coming into agreement with those who are orthodox and willing to speak out against heresy so that they will “shut up”. The result is that the authors of the covenant can go about continuing to destroy Christianity. (Online source)

You can download and listen to this Crosstalk program right here.

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JESUS, RECONSIDERED: BRIAN MCLAREN AND AL MOHLER ON NPR

BRIAN MCLAREN AND HIS NEW EMERGING PROGRESSIVE THEOLOGY

LIBERALISM 2.0 THE NEW PROGRESSIVE CHRISTIAN

BRIAN MCLAREN ON DOUG PAGITT RADIO

PHILIP CLAYTON AND HIS TRANSFORMING THEOLOGY

THE EMERGING CHURCH, PHILIP CLAYTON, AND NEW PROGRESSIVE THEOLOGY

EMERGING CHURCH THEOLOGIAN LEONARD SWEET TO SPEAK AT PASTOR SKIP HEITZIG’S CALVARY CHAPEL CHURCH

In this program of Mission America pastor Ken Silva discusses with host Linda Harvey how AM began, why the EC became a focal point, and then provides a basic overview of why this de-formation of the Christian faith is so dangerous.

You can listen to this program right here.

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BRIAN MCLAREN INVITES YOU ON HIS QUEST TO DESTROY CHRISTIANITY

MEET MENTORS AND METHODOLOGY OF BRIAN MCLAREN

IS ROB BELL EVANGELICAL?

MYSTICISM MELDS MUSLIM MYSTICS TO TONY CAMPOLO AND EMERGENCE CHRISTIANITY

TONY JONES, THE EMERGING CHURCH AND PROGRESSIVE CHRISTIANITY

DOUG PAGITT AND ARROGANCE OF LIBERAL/PROGRESSIVE CHRISTIANS

THE NEW CHRISTIANS WITH CHRISTIANITY WORTH BELIEVING—NO SOLA SCRIPTURA: YES, WOMEN PASTORS AND QUEER CHRISTIANS

HOW DO Christians know what to think when our pastors bring teachings into church that are rooted in heresy or the occult? Discernment, that’s how. Know the genuine article so you can spot the counterfeit.

Our guest has made a ministry of pointing out false doctrine in some of the brightest lights in American Churchianity today, from evangelicals like Rick Warren and Joel Osteen to charismatics like Rick Joyner and Todd Bentley. Pastor Ken Silva is the President of Apprising Ministries and the General Editor of Christian Research Net. We discussed the hijacking of conservative evangelical denominations by New Age mysticism and how to spot these dangerous teachings.

Come visit our Facebook page, and check out the great Christian podcasters at the Revelations Radio Network. (Online source)

You can download and listen to this program, which is hosted by Derek Gilbert, right here.

In a video clip, which you can see in Perry Noble Says You’re A Jackass, Noble also quotes John Maxwell telling us the following pietistic foolishness that supposedly “most Christians are educated way beyond their level of obedience anyway.” Silva also briefly mentions the controversy as outlined in the AM post Dr. James Duncan On Pirate Christian Radio To Discuss Issue With Perry Noble’s Newspring Church.

Therein Duncan, Associate Professor of Communication at Anderson University, lays out what he first told us about in Holy rage at the ‘Spring over at his Pajama Pages blog concerning:

how NewSpring insiders attempted to corrupt my family, sabotage an adoption, destroy my career, and ruin my reputation. This campaign, which became the subject of a police investigation, was conducted with the knowledge and encouragement of NewSpring’s senior leadership. (Online source) 

Interestingly enough, just today Silva himself received an harassing phone call from someone, who may be aligned with Noble, accusing him of “pastor-bashing.” Also in this edition of ISI Silva talked about an upcoming conference called Radicalis at the Saddleback Church of Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren, discussed in Rick Warren Now Openly Promoting Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism.

Radicalis, which also happens to feature Perry Noble, gives Warren the opportunity to promote the ministry of another of the speakers by the name of Pete Scazerro. Warren tells us:

Pete, along with his wife, Geri, are co-founders of Emotionally Healthy Spirituality, a groundbreaking ministry that integrates emotional health and contemplative spirituality to pastors, leaders and local churches. (On file at AM)

Silva and Arnzen also talk about the coming ramifications within mainstream evangelicalism now that someone who has the stature within the visible church that Rick Warren enjoys is recommending pastors begin practicing corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) ala Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster—and his spiritual twin Dallas Willard.

ISI is the only show in English on a Spanish-speaking radio station, and unfortunately, the final few minutes of this edition of ISI were lost. However, you can download and listen to the program right here.

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PERRY NOBLE PAYS HOMAGE TO RICK WARREN AND TELLS HIS CRITICS “THEY CAN KISS MY…”

PURPOSE-DRIVEN POPES OF THE CAROLINAS HAVE SPOKEN

SBC PROTESTANT PASTOR RICK WARREN DOUBLE-MINDED ON THE REFORMATION AND ROMAN CATHOLICISM

KEN SILVA ON IRON SHARPENS IRON: EMERGING CHURCH GURUS AND ROMAN CATHOLIC MYSTICISM IN PROTESTANT EVANGELICALISM

ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH INFILTRATING EVANGELICALISM

CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY/MYSTICISM CREEPS CLOSER…TO YOUR CHURCH

KEN SILVA: THE ATTACK ON SOLA SCRIPTURA

Apprising Ministries pointed out recently Shane Hipps Accepts Teaching Pastor Job With Rob Bell at Mars Hill Bible Church in Grand Rapids, MI. [Hipps is] MHBC’s new co-pastor alongside Rob Bell, who, as our guest today, Ken Silva, describes as “the Elvis of the egregiously ecumenical Emerging Church aka Emergent Church de-formation of the Christian faith—now morphing into Emergence Christianity“,…

In that latter sermon, A Gentle Stillness, you’ll read as Hipps leads MHBC while they “practice some silence together.” Our guest Ken Silva was personally involved with meditation before he was regenerated and has been “studying this spiritually corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) ala Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster and his spiritual twin Dallas Willard for years now…”

Ken literally [has] hundreds of books concerning CSM from virtually every religion and “silence” is mystic-speak for meditation in an altered state of consciousness, which is precisely what it is. Hipps himself explains below this practice of silence is not simply being alone and not speaking, it is going within one’s self in a transcendental meditation-lite for the Christian aka Contemplative/Centering Prayer. (Online source) 

You can download and/or listen to this program right here.

See also:

SILENCE SHANE HIPPS

SHANE HIPPS, CO-PASTOR WITH ROB BELL, SAYS ALL RELIGIONS VALID

SHANE HIPPS EXPOSED

SHANE HIPPS EXPOSED II

THROUGH ROB BELL “THE GREAT ENLIGHTENED ONES” TELL US MAN HAS DIVINE GREATNESS

“INWARD JOURNEY” ESPOUSED BY RICHARD FOSTER IS A FORM OF DIVINATION

MEDITATING ON CONTEMPLATIVE/CENTERING PRAYER

“Gay Affirming” clergy like ELCA “pastor” Nadia Bolz-Weber and “Outlaw pastor” Jay Bakker and are steadily gaining ground within evangelicalism. And for that reason we alert you again that there’s a very dark and threatening same-sex storm right now approaching hurricane force, and which is currently only slightly off the coast of the mainstream evangelical community.

With this critical backdrop we now point you to the website of the popular radio program Iron Sharpens Iron with host Chris Arnzen:

Ken Silva, pastor of Connecticut River Baptist Church & president of Apprising Ministries in Claremont, NH, will address the theme: “Jay Bakker, Radical Love & Homosexuality”. (Online source)

You can listen to/download this timely program by clicking here.

See also:

JAY BAKKER, RADICAL LOVE, AND HOMOSEXUALITY

HOMOPRESSIVE AS JAY BAKKER

JOHN SHELBY SPONG ADMITS HOMOSEXUALITY IS CONDEMNED IN SCRIPTURE

BUT DO EMERGENCE CHRISTIANITY AND BRIAN MCLAREN REALLY LOVE GAY PEOPLE?

THE NEW CHRISTIANS WITH CHRISTIANITY WORTH BELIEVING—NO SOLA SCRIPTURA: YES, WOMEN PASTORS AND QUEER CHRISTIANS

TONY JONES WILL DISCUSS HOMOSEXUALITY BUT NOT FROM SCRIPTURE

CHRIS ROSEBROUGH THOROUGHLY DEBUNKS MEL WHITE

AL STEIN, pastor of the Neighborhood Assembly of God in Bellmore, Long Island, NY, & KEN SILVA, pastor of Connecticut River Baptist Church & president of Apprising Ministries in Claremont, NH, will address the theme: “THE SHACK: A Critical Examination“.

The above-mentioned book, “THE SHACK“, by William Paul Young, has apparently been flying off the bookshelves of many retail outlets and the stockrooms of Internet booksellers. It reached #6 on Amazon’s religious fiction book sales list and the New York Times Bestseller list. Pastor, scholar, author, and poet Eugene H. Peterson, who wrote the Gold Medallion Book Award winner “The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language”, said of “The Shack”:

“This book has the potential to do for our generation what John Bunyan’s ‘Pilgrim’s Progress’ did for his. It’s that good!”

But should Christians spend their valuable time and hard-earned money reading this book?

Our guests today, Al Stein & Ken Silva, answer that question with a resounding “NO!” Learn why this very popular work of religious fiction is poison for the mind and soul, and how it heretically and dangerously distorts the person and work of all three members of the Godhead, the very nature of the Gospel and the innate spiritual condition of mankind.

Stein & Silva also hope this disturbing quote (below) from “The Shack” will cause all who profess to know and love Christ and His Holy Scriptures to wholeheartedly reject Eugene Peterson’s previously quoted astonishing claim about Young’s vision of the Gospel and will trump his recommendations to read it:

“Those who love me come from every system that exists. They were Buddhists or Mormons, Baptists or Muslims…. I have no desire to make them Christian, but I do want to join them in their transformation into sons and daughters of my Papa, into my brothers and sisters.”
-–The Shack’s “Jesus.” [1,p.182]  (Online source)

See also:

GAITHER FAMILY FEST 2009 FEATURES PAUL YOUNG AUTHOR OF “THE SHACK”

DR. GARY GILLEY SHUTS UP “THE SHACK”

STAY AWAY FROM “THE SHACK”

Gloria Gaither Endorses “The Shack”

The Shack Author Denies Biblical Substitutionary Atonement

Link to A Partial Transcript of Young Interview