By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 10, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Roman Catholicism
Apprising Ministries continues to warn you of increasing spiritual darkness falling across Christendom as a whole and evangelicalism in particular. This is part of 1 Peter 4:17 judgment Jesus Himself is sending to shake the visible Christian church. It’s well past time for you to realize the time in which we live. One of deceitful spirits [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 10, 2011 in Current Issues, Features, Roman Catholicism
The one thing that the spirit of tolerance of our day cannot tolerate is intolerance, because relationships have become more important than truth. Now what’s at stake here, if I understand the New Testament where the Apostle Paul writes the Galatians and says, “If anybody, anybody, if it’s Peter, if it’s Barnabus, if it’s an [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 9, 2011 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Roman Catholicism
For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. (Galatians 5:1) In this chapter the Apostle Paul presents the doctrine of Christian liberty in a final effort to persuade the Galatians to give up the nefarious doctrine of the false apostles. To accomplish his [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 8, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Roman Catholicism
Being in the field of online apologetics and discernment here at Apprising Ministries I’m often accused of writing in anger. Well, indeed, this is sometimes quite true. However, as one Jesus also called as a pastor-teacher, I offer that it isn’t my anger I’m expressing. Such is the case here as I cover more of this New Downgrade [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 14, 2011 in Current Issues, Features, Roman Catholicism
By Anton Bosch, pastor of Sun Valley Community Church, Sun Valley, CA The Bible paints quite a clear picture of the major events that precede the return of the Lord Jesus Christ to the earth. Many of the smaller details may be difficult to interpret but the major events concerning the world’s religious, economic and [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 6, 2011 in Current Issues, Features, Roman Catholicism
The following by Dr. Gary Gilley, pastor of Southern View Chapel, is republished at Apprising Ministries with permission: Rome Sweet Rome by Scott & Kimberly Hahn Born Fundamentalist, Born Again Catholic, by David B. Currie In recent years we have witnessed a softening perspective of the vast disagreement between the Roman Catholic Church and evangelicalism. [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 5, 2011 in Current Issues, Features, Roman Catholicism
Despite sagging funding Apprising Ministries continues covering the falling away of the largely pretending to be Protestant evangelical community. As I just reminded you again in “Inward Journey” Taught By Mystics Like Richard Foster Is Divination, a major reason why is the infestation of Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) ala gurus Dallas Willard and his spiritual twin Living Spiritual Teacher [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 19, 2011 in Current Issues, Features, Roman Catholicism
Apprising Ministries continues on, for now, exposing spiritual monkey-business and warns of growing syncretism and apostasy. You really need to come to grips with the fact that the false philosophy of postmodernism has not only warped the world, it’s also deeper into the mainstream of spiritually spineless evanjellyfish than you know. Simply put; with this [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 21, 2011 in Current Issues, Features, Roman Catholicism
You just couldn’t make up many of the bizarre goings on that Apprising Ministries brings you as spiritual darkness spreads across the wider visible church. With this fresh, we come to guardian.co.uk‘s reporter in Rome, Tom Kington, and his story Tuscan friars ask God to deliver diarrhoea for basilica bible thief. Uh, it seems some Roman Catholic Franciscan monks [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 30, 2011 in Current Issues, Features, Roman Catholicism
By Dr. Bill Jackson Christians Evangelizing Catholics “Insistence on the visibility of the Church has been a standard feature of Roman Catholic ecclesiology from the late Middle Ages until the middle of the present century.” – Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J., Models of the Church. What is the significance of these dates? The “late Middle Ages” [...]