Category: Youth Ministry
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 16, 2010 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Features, Richard Foster, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation, Youth Ministry
Apprising Ministries has long been warning that apostatizing pretending to be Protestant evangelicalism is paying a heavy price for its foolish embrace of the sinfully ecumenial Emerging Church aka Emergent Church—which morphed into Emergence Christianity (EC). The EC was a Trojan Horse that unloaded corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) ala Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster—and his spiritual twin Dallas Willard—within [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 15, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation, Youth Ministry
Apprising Ministries has already told you that Leadership Network’s propped up Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren has actually been been up to spiritual monk-ee business for years now in pushing the door open for corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) ala Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster—and his spiritual twin Dallas Willard—within the mainstream of evangelicalism. Leadership Network (LN) has long pushed the [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 13, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Youth Ministry
they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs. They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them. (Psalm 106:35-36)
All Religions Do Not Lead To God
While pointing us to John Hendryx from the fine Reformation Theology and his comments concerning a “recent Time Magazine article on Christians and tolerance” a while back Ingrid Schlueter, host of the Crosstalk [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 12, 2010 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation, Youth Ministry
HT: Pirate Christian Radio
See also:
CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY CATALYST PETER SCAZZERO
CALVINIST CONTEMPLATIVE/CENTERING PRAYER?
DONALD WHITNEY AND EVANGELICAL CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY/MYSTICISM
RICHARD FOSTER’S LEGACY ENDURES: CHRISTIAN LEADERS HELP TO MAKE IT SO
THE TERMINOLOGY TRAP OF “SPIRITUAL FORMATION”
CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY OF RICHARD FOSTER ROOTED IN THE EASTERN DESERT AND THOMAS MERTON
PASTOR KEN SILVA—THE HIJACKING OF EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANITY
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 8, 2010 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Tony Jones, Youth Ministry
In his post An Open Letter to YouthWorks Tony Jones, heretical “theologian in residence” at the emerging church Solomon’s Porch, gives a bit of history concerning YS:
Let me join the chorus of voices welcoming Tic Long back to Youth Specialties, now part of the YouthWorks world. Tic was nothing but gracious to me over my ten years of [...]
By AM on Jan 8, 2010 in Current Issues, Features, Southern Baptist Convention, Youth Ministry
By Chris Rosebrough, Christian Research Network correspondent and host of Fighting for the Faith on Pirate Christian Radio
The Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is an absolutely terrifying pathogen. It’s almost as if this virus studied the human body and its defenses in order to find the achilles heel. And it succeeded. HIV the virus that causes AIDS doesn’t [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 7, 2010 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Rob Bell, Youth Ministry
The above was designed as a little reductio ad absurdum by Christian apologist Chris Rosebrough, host of the Fighting for the Faith (FftF) program, which can be heard on the Pirate Christian Radio network at 6PM Eastern time.
With this all in mind, below Apprising Ministries is pleased to point you to an excellent deconstruction of the warped and toxic teaching [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 31, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Doug Pagitt, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Youth Ministry
This online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries has been covering the egregiously ecumenical Emerging Church aka Emergent Church that morphed into Emergence Christianity (EC)—and which is now a cult of a postliberalism firmly within mainstream evangelicalism—for some five years now. As you may know the EC is sometimes also called “the conversation”; however, any [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 22, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian", Tony Jones, Youth Ministry
“Be careful,” Jesus said to them. “Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” (Matthew 16:6)
Someone Who Is Sincere, Can Be Sincerely Wrong
Apprising Ministries brought the video below to your attention yesterday in Andrew Marin Adrift With Tony Jones? where I also pointed out that Marin has the reputation of taking an [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 19, 2009 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Features, Richard Foster, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation, Youth Ministry
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)
Right Back To The Dark Ages
Following a trail that was initially cut by the online apologetics and discernment ministry Lighthouse Trails Research years before Apprising Ministries has been covering [...]
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