Category: Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 22, 2010 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Radio Appearances, Spiritual Formation
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 […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 19, 2010 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Erwin McManus, Features, Jay Bakker, Leonard Sweet, Marcus Borg, Richard Foster, Rick Warren, Rob Bell, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation
This online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries has been blessed of Jesus to be used as one of His “go-to” ministries in the area of the ne0-Gnostic corruption called Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM), which is now pandemic within mainstream evangelicalism through its foolish embrace of the sinfully ecumenical neo-liberal cult of the Emerging Church aka Emergent Church with its quasi-universalism in a […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 15, 2010 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features
They would not listen, but were stubborn, as their fathers had been, who did not believe in the Lord their God. They despised his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after false idols and became false, and they followed the nations that […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 14, 2010 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Spiritual Formation
Apprising Ministries brings to your attention an article by Brett McCracken called The Perils of ‘Wannabe Cool’ Christianity, which appeared online yesterday at The Wall Street Journal. If you didn’t know, the title of this piece is a play off the title of McCracken’s just published book Hipster Christianity: Where Church and Cool Collide. His book bio tells us that his […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 13, 2010 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Marcus Borg, Spiritual Formation
The online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries has told you 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 has grown into a full-blown neo-liberal cult operating within its walls; and what we’re now dealing with is an upgraded Emerging Church 2.0 complete with its new version […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 11, 2010 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Spiritual Formation
Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons. (1 Timothy 4:1) Demons Do Have Doctrines and One Of Them Is So-Called Great “Human Potential” As an example of what I mean in the title of this semi-reductio Apprising Ministries piece, here’s […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 4, 2010 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Southern Baptist Convention
Free and warm reception into the divine favor is the strongest of all motives in leading a man to seek conformity to Him who has thus freely forgiven him all trespasses… [But t]he tendency of the present day is to underestimate sin and to misunderstand its nature. From the Cross of Christ men strike out […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 3, 2010 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Word Faith
The 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 at […]
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