By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 9, 2008 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Quotes, Richard Foster
Contemplative Prayer immerses us into the silence of God. How desperately we in the modern world need this wordless baptism… Contemplative Prayer is the one discipline that can free us from our addiction to words. Progress in intimacy with God means progress toward silence… It is recreating silence to which we are called in Contemplative […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 5, 2008 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Richard Foster, Southern Baptist Convention
Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? (2 Corinthians 6:14-15) Hammering Out The Golden Buddha Of The Mystic Mush God […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 4, 2008 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Southern Baptist Convention
Apprising Ministries is doing all that can be done to try and alert the Body of Christ to growing apostasy within the Southern Baptist Convention. Unfortunately it’s also the nature of the “game” that most will not listen, and especially not the postliberal leadership and the vipers in the Emerging Church who have been busy […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 2, 2008 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Spiritual Formation
Apprising Ministries wants you to know that: F[ather] Thomas Ryan,CSP, [is] a catholic priest and certified Kripalu yoga teacher,coordinates ecumenical and inter-religious relations for the paulist community in the U.S. and Canada. His nine books include Reclaiming the Body in Christian Spirituality; The Sacred Art of Fasting; Four Steps to Spiritual Freedom; Prayer of Heart […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 2, 2008 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Southern Baptist Convention
Following the Lord’s command that “every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses” (see also—Matthew 18:16) in the first part of Something Not Right with Southern Baptist Convention Crossover ’08 I gave you a few solid examples as witnesses for my sincere concern that Gnostic neo-pagan Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) has […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 29, 2008 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Emergent Church, Richard Foster, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation
They did not destroy the peoples, as the LORD commanded them, but they mixed with the nations and learned to do as they did. They served their idols, which became a snare to them. (Psalm 106:34-36) CSM Was A Core Doctrine Of The Emerging Church We can point to Apprising Ministries articles Beth Moore The Mystic and Alabama Baptist Convention (SBC) Encourages You […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 26, 2008 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Dallas Willard, Richard Foster, Spiritual Formation
“Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” (Matthew 11:28-30, NASB) Dismantling Dallas […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 17, 2008 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a […]