Category: Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 28, 2011 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features
Apprising Ministries is doing what we can to help alert you to the 1 Peter 4:17 judgments now coming upon the church visible in large part rooted in the foolish decision by mainstream evangelical leaders to not purge the sinfully ecumenical neo-liberal cult of the Emergent Church aka the Emerging Church from its ranks. [1] In recent articles like Acts […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 25, 2011 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Southern Baptist Convention
Apprising Ministries labors in the still developing mission field of online apologetics and discernment ministry monitoring Intel along the Internet Front, among other things. What many don’t seem to realize is information moves at warp speed on the Net; but at the same time, much of what I show you here each day won’t find its way […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 25, 2011 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Erwin McManus, Features
Question: “What is Lectio Divina?” Answer: LectioDivina is Latin for “divine reading,” “spiritual reading,” or “holy reading” and represents a method of prayer and scriptural reading intended to promote communion with God and to provide special spiritual insights. The principles of lectio divina were expressed around the year A.D. 220 and practiced by Catholic monks, […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 18, 2011 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Southern Baptist Convention
See also: DR. ED YOUNG PROMOTING CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY/MYSTICISM FOR HIS SOUTHERN BAPTISTS IN TOUCH MAGAZINE OF CHARLES STANLEY PROMOTING CONTEMPLATIVE NEW MONASTICISM ALABAMA BAPTIST CONVENTION (SBC) ENCOURAGES YOU TO LEARN LECTIO DIVINA FROM APOSTATE TONY JONES
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 16, 2011 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Southern Baptist Convention
Having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. (2 Timothy 3:5) New Protholic Spirituality Leading online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries has been helping you to survey the battlefield of this spiritual Vietnam of a Truth War. We can see now that the new liberalism of the Church Growth Movement and its […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 15, 2011 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Southern Baptist Convention
People will be lovers of self. (2 Timothy 3:2) Pleasing Themselves Rather Than God Apprising Ministries has been warning about, and documenting, the sad slide of largely pretending to be Protestant evangelicalism into becoming what I’ve referred to as The Ecumenical Church Of Deceit (ECoD); and much of the current sorry state of the church […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 14, 2011 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Southern Baptist Convention
For at least the past six years now online apologetics and discernment ministries like Lighthouse Trails Research, as well as here at Apprising Ministries, have been warning about the sinfully ecumenical [i.e. Reformation repudiating] Emergent Church aka the Emerging Church. Sadly, it’s now grown into a neo-liberal cult operating within evangelicalism infecting it with their new […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 14, 2011 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Southern Baptist Convention
Lately I’ve written pieces like “Good” Experiences Aren’t Necessarily From God and Supernatural Gatherings In The New Downgrade here at this online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries showing the sad slide of largely pretending to be Protestant evangelicalism and the growing falling away of the mainstream visible Christian community. I’ve been documenting all of this for you as well as giving you much […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 12, 2011 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Spiritual Formation
To the teaching and to the testimony! If they will not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn. (Isaiah 8:20) It’s Past Time For Some Straight Up Truth Christian apologist Bob DeWaay has a very accurate saying: Deceptions that do not “work” have a short shelf life. We must also […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 12, 2011 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Rob Bell
See also: ROB BELL ON HIS PRACTICE OF “MILITANT MYSTICISM” THROUGH ROB BELL “THE GREAT ENLIGHTENED ONES” TELL US MAN HAS DIVINE GREATNESS ROB BELL AND SHANE HIPPS TEACHING MYSTICISM
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