Category: Emergence Christianity
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 29, 2011 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be competent, equipped for every good work. (2 Timothy 3:16-17) Contemplative Mysticism Cripples Biblical Faith Apprising Ministries continues documenting the growing influence of Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) right into the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 24, 2011 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
By Apprising Ministries correspondent Christine Pack of Sola Sisters In a recent article, popular emergent author Donald Miller (Blue Like Jazz) pondered who feels closer to God: liberal theologians or conservative theologians. In this article, Miller also deconstructed the personality traits of both liberals v. conservatives through the use of something known as the Enneagram […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 20, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian", Jay Bakker
As part of our online apologetics and discernment labors Apprising Ministries been documenting the New Downgrade within evangelicalism, the root of which roughly begins with the charismatic revival as it spreads through the Jesus People/Movement circa early 1970′s out into various denominations and into what became the Fuller Theological Seminary School of World Mission.[1] This is […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 18, 2011 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
The judgmentless gospel may be the most attractive counterfeit being proposed oday. The entire tide of our culture is turning toward a type of pluralism that would deny the reality (and even the need) for divine justice. Here are some ways we can keep from falling for these forms of the judgmentless gospel: Recognize the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 17, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Hear the word that the Lord speaks to you, O house of Israel. Thus says the Lord: “Learn not the way of the nations, nor be dismayed at the signs of the heavens because the nations are dismayed at them, for the customs of the peoples are vanity. A tree from the forest is cut […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 17, 2011 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons. (1 Corinthians 10:20) If You Love Someone You’ll Tell Them The Truth Apprising Ministries has been warning you about the judgments coming upon the church visible now that mainstream evangelicalism […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 16, 2011 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Our Lord clearly expects His true disciples to be able to spot spiritual imposters and wolves in sheep’s clothing—especially those who are purveyors of deadly false doctrines. Rob Bell certainly fits that category. He relentlessly casts doubt on the authority and reliability of Scripture. He denies the Bible’s perspicuity, disavows its hard truths, and ridicules […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 16, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
I bow down toward your holy temple and give thanks to your name for your steadfast love and your faithfulness, for you have exalted above all things your name and your word… Thus says the Lord: “Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 14, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ. (Colossians 2:8) A Wonderland Of Humpty Dumpty Language Apprising Ministries is an online apologetics and discernment work specializing in analyzing current trends in the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 13, 2011 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
The online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries has been showing you that Progessive Christianity aka liberal theology will be showing up more and more around the circles of the sinfully ecumenical neo-liberal cult of the Emergent Church aka the Emerging Church with it’s so-called “big tent” Emergence Christianity. It’s a reimagined and postmodern form of Progressive […]
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