Category: Emergence Christianity
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 14, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian"
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! (Isaiah 5:20) And You Can Thank The Emerging Church Over the past couple of years Apprising Ministries has been covering gay-affirming “pastor” Jay Bakker of a sad church social club […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 12, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
“But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked; you grew fat, stout, and sleek; then he forsook God who made him and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation. They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods; with abominations they provoked him to anger. They sacrificed to demons that were no gods, to gods they had never known, […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 8, 2011 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord. And behold, at the entrance of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs to the temple of the Lord, and their faces toward the east, worshiping the sun toward the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 7, 2011 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Spiritual Formation
“These are the statutes and rules that you shall be careful to do in the land that the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess, all the days that you live on the earth.” “You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served their gods, […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 6, 2011 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Spiritual Formation
And the Lord said to me: “The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I did not send them, nor did I command them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a lying vision, worthless divination, and the deceit of their own minds.” (Jeremiah 14:14) One River That Is God But Many Streams […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 5, 2011 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Rick Warren, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation
…they are full of things from the east and of fortune-tellers like the Philistines, and they strike hands with the children of foreigners. (Isaiah 2:6) Circle Up The Wagons We’re Heading Home To Rome Evangelicals are quick to praise Charles Spurgeon, who stood tall for the purity of God’s Gospel during the Downgrade Controversy; this […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 3, 2011 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
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 or message […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 3, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
He must hold firm to the trustworthy word as taught, so that he may be able to give instruction in sound doctrine and also to rebuke those who contradict it. For there are many who are insubordinate, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision party. (Titus 1:9-10) You Need To Know This Is Not A […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 3, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
The Lord be praised that He has seen fit to open the door for Apprising Ministries to have become one of the leading voices against the sinfully ecumenical Emergent Church aka the Emerging Church, a neo-liberal cult now operating within mainstream evangelicalism. Its primary legacy is that through its core doctrine of corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM), masquerading as spurious Spiritual Formation ala Living Spiritual Teacher and […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 1, 2011 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
The one who states his case first seems right, until the other comes and examines him. (Proverbs 18:17) Things Aren’t As Simple As They May Appear Apprising Ministries has been among those pioneering the mission filed of online apologetics and discernment ministry and it’s a well known fact that a major focus of mine has been the sinfully ecumenical neo-liberal cult […]
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