Category: Emergence Christianity
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 16, 2010 in AM Missives, Apologetics, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Theology
1. The warning against false teachers Christ then said, “Beware of false prophets” (Matthew 7:15). For every true prophet calling people to the narrow way, are a multiplicity of false prophets calling people to the broad way that leads to destruction. Christ’s warning [about false teachers] was not new. Deuteronomy 13:1-5 documents the presence of […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 15, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 15, 2010 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Jay Bakker
Her prophets are fickle, treacherous men; her priests profane what is holy; they do violence to the law. (Zephaniah 3:4) Jay Bakker Does A Little Preaching Via Twitter Apprising Ministries has told you e.g. in Jay Bakker Reflects The Sad Condition Of The Visible Church that gay-affirming “pastor” Jay Bakker heads up a rather rapscallion, and largely […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 13, 2010 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed. (Galatians 1:9) How Is A Different Gospel Now Considered The Same Gospel? Apprising Ministries has long been covering the sinfully ecumenical neo-liberal cult of the Emerging Church—a […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 13, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Leonard Sweet
…always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth. (2 Timothy 3:7) Sweet Hegelian Dialetic Double-Speak In Apprising Ministries articles like Leonard Sweet, Frank Viola, And The Third Way and Leonard Sweet, Frank Viola, And Mystic Meister Eckhart I’ve shown that the man-centered semi-pelagian theology of Leonard Sweet—beyond question a leading theologian within […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 12, 2010 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) There’s No Big Tent By The Narrow Gate Apprising Ministries told you in posts such as Pretending That Big Tent Christianity Is The Church and […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 9, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Jay Bakker
If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness, he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions, and […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 9, 2010 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Oh how I love your law! It is my meditation all the day. Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies, for it is ever with me. I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation. I understand more than the aged, for I keep your precepts. I hold back my feet from every evil […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 8, 2010 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
“Do two walk together, unless they have agreed to meet?” (Amos 3:3) Big Tent Progessive Revolution In the articles Big Tent Christianity Pretending To Be The Church and Pretending That Big Tent Christianity Is The Church, which serves as the second part, Apprising Ministries has taken you through a short report entitled Big Tent conference in Raleigh hopes to […]
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