By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 13, 2010 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren
By Apprising Ministries correspondent Christine Pack of Sola Sisters Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church website features two books by Quaker and mystic Richard Foster, today’s leading proponent of something known as “Spiritual Disciplines” or “Spiritual Formation.” Also promoted are several other books focusing on the Spiritual Disciplines, which teach a practice that is nothing more than a “Christianized” version […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 10, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren
This online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries has been among those who’ve been reporting on an ill-advised decision by Dr. John Piper to bring Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren into the Desiring God Conference 2010 as the keynote speaker. Unfortunately, it got even worse when Dr. Piper defended his decision; and so, Warrengate is still slowly simmering: At root I think [Rick Warren] is theological […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 28, 2010 in Current Issues, Rick Warren
Apprising Ministries thinks we need to be praying for Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren. He just tweeted: The most exhausting activity is PRETENDING. Faking is fatiguing. Duplicity creates anxiety.Wearing a mask wears you out. (Online source) Zowie; then Rick Warren really must be well past exhaustion by now!?! See also: DR. MICHAEL HORTON ON THE CHAMELEON-LIKE RICK WARREN CHRISTIANS CHALLENGED […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 23, 2010 in Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren
Apprising Ministries points you now to something Christian apologist and missionary Sandy Simpson of the fine online apologetics and discernment ministry Deception in the Church was covering back in 2004. As I have said before, Simpson was one of the first to assist me when I first came on the Net in late August of 2005, when […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 10, 2010 in Rick Warren
See also: RICK WARREN GOSPEL TROUBLE IF YOU’VE BEEN HURT BY RICK WARREN RICK WARREN ON INTERFAITH PANEL IS THIS DOCTRINAL AND SOUND DR. JOHN PIPER? WARRENGATE, RICK WARREN AND THE SYNAGOGUE 3000 LEADERSHIP NETWORK RICK WARREN AND PURPOSE DRIVEN ROMAN CATHOLICS THE INADEQUATE GOSPEL OF RICK WARREN
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 5, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren
This online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries has been among those who’ve been reporting on an ill-advised decision by Dr. John Piper to bring Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren into the Desiring God Conference 2010 as the keynote speaker. Unfortunately, it got even worse when Dr. Piper defended his decision; and so, Warrengate is now slowly simmering: At root I think [Rick Warren] is […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 4, 2010 in Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren
Yesterday Skye Jethani, “managing editor of Leadership journal,” tells us about an upcoming conversation concerning ”The Future of the Global Church.” He begins: the church faces a new age of globalization, and a demographic shift toward the Southern hemisphere, what will it mean for the role of American churches and leaders? That subject and many others will be the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 3, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren
This online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries has been among those who’ve been reporting on an ill-advised decision by Dr. John Piper to bring Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren into the Desiring God Conference 2010 as the keynote speaker. And so, Warrengate is now slowly simmering because, unfortunately, it got even worse when Dr. Piper defended his decision: At root I think [Rick […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 1, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren
From the very beginning the online apologetics and discernment ministry Apprising Ministries has been covering the slowly simmering Warrengate opened Dr. John Piper has made the ill-advised decision to bring Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren into the Desiring God Conference 2010 as the keynote speaker. Today I was made aware of a very good commentary on this sad subject by Todd Friel at […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 26, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren
Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren, whom Dr. John Piper has made the ill-advised decision to bring into the Desiring God Conference 2010 as the keynote speaker, participated the other day in an interfaith panel held at Temple Sinai in Los Angeles. Talk show host Tavis Smiley was host for “Meet the Faith”, which featured an interfaith panel comprising a Muslim Najeeba Syeed-Miller, Reverend Cecil “Chip” […]