Category: Rick Warren
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 1, 2008 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Emergent Church, Features, Richard Foster, Rick Warren, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation
“…take one or two others along, so that ‘every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.’ ” (Matthew 18:16) The Murky Mystic Shadows Of Spurious Spiritual Formation Looms Closer To You In a court of law it is a common occurrence for trial lawyers to bring in expert witnesses from specialized fields […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 31, 2008 in Brian McLaren, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Emergent Church, Features, Marcus Borg, Richard Foster, Rick Warren, Rob Bell, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation
At Apprising Ministries you will likely hear me talking more about the new spirituality which has now slithered its way deep into postevangelicalism from its den in the Emerging Church. The fact is this neopagan Gnostic spirituality is most pointedly on display in the misguided mysticism of the Emergent Church with its reimagined postliberal theology. […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 30, 2008 in Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Emergent Church, Erwin McManus, Features, Joel Osteen, John Hagee, Marcus Borg, Richard Foster, Rick Warren, Rob Bell, Roman Catholicism, Southern Baptist Convention, T.D. Jakes, Theology, Word Faith
Do not quench the Spirit; do not despise prophetic utterances. But examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good. (1 Thessalonians 5:21, NASB) Can You Hear The Voice of The Spirit? Apprising Ministries is pleased to bring you the following godly and prophetic insight from James Montgomery Boice and Philip Graham Ryken. Herein […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 25, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren, Southern Baptist Convention
As I have said before here at Apprising Ministries, without a doubt these are strange times we are living in. An era where a warped kind of “tolerance” has actually replaced the type of love that our Lord was so often speaking about. This alleged “postmodern” age is really just a mask for relativism, along […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 20, 2008 in Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren
A reader of Apprising Ministries writes to ask for information and materials on refuting Rick Warren and The Purpose Driven Life: Dear Ken, I recently found out that a pastor I know is reading Rick Warren’s nonsense. I know him well enough to know that: A) He is truly saved, and B) He would not […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 17, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Rick Warren, Southern Baptist Convention
For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. (James 1:7-8, ESV) Believing Protestant Reformation Doctrine And That The Church Of Rome Is Christian? In an August 15, 2008 interview by Jake Tapper of ABC News postevangelicalism’s Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 11, 2008 in Current Issues, Rick Warren, Southern Baptist Convention
That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all he does. (James 1:8-9, NASB) Believing Reformation Doctrine And That The Church Of Rome Is Christian? In the Apprising Ministries feature article Rick Warren Says “Great Spiritual Awakening Coming” I brought to your attention that […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 9, 2008 in Rick Warren, Southern Baptist Convention
The semi-pelagian Church Growth Movement that slithered out of Fuller Theological Seminary has by now metastasized its cancer into many different centered on man movements within apostatizing evangelicalism. And one of its most insideous forms is the purpose driven plague as carried by PDL Rick Warren. In an insightful post at Deception in the Church by […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 14, 2008 in Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren, Southern Baptist Convention
In the Foreword of William Webster’s very helpful 1996 book The Matthew 16 Controversy Dr. Tom Nettles, Professor of Historical Theology at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, writes: Recent years have seen an increase in serious attempts at achieving some reapprochement between Roman Catholics and Protestants…the current rapid breakdown in public morality has served as a […]
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