By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 11, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren, Roman Catholicism, Southern Baptist Convention
Here at the online apologetics and discernment Apprising Ministries, I’ve been following the aftermath of the dubious decision made by Dr. John Piper to have Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren as the keynote speaker at the recently concluded DG 2010 conference Think: The Life of the Mind & the Love of God. For some reason, […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 31, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Roman Catholicism
What is the whole papacy but a beautiful false front and a deceptively glittering holiness under which the wretched devil lies in hiding? The devil always desires to imitate God in this way. He cannot bear to observe God speaking. If he cannot prevent it or hinder God’s Word by force, he opposes it with […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 10, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Roman Catholicism
And then many will fall away and betray one another and hate one another. And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray. 12 And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold. But the one who endures to the end will be saved. (Matthew 24:10-13) Thanks, But No Thanks; I’ll Just […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 10, 2010 in Current Issues, Features, Roman Catholicism
By Mike Gendron of Proclaiming the Gospel Ministries Many former Catholics have described their experience of going to weekly Mass as a prison sentence, something they had to do in order to avoid the penalty of a serious sin. Others remember it as a mindless ritual of standing, sitting, kneeling and reciting as the priest […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 4, 2010 in Current Issues, Features, Roman Catholicism
By Apprising Ministries correspondent Christine Pack of Sola Sisters Author Anne Rice, best known for her Vampire Lestat chronicles which were popular in the 90s, rather famously “converted” to Christianity in 1998…which she has now publicly rejected. But did she really convert in the first place? The truth is that Anne Rice grew up […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 13, 2010 in Quotes, Roman Catholicism
What is the whole papacy but a beautiful false front and a deceptively glittering holiness under which the wretched devil lies in hiding? The devil always desires to imitate God in this way. He cannot bear to observe God speaking. If he cannot prevent it or hinder God’s Word by force, he opposes it with […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 11, 2009 in Current Issues, Roman Catholicism
I’ve mentioned a few times now at Apprising Ministries that I am a former Roman Catholic that, through absolutely no effort of my own, God mercifully delivered from the religious bondage of the Church of Rome into the glorious liberty of the sons of God, by His grace alone, through faith alone, in the finished work on […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 29, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Roman Catholicism
It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery. (Galatians 5:1, NASB) The Oddity Of Protestants No Longer Protesting Apprising Ministries has documented for you the fact that there have been no changes in the dogmas of apostate Roman Catholicism concerning soteriology […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 27, 2009 in Roman Catholicism
Now, while in the process of writing this blog entry, I was directed to a comment left by Frank Beckwith, revert to Rome, criticizing John MacArthur’s statement on [The Manhattan Declaration]… But given that Dr. Beckwith has become exceptionally active promoting and defending Romanism on the web over the past few months, I think it proper to […]