By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 21, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Rick Warren, Southern Baptist Convention
Well, at least Contemplative/Centering Prayer (CCP) isn’t according to Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic “Christian” Roshi Richard Foster: Contemplative Prayer immerses us into the silence of God. How desperately we in the modern world need this wordless baptism… Contemplative Prayer is the one discipline that can free us from our addiction to words. Progress in […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 20, 2008 in Features, Southern Baptist Convention
This is an update and follow-up to the Apprising Ministries piece “From Baptist State Convention of North Carolina (SBC) All the Way to Renovare and Living Spiritual Teacher Richard Foster” originally posted 12/10/2006. Shortly after this article appeared the original links from the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina (BSCNC) website that were used within […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 5, 2008 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Richard Foster, Southern Baptist Convention
Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? (2 Corinthians 6:14-15) Hammering Out The Golden Buddha Of The Mystic Mush God […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 4, 2008 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Southern Baptist Convention
Apprising Ministries is doing all that can be done to try and alert the Body of Christ to growing apostasy within the Southern Baptist Convention. Unfortunately it’s also the nature of the “game” that most will not listen, and especially not the postliberal leadership and the vipers in the Emerging Church who have been busy […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 2, 2008 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Southern Baptist Convention
Following the Lord’s command that “every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses” (see also—Matthew 18:16) in the first part of Something Not Right with Southern Baptist Convention Crossover ’08 I gave you a few solid examples as witnesses for my sincere concern that Gnostic neo-pagan Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) has […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 1, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Southern Baptist Convention
Apprising Ministries continues looking into Contemplative Mysticism In The Southern Baptist Convention. In that previous post I further shared my concerns that corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) developed in the antibiblical traditions of apostate Roman Catholicism has slithered from its den in Hell further into the supposedly evangelical “Protestant” Southern Baptist Convention of which I am […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 30, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Southern Baptist Convention
You have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob. They are full of superstitions from the East; they practice divination like the Philistines and clasp hands with pagans. (Isaiah 2:6) Something Looks Spiritually Rotten In The SBC This is a follow up piece to the Apprising Ministries article Prayer Is News In The Southern Baptist […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 29, 2008 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Emergent Church, Richard Foster, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation
They did not destroy the peoples, as the LORD commanded them, but they mixed with the nations and learned to do as they did. They served their idols, which became a snare to them. (Psalm 106:34-36) CSM Was A Core Doctrine Of The Emerging Church We can point to Apprising Ministries articles Beth Moore The Mystic and Alabama Baptist Convention (SBC) Encourages You […]