By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 19, 2009 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Spiritual Formation | Comments Off on CHRISTIANITY TODAY PROMOTING CLASSIC CONTEMPLATIVE BOOK
DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA! With a link right off their main website this morning to its Christian History site Christianity Today, “a magazine of evangelical conviction,” continues leading the way back into the dark ages as they present their to a classic of corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism The Cloud of Unknowing, which begins: Sometime during the last half of the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 9, 2009 in Current Issues, Spiritual Formation | Comments Off on MORE ON MATT CHANDLER
In Confusion Concerning Calvinist Spirituality? — a prior Apprising Ministries post concerning Matt Chandler, pastor of Village Church — we pointed to a confusing promotion of Counter-Reformation spirituality ala Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the spiritual Gestapo unit the Jesuits, at Chandler’s church’s website. In the section Recommended Books of The Village Church, “that have challenged and helped us as a staff […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 9, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Rob Bell | Comments Off on PHYLLIS TICKLE PREACHES FOR MARS HILL BIBLE CHURCH AND ROB BELL
DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA! For those who guide this people are leading them astray; And those who are guided by them are brought to confusion. (Isaiah 9:16, NASB) If A Little Leaven Ruins The Whole; What About A Whole Movement That’s Full Of It? Apprising Ministries first mentioned this in Rob Bell, Peter Rollins And […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 6, 2009 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Devotions, Features, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation | Comments Off on LATEST FAD OF REPACKAGED "CHRISTIAN" MYSTICISM AKA "SPIRITUAL FORMATION" FINDS ROOT IN CHURCH GROWTH MOVEMENT
The LORD enters into judgment against the elders and leaders of his people. (Isaiah 3:14) Reject Contemplative Spirituality And Instead Pray According To The Will Of God What will follow is illustrated e.g. by the Apprising Ministries piece Ravi Zacharias International Ministries Contunues Asserting Henri Nouwen A Great Christian Saint. Since I happen to be one whom God, […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 6, 2009 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Spiritual Formation | Comments Off on GARY GILLEY REVIEWS: THE ATTENTIVE LIFE, DISCERNING GOD’S PRESENCE IN ALL THINGS BY LEIGHTON FORD
The following by Dr. Gary Gilley, pastor of Southern View Chapel, is republished with permission: I am often asked my opinion about particular Christian leaders. I am hesitant to answer such questions because “the times [and people] they are a-changing.” A case in point is Leighton Ford. Ford is best known as an effective evangelist who has been closely associated […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 30, 2009 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Devotions, Spiritual Formation | Comments Off on HOW WOULD YOU KNOW BETH MOORE?
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) But Then How Would You Know Which Is True? At the 2:18 mark of the commercial below Beth Moore reads the text above and then says dramatically, “Several years ago Christ began to place […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 30, 2009 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Southern Baptist Convention | Comments Off on PICK YOUR SWORD OF THE SPIRIT BACK UP!
DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA! For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly. But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 10, 2009 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism | Comments Off on ANTIBIBLICAL CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY/MYSTICISM CANNOT BE MADE SAFE
Let us be perfectly clear here at Apprising Ministries; the idea of a deeper relationship with God is not wrong in and of itself. But it is the Lord Who draws us; we cannot “work” it up. And as I brought out in The Terminology Trap of “Spiritual Formation” what’s causing such a huge problem in the Body […]
By AM on Nov 21, 2008 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Features, Radio Appearances, Rob Bell | Comments Off on CROSSTALK RADIO: KEN SILVA ON ROB BELL AND WARNINGS ABOUT THE EMERGENT CHURCH MOVEMENT
In his sermon I will say it again, and again, and again, Sunday November 16, 2008, Emergent Church icon Rob Bell shares a common mantra of those neo-Gnostics involved in the Contemplative/Centering Prayer of Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism. For them it is the mystics in various religious traditions who are the great enlightened ones. Bell says: It’s interesting how […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 19, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Southern Baptist Convention | Comments Off on BETH MOORE AND LIFEWAY (SBC) HEAD DEEPER STILL INTO DECEPTION
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) How Would You Know If You Were Being Taught False Doctrine? At the Lifeway: Biblical Solutions for Life website of the Southern Baptist Convention we read: Together again […]