By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 30, 2008 in Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church | Comments Off on WHO IS PHYLLIS TICKLE?
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths. (2 Timothy 4:3-4, NASB) Phyllis, Will You Please Tickle Our Ears… […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 25, 2008 in AM Missives, Devotions | Comments Off on THE “GO” OF GOD COMES ONLY THROUGH A BORN AGAIN RELATIONSHIP TO HIM THROUGH JESUS CHRIST AND NOT MYSTICISM
But if I say, “I will not remember Him, Or speak anymore in His name,” Then in my heart it becomes like a burning fire, Shut up in my bones; And I am weary of holding it in, And I cannot endure it. (Jeremiah 20:9) Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism Leads To Reimagined Neo-Gnostic Asceticism The original Cult of Liberal […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 21, 2008 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Spiritual Formation | Comments Off on MEDITATING ON CONTEMPLATIVE/CENTERING PRAYER (PART 2)
At this point as we are Meditating On Contemplative/Centering Prayer I am going to shift gears a bit and begin to take a closer look at why it is we’re told we must practice the so-called “Christian” meditation of Contemplative/Centering Prayer (CCP)—that actually flowered in the antibiblical monastic traditions of apostate Roman Catholicism and which is central to the theology of […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 21, 2008 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism | Comments Off on THE EMERGENT "ONE"
Through the Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism currently infesting the Christian community inherent in The Ecumenical Church Of Deceit (ECoD) of postevangelicalism today we are seeing a new reimagined Gnosticism emerging from mystical encounters allegedly with God. However, as you will come to see this idea of a mystical union of the soul with God which is so common to many […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 17, 2008 in Spiritual Formation | Comments Off on WHO IS RUTH HALEY BARTON?
It’s Late And Do You Know Who’s Instructing Your Pastors? We will begin with this past year’s 2008 Zondervan National Pastors Conference (NPC) where the NPC 2008 website at the time informed us that pastors who attended were encouraged to avail themselves of a “special overnight retreat” where, with the help of “The Transforming Center leaders,” they could […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 10, 2008 in AM Missives, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Rob Bell | Comments Off on ROB BELL MAKES ME ANGRY: A PASTORAL RESPONSE TO VELVET ELVIS
I did not send these prophets, yet they have run with their message; I did not speak to them, yet they have prophesied. But if they had stood in My Council, they would have proclaimed My Words to My people and would have turned them from their evil ways and from their evil deeds. (Jeremiah […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 5, 2008 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism | Comments Off on MANTRA MEDITATION FOR CHRISTIANS
And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. (2 Thessalonians 2:10-12, KJV) Modernism To PostModernism—Liberalism To Postliberalism I begin this article for with an explanation as to why Apprising Ministries has […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 5, 2008 in Current Issues, Features | Comments Off on OPRAH WINFREY SPEAKING AS A CHRISTIAN
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God… And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth… No one has ever seen God; the only God, […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 30, 2008 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Features, Richard Foster, Spiritual Formation | Comments Off on UNDERSTANDING THE NEW SPIRITUALITY: GOD INDWELLS MANKIND
The idea here at Apprising Ministries is to begin helping you understand this New Spirituality as well as giving you a proper Christian perspective of it. Firmly rooted as it is in pagan Eastern religions which lurk beneath the New Age movement, this so-called “Christian” mysticism is right now slithering deep into the evangelical camp […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 14, 2008 in AM Missives, Emergent Church | Comments Off on DOUG PAGITT AND GOD’S HOPES FOR THE WORLD?