By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 22, 2012 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features | Comments Off on THE VIRGIN BIRTH OF CHRIST IS CRITICAL BECAUSE OF ORIGINAL SIN
Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame, resolved to divorce her quietly. But […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 17, 2012 in Current Issues, Features | Comments Off on WORSHIP THE GOD IN SCRIPTURE
I bow down toward your holy temple and give thanks to your name for your steadfast love and your faithfulness, for you have exalted above all things your name and your word… Thus says the Lord: “Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 6, 2012 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Roman Catholicism | Comments Off on ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, ISLAM, AND GOD
I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 29, 2012 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Spiritual Formation | Comments Off on DR. GARY GILLEY ON SPIRITUAL FORMATION
The following by Dr. Gary Gilley, pastor of Southern View Chapel, is republished at Apprising Ministries with permission: (February/March 2012 – Volume 18, Issue 1) Almost everyone on the cutting edge of Christianity is talking about spiritual formation. From books to magazine articles to sermons to seminary courses, spiritual formation is a hot topic. What […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 27, 2012 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Southern Baptist Convention | Comments Off on WOMEN PASTORS, PRISCILLA SHIRER, AND THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION
Apprising Ministries reminds you that while the issue of women being ordained elders and pastors has been debated within some of evangelicalism, up until now it’s been essentially contained within the more charismatic and Pentecostal fringes. The more mainstream denominations, e.g. the Southern Baptist Convention, have for the most part still maintained the proper Biblical position that […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 23, 2012 in Current Issues, Features | Comments Off on THE SOCIAL GOSPEL, YESTERDAY AND TODAY—PART 2
The following by Dr. Gary Gilley, pastor of Southern View Chapel, is republished at Apprising Ministries with permission: (December 2011/January 2012 – Volume 17, Issue 6) In the first part of this study, we examined together the history of the social gospel as it presented itself in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 23, 2012 in Current Issues, Features | Comments Off on THE SOCIAL GOSPEL, YESTERDAY AND TODAY—PART 1
The following by Dr. Gary Gilley, pastor of Southern View Chapel, is republished at Apprising Ministries with permission: (October/November 2011 – Volume 17, Issue 5) One of the important issues which the church has always had to address is that of its role in society. In the Old Testament, the Lord chose Abraham to be […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 21, 2012 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features | Comments Off on LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE 2012 WITH PROTHOLIC PETER SCAZZERO
Apprising Ministries wants you to know that Peter Scazzero, a leading Protholic guru—not really Protestant, not yet Roman Catholic—is set to spread further his corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM). Keep in mind that Scazzero is a perfect illustration of the spiritual damage done by CSM gurus SBC minister Dallas Willard and his spiritual twin Living Spiritual […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 19, 2012 in AM Missives, Beth Moore, Current Issues, Features, Southern Baptist Convention | Comments Off on BETH MOORE AND HER VISION OF A ROMAN CATHOLIC DENOMINATION
Beyond question the dubious duo of Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster and his spiritual twin, Southern Baptist minister Dallas Willard, are most responsible for the growing infestation within evangelicalism of critical thinking skills-numbing corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM). For at least the past six years now online apologetics and discernment ministries like Herescope, […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 16, 2012 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features | Comments Off on PETER SCAZZERO INTRODUCING ENNEAGRAMS INTO MAINSTREAM EVANGELICALISM
In earlier Apprising Ministries articles like and Christian Soldiers Standing Up For Jesus? and the semi-satirical Recipe For Spiritual Disaster I’ve been trying to bring to your attention how a Rodney King theology of, “Can’t we all just get along” is serving to cripple the witness of the church visible. A major factor contributing to this […]