By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 12, 2012 in Current Issues, Features | 0 Comments
The following is originally published by Herescope and is republished here with permission: Part 1:Getting “High” on God By Pastor Larry DeBruyn “And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 2, 2012 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features | 0 Comments
One of the trends I’ve noticed over the past couple of years here at Apprising Ministries is how far the effects of the ill-fated Church Growth Movement have spread. I’ve told you before that mainstream evangelicalism is only just beginning to pay a heavy price for its foolish embrace of the sinfully ecumenical Emergent Church. Now there’s a […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 30, 2012 in Current Issues, Features | 0 Comments
The following is originally published by Herescope and is republished here with permission: COSMS, CODES, AND CRYPTOLOGIES PART 1: Crossing the Boundaries of Reality and Scripture “For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ…” (2 Peter 1:16) By Gaylene Goodroad […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 17, 2012 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features | Comments Off on PANENTHEISM! WHAT IS THAT?
By Dr. Orrel Steincamp, republished with permission Have you ever heard of “panentheism”? It sounds a lot like pantheism but there are those two additional letters “en” inserted after “pan.” The word broken into its constitute parts is pan=all, en= in, and theos= God. Panentheism is the belief the universe is contained within God and […]
By Sarah H. Leslie on Mar 30, 2012 in Current Issues, Features | Comments Off on THE PARANORMAL BIBLE
Coming Soon! The Paranormal Bible By Casper! AUTHORIZED TELEPATHIC VERSION 1.0 With an Introduction by Rod Serling ***** A Five Star WOO Rating by the Paranormal Energy Group For millennia alchemists have attempted to gain power over the elements and transform physical reality into immortality. Religious leaders and Hermetic scholars have long recognized that there […]
By Warren Smith-Sarah H. Leslie-Ken Silva on Mar 19, 2012 in Current Issues, Definitions, Features | Comments Off on EVANGULLIBLE
EVANGULLIBLE [ee-van guhl’-uh-buhl] [Evangelical: 1525–35; < Late Latin evangelicus (< Late Greek euangelikós; see evangel1 , -ic) + -al1] [Gullible: easily taken in or tricked; earlier cullibility, probably connected to gull, a cant term for “dupe, sucker.” It is perhaps from the bird (see gull (n.), or from verb gull “to swallow” (1530, from O.Fr. goule, […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 17, 2012 in Current Issues, Features | Comments Off on ABOUT FRANK VIOLA: A REAL JERK
By Christian Research Network correspondent Mike Ratilff of Possessing the Treasure This is a repost of an original article on Possessing the Treasure 12 Χάριν ἔχω τῷ ἐνδυναμώσαντί με Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ τῷ κυρίῳ ἡμῶν, ὅτι πιστόν με ἡγήσατο θέμενος εἰς διακονίαν 13 τὸ πρότερον ὄντα βλάσφημον καὶ διώκτην καὶ ὑβριστήν, ἀλλὰ ἠλεήθην, ὅτι ἀγνοῶν ἐποίησα ἐν ἀπιστίᾳ· 14 […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 1, 2011 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features | Comments Off on THE ORGANIC CHURCH—DOCTRINES OF DEMONS AND OF MEN: PART 3
By Apprising Ministries special correspondent John Beardsley of The Beardsley Ministry Many call the days we live the last days, awaiting the rapture to snatch them away from this world with all the trials and tribulations but seem to forget we are also warned of an apostasy that must come first – so often we […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 30, 2011 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features | Comments Off on CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY AND RECOMMENDED READING FROM FRANK VIOLA
Syncretism slithers deeper into spiritually spineless evanjellyfish every day and Apprising Ministries continues to point it out for you wherever we find it. Dominionism is fast becoming a hot topic and it’s tied to the idea of “changing the world” and supposedly bringing ” God’s dream for the world” to fruition. The key is to […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 30, 2011 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Spiritual Formation | Comments Off on THE THIRD WAY
See also: LEONARD SWEET, FRANK VIOLA, AND THE THIRD WAY RICHARD ROHR AND THE EMERGING CHURCH AS THE THIRD WAY LIBERALISM 2.0 THE NEW PROGRESSIVE CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY