By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 16, 2011 in Current Issues, Features | Comments Off on THE EVANGELICAL JESUS
See also: WILL THE REAL JESUS PLEASE STAND UP? CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS STANDING UP FOR JESUS? MARCUS BORG AND CHRISTIANS WHO DON’T BELIEVE IN JESUS
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 15, 2011 in Current Issues, Features | Comments Off on GOD’S GOODNESS = MAN’S WORST PROBLEM
By Apprising Ministries special correspondent Justin Edwards of airō The most terrifying truth of Scripture is that God is good. – Paul Washer My good friend and dear brother Marcus Pittman of Crown Rights Media had the opportunity to interview Paul Washer at the 2011 Sermon Index Conference in Lilburn, Georgia a few weeks ago. […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 24, 2011 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features | Comments Off on OPRAH WINFREY MEDITATES WITH WOMEN AND CHILDREN AT MAHARISHI SCHOOL
Here at Apprising Ministries I’m occasionally asked if Oprah Winfrey is a Christian. The short answer is: We have no real reason whatsoever to believe that she is. Also, this Associated Press piece Winfrey meditates with women during Iowa visit from this weekend gives us more indication as well. Sadly, this type of transcendental meditation—at […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 7, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features | Comments Off on DON'T PREACH YOURSELF; PREACH JESUS
Jesus preached Jesus: “beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself” (Luke 24:27). If we are going to preach Christ, then we must do what Christ Himself did. To preach Christ is to open up the whole of Scripture and show how it all points […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 29, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features | Comments Off on WE OWE ALL TO CHRIST
JOHN 1:1-5 The Prologue to the Gospel In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was fully God. The Word was with God in the beginning. All things were created by him, and apart from him not one thing was created that has been created. In him was […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 19, 2011 in Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features | Comments Off on OPEN LETTER TO BRIAN MCLAREN
Note from Jan: Jim Fletcher is right. Friends of Israel today are treated like we have a mental disease. Even within evangelicalism, we are scorned and marginalized. What is our crime? I guess it’s our interpretation of the Bible for we see Israel’s land as God-given, not a piece of property that can be divided […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 18, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features | Comments Off on BEREAN BAPTIST PASTOR TOM NEAL INSISTS “PEEPING PASTOR” SON INNOCENT
Apprising Ministries continues with this issue we first brought to your attention in Jacksonville Berean Baptist “Peeping Pastor” Secretly Videotaped Girls Changing. There we find the sordid story of Greg Neal, co-pastor of Berean Baptist Church in Fleming Island, FL. along with his dad Dr. Tom Neal. Briefly, WAWS FOX30 out of Jacksonville told us in Pastor will not face […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 17, 2011 in AM Missives, Apologetics, Current Issues, Features | Comments Off on CHRIST JESUS GOD IN HUMAN FLESH
“Who being the brightness of (His) glory” (verse 3). In this verse the Holy Spirit continues to set forth the excellencies of Christ, and in the same order as in the preceding one. First, the Divine dignity of His person, His relation to the Father—He is the Brightness of His glory. The Greek verb from […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 17, 2011 in Current Issues, Features | Comments Off on JACKSONVILLE BEREAN BAPTIST "PEEPING PASTOR" SECRETLY VIDEOTAPED GIRLS CHANGING
Update: BEREAN BAPTIST PASTOR TOM NEAL INSISTS “PEEPING PASTOR” SON INNOCENT As spiritual darkness grows and 1 Peter 4:17 judgments sent by Jesus continue to rain upon the visible Christian church Apprising Ministries functions with other soldiers against error in the mission field of online apologetics and discernment along the Internet Front of this Truth War. One […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 2, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features | Comments Off on SPIRIT OF A PYTHON
As we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners much gain by fortune-telling. She followed Paul and us, crying out, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to you the way of salvation.” And […]