By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 17, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features | Comments Off on PURPOSE DRIVEN/SEEKER DRIVEN SERMON REVIEW
For people will be lovers of self. (2 Timothy 3:2, ESV) Interlocking Circles Centered On Self With limited manpower, being that I am but one man, I do what I can here at Apprising Ministries to uncover disturbing trends within the mainstream of the evangelical community of the church visible. Primarily, as a former Roman Catholic, I focus on […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 11, 2009 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren | Comments Off on PETER SCAZZERO PROMOTED BY RICK WARREN
You must not do as they do in Egypt, where you used to live, and you must not do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you. Do not follow their practices. (Leviticus 18:3) Too Far Out For Us To Even Get A Radar Fix The other day in Rick Warren […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 9, 2009 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren | Comments Off on RICK WARREN NOW OPENLY PROMOTING CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY/MYSTICISM
As you can see in previous Apprising Ministries articles such as Rick Warren And Saddleback Church: Prayer Is Not For The Novice and Saddleback Church Pastors Using Rob Bell Teachings and Southern Baptist Pastor Rick Warren And Saddleback Church Openly Recommend Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren has actually been doing so for quite some time now. Why […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 30, 2009 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Spiritual Formation | Comments Off on CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY/MYSTICISM CREEPS CLOSER…TO YOUR CHURCH
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. (Galatians 5:1) Returning To Romanticized Roman Catholicism In posts like Emerging Church To TransFORM Outlaw Preachers and Emerging Church And Adele Sakler TransFORM Gay Agenda In Evangelicalism at Apprising Ministries I introduced you to TransFORM, a […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 25, 2009 in Roman Catholicism | Comments Off on THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH PREACHES A DIFFERENT GOSPEL
Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God (Luke 16:15). Church Of Rome’s Gospel Of Sacraments In this Apprising Ministries article we give you a quick overview of the seven sacraments of apostate Roman Catholicism. From the official Catechism […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 9, 2009 in Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features | Comments Off on JESUS DEFINES MARRIAGE FOR RED LETTER CHRISTIANS
…he is a double-minded man, unstable in all he does. (James 1:8) Jesus In The Red Letters Of Scripture Tony Campolo, a leading spokeman for the egregiously ecumenical Emerging Church aka Emergent Church de-formation of the Christian faith—now morphing into Emergence Christianity (EC), tells us below that his friends Brian McLaren and Richard Rohr were actually among those who started something known as Red Letter Christians, which […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 14, 2009 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism | Comments Off on THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SPIRITUAL FORMATION AND SANCTIFICATION
Apprising Ministries points you to an interesting discussion going on within the comments section of this post concerning a critical issue in the visible church today. We read: The difference between the Spiritual Formation and sanctification is where you go for it. In Spiritual Formation a person goes inward…and supposedly listens. In sanctification, a person […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 11, 2009 in Brian McLaren, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church | Comments Off on BRIAN MCLAREN AND EVANGELICAL PANENTHEISM (PART 3)
Of old You laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hands. They will perish, but You will remain; they will all wear out like a garment. You will change them like a robe, and they will pass away, but You are the same, and Your years have no end. (Psalm 102:25-27, ESV) […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 18, 2009 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Devotions, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Richard Foster, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation | Comments Off on CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY GROWING WITHIN MAINSTREAM EVANGELICALISM
but every man did that which was right in his own eyes. (Judges 17:6) Contemplative Spirituality Has Slithered Right Into The Mainstream Of Evangelicalism Over at the fellow online apologetics and discernment ministry Slice of Laodicea the other day Ingrid Schuleter further highlighted mainstream evangelicalism’s embrace of corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) ala Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster and […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 30, 2009 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features | Comments Off on TIM KELLER ENDORSING COUNTER-REFORMATION CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY?
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) “Circle Up The Wagons Because We’re Heading Home To Romanticized Rome!” This is a short follow-up to the Apprising Ministries post to “The Way Of The Monk” At Tim Keller’s […]