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By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 27, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Theology | Comments Off on PHIL JOHNSON ON THEOLOGICAL LIBERALISM
As a Bible-believing Christian, it’s quite likely that more and more as you listen to what’s being taught in your mainstream evangelical church, you are sensing something is “off.” 1) you’re right; it is. And 2) at Pyromaniacs recently Phil Johnson has done the Church a service is exposing why. He’s put together a couple […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 22, 2010 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features | Comments Off on MYSTICAL INTERFAITH CONFERENCES IN THE EMERGING CHURCH
By Apprising Ministries and Christian Research Network correspondent Jim Luppachino of Watchers Lamp The Center for Action and Contemplation of “Red Letter Christian” Richard Rohr brings you the following conferences: January 2010 FOLLOWING THE MYSTICS with: James Finley, PhD lived as a monk at the cloistered Trappist monastery of the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky, where the world-renowned […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 16, 2010 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Features, Richard Foster, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation | Comments Off on 9 MARKS: INTERVARSITY PRESS SEEMS ADRIFT
Apprising Ministries has long been warning that apostatizing pretending to be Protestant evangelicalism is paying a heavy price for its foolish embrace of the sinfully ecumenial Emerging Church aka Emergent Church—which morphed into Emergence Christianity (EC). The EC was a Trojan Horse that unloaded corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) ala Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster—and his spiritual twin Dallas Willard—within […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 13, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Homosexuality/"Christian", Jay Bakker | Comments Off on DECONSTRUCTING ONE OF THE MOST ATTACKED CHRISTIANS
As I urged you upon my departure for Macedonia, remain on at Ephesus so that you may instruct certain men not to teach strange doctrines, nor to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which give rise to mere speculation rather than furthering the administration of God which is by faith. But the goal of our […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 13, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features | Comments Off on SAMIR SELMANOVIC HAS LEFT THE BUILDING
they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs. They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them. (Psalm 106:35-36) All Religions Do Not Lead To God While pointing us to John Hendryx from the fine Reformation Theology and his comments concerning a “recent Time Magazine article on Christians and tolerance” a while back Ingrid Schlueter, host of […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 12, 2010 in Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church | Comments Off on THROWN UNDER THE EMERGING CHURCH BUS
With pleasure Apprising Ministries now points you to an excellent, and insightful, piece called Village Idiots by Phil Johnson, who blogs at the well-respected Pyromaniacs, and is also Executive Director of John MacArthur’s Grace to You. Johnson begins: Emergent Village is collapsing on itself. The EV Weblog, once a busy and heavily-trafficked stream of Emergent semi-consciousness […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 6, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features | Comments Off on TROUBLE IN EMERGING CHURCH PARADISE?
The Lord be praised that the online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries is one of the better known critics of the egregiously ecumenical Emerging Church aka Emergent Church that morphed into Emergence Christianity (EC)—which is now a cult of a postliberalism firmly within mainstream evangelicalism. We’re told that Brother Maynard is a respected thinker and blogger in the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 4, 2010 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features | Comments Off on CALVINIST CONTEMPLATIVE/CENTERING PRAYER?
But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how is it that you turn back again to the weak and worthless elemental things, to which you desire to be enslaved all over again? (Galatians 4:9, NASB) Reformed Theology With Counter Reformation Spirituality? In the December 30, 2009 […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 4, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features | Comments Off on SAMIR SELMANOVIC RECOMMENDING AVATAR EVANGELISM
…the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God, and I do not want you to be participants with demons. (1 Corinthians 10:20) Worshipping Demons Together Apprising Ministries has previously brought to your attention that Samir Selmanovic was integral to the birth of the egregiously ecumenical Emerging Church aka Emergent Church that morphed into Emergence Christianity (EC)—which is […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 27, 2009 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Spiritual Formation | Comments Off on CALVINIST CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY/MYSTICISM?
They are filled with influences from the east,… (Isaiah 2:6, NASB) Protestantism Returning To Dark Ages? Apprising Ministries began looking into this question in Confusion Concerning Calvinist Spirituality? Therein I followed up a tip from a reader concerning The Village Church (TVC) where Matt Chandler, a professing Calvinist, is pastor. Let me be crystal clear here; I am well aware of pastor Chandler’s current situation with his battling a malignant brain […]