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By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 1, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues | Comments Off on FOCUS ON THE FAMILY AND BRIO MAG ENCOURAGING LECTIO DIVINA
Under Links to Our Sites at the Focus on the Family (FoF) website we will find one to Brio magazine. Once there at “Brioland” we’re told: Brio is an Italian word that means full of energy, life and enthusiasm. It’s the name of our magazine because it’s a terrific definition of our readers! For more than […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 26, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features | Comments Off on RAVI ZACHARIAS, HENRI NOUWEN AND CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY/MYSTICISM (PT. 2)
Great Saints Entrenched In Apostasy And Teaching Counter Reformation Spirituality Apprising Ministries now continues our look at some of the issues raised in a letter from the ministry of Ravi Zacharias that was sent to us by an AM reader where RZIM firmly defends a statement by Zacharias where he emphatically states, ““One of the greatest saints of recent memory was Henri Nouwen.” For […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 13, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren | Comments Off on RICK WARREN: GOD'S WILL IS NOT DONE MOST OF THE TIME ON EARTH.
Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren has opened his mouth again in order to exhange feet at a Beliefnet piece called “Rick Warren’s Dark Night of the Soul.” That reference comes from the false teaching of a messed mystic called “St.” John of the Cross, who was a disciple of another duped defender of apostate Roman Catholicism “St.” Teresa of Avila. In […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 4, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Homosexuality/"Christian" | Comments Off on WE FEEL HOMOSEXUALITY IS NOT A SIN
To the teaching and to the testimony! If they will not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn. (Isaiah 8:20, ESV) A Ball Of Confusion; That’s What The Church Is Today That state of the visible church in the evangelical community is really rather pitiful indeed; and, there’s just no easy way to say […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 30, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren, Southern Baptist Convention | Comments Off on SOUTHERN BAPTIST PASTOR RICK WARREN AND SADDLEBACK CHURCH OPENLY RECOMMEND CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY/MYSTICISM
Saddleback Church Pastors Using Rob Bell Teachings here at Apprising Ministries clearly showed that Emerging Church icon and teacher of corrupt Contemplative Sprituality/Mysticism (CSM) Rob Bell has penetrated deeply into the mainstream of the evangelical community. So far so that Bell’s weekly sermons are recommended, and his Nooma DVDs sold, by pastors of the highly influential Saddleback Church (SC) of Rick Warren, which is aligned with the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 19, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Southern Baptist Convention | Comments Off on BETH MOORE AND LIFEWAY (SBC) HEAD DEEPER STILL INTO DECEPTION
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) How Would You Know If You Were Being Taught False Doctrine? At the Lifeway: Biblical Solutions for Life website of the Southern Baptist Convention we read: Together again […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 16, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Southern Baptist Convention | Comments Off on WHO IS DR. MICHAEL ARMOUR AND WHY IS HE TEACHING SOUTHERN BAPTIST PASTORS?
To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn. (Isaiah 8:20, NASB) Emergence Theory Of A Coming Higher Consciousness of Man As The New Tower Of Babel It all started innocently enough; an AM reader asked me what I knew about […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 9, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Emergent Church, Features, Richard Foster, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation | Comments Off on EVANGELICAL RIP VAN WINKLES EMPLOY QUAKER MYSTIC RICHARD FOSTER FOR BEDTIME FABLES
In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I give you this charge: Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction. For the time will […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 6, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Spiritual Formation | Comments Off on THE TERMINOLOGY TRAP OF "SPIRITUAL FORMATION"
knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone’s own interpretation. For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit. (2 Peter 1:20-21, ESV) Physical Training Is Of Some Value, But Godliness Has Value For […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 11, 2008 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Southern Baptist Convention | Comments Off on TONY CAMPOLO: COUNTER-REFORMATION SAINTS LIKE IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA IMPORTANT SOURCES OF HELP
“The LORD said, ‘Who will entice Ahab to go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’ And one said this while another said that. “Then a spirit came forward and stood before the LORD and said, ‘I will entice him.’ “The LORD said to him, ‘How?’ And he said, ‘I will go out and be a deceiving spirit in […]