By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 10, 2008 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features | Comments Off on RAGAMUFFIN SPIRITUALITY WITH BRENNAN MANNING
In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping. (2 Peter 2:3) Earth To Protestant Evangelicalism; Um, Have You Lost Your Mind!? While we don’t always agree with everything espoused the great preachers of old […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 9, 2008 in AM Missives, Southern Baptist Convention | Comments Off on O, BUT BAPTIST STATE CONVENTION OF NORTH CAROLINA (SBC) WANTED YOU TO KNOW…
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) Circle Up The Wagons Evangelicalism Is Heading Back To The Bondage Of The Dark Ages The following is presented as further evidence of this Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) becoming a growing menace within the “Protestant” […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 3, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergent Church | Comments Off on TONY CAMPOLO: "CHRISTIAN MYSTICISM" TRUMPS THE BIBLE (PART 2)
No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God, and I do not want you to be participants with demons. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot have a part in both the Lord’s table and the table of demons. Are we […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 30, 2008 in Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church | Comments Off on WHO IS PHYLLIS TICKLE?
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths. (2 Timothy 4:3-4, NASB) Phyllis, Will You Please Tickle Our Ears… […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 21, 2008 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism | Comments Off on THE EMERGENT "ONE"
Through the Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism currently infesting the Christian community inherent in The Ecumenical Church Of Deceit (ECoD) of postevangelicalism today we are seeing a new reimagined Gnosticism emerging from mystical encounters allegedly with God. However, as you will come to see this idea of a mystical union of the soul with God which is so common to many […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 13, 2008 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Spiritual Formation | Comments Off on WHO IS CATHERINE OF SIENA?
Appealing To Apostate Roman Catholic Mystics For Protestant “Spiritual Formation” Due to the importance of the issues concerning the influx into evangelicalism of corrupt Contemplative/Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) and its so-called “Christian” meditation of Contemplative/Centering Prayer(CCP)—which flowered in the antibiblical monastic traditions of apostate Roman Catholicism, i.e. no longer Christian—Apprising Ministries is doing all we can to bring […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 8, 2008 in Current Issues | Comments Off on SHANE CLAIBORNE AND MYSTICISM'S GOSPEL OF GOODNESS
Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 4, 2008 in AM Missives, Emergent Church | Comments Off on TONY JONES: EMERGENT CHURCH DIVINE INTERVENTION
In 2006 Tony Jones, anti-theologian of the postliberal cult of the Emergent Church, wrote a little book called Divine Intervention: Encountering God Through the Ancient Practice of Lectio Divina (DIEG). Of course it was endorsed by his friend “author/networker” Brian McLaren–whom Jones lists among his “faith heroes” (19). …but they mingled with the nations and […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 2, 2008 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Dallas Willard, Emergent Church, Features, Richard Foster, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation | Comments Off on ABOUT RICHARD FOSTER
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) A Quaker Mystic Is Now Teaching Us Proper Protestant Biblical Spirituality? Apprising Ministries has been warning you that Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster is hands down the leading proponent […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 1, 2008 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Emergent Church, Features, Richard Foster, Rick Warren, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation | Comments Off on CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY/MYSTICISM AS METHODOLOGY FOR SPIRITUAL FORMATION
“…take one or two others along, so that ‘every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.’ ” (Matthew 18:16) The Murky Mystic Shadows Of Spurious Spiritual Formation Looms Closer To You In a court of law it is a common occurrence for trial lawyers to bring in expert witnesses from specialized fields […]