By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 7, 2009 in Quotes
When you don’t even lay down clear doctrine at the level of the Gospel, where are you going to go from there? And the cry is, as one man said to me when my book on The Gospel According to Jesus came out, he said, “Your book is divisive!” You want to know something? He’s […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 6, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Rob Bell
DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA Dr. Peter Jones begins this dead on target assessment of apostatizing evangelicalism: My colleague, Mike Horton, has just published a book, Christless Christianity. I write, so to speak, from the belly of this beast, attending the National Pastors’ Conference, sponsored by Zondervan and Intervarsity Press, which is taking place in […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 5, 2009 in Current Issues
As many of you know a large part of what I do here at the labor in the Lord called Apprising Ministries is to try and show you just how far off-track rapidly apostatizing evangelicalism actually is. I’ve also mentioned that for years I was very involved working with kids in my local community as a Little League umpire, […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 4, 2009 in Current Issues
The Christian Post has more on this dumb dream: No Line On The Horizon, the latest album from Irish rock band U2, has finally hit music stores in North America after its worldwide debut Friday in Ireland. And according to a theologian in Alabama, it’s “the most thoroughly Christian thing they’ve done yet.” “Like the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 3, 2009 in Current Issues
Chris Lyons of the “Watcher of the Watchdogs” blog CRN.Info has now publicly shared his opinion that Christian Research Net, which is an outreach of Apprising Ministries-both fully integrated auxiliaries of Connecticut River Baptist Church-and Slice of Laodicea are with the “synagogue of Satan.” By clicking on the links, which I further highlighted, in his fantasy-filled piece you’ll […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 3, 2009 in Devotions
All words and music by Ken Silva We come to You Lord, we sing praise unto You; Enthroned up on high, judging all that we do… You’re the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel; And You’re My Father too… Sing all creation to the Father of light; Who sent His Son Jesus so the blind […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 2, 2009 in Quotes
Unrenewed persons find fault with God’s justice. Eternal punishment they cavil at; hell is such a bugbear to them, that, just as every culprit will, of course, find fault with the prison and the gallows, so they rail at the wrath to come, though that wrath is just as sure, notwithstanding all their objections to […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 2, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt. (Genesis 19:26) Almost Saved, But Not Quite… Pastor Doug Pagitt, a leading voice in the evangelical Emergence rebellion against Sola Scriptura along with his friends such as Phyllis Tickle and the Elvis of Emergence Rob Bell, shares an email he received the other […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 1, 2009 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity
Republished from the Christian Research Net, which is an outreach from Apprising Ministries: So when one doesn’t have the anchor of God’s Word as the final authority to judge highly subjective “feelings” concerning what a person believes then we’ll wind up heading where this pastor is drifting and Giving Up Certainty: Doubts don’t arise from fear, but […]