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By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 13, 2010 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 13, 2010 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 12, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ. (Colossians 2:8) There’s No Big Tent By The Narrow Gate Apprising Ministries told you in posts such as Pretending That Big Tent Christianity Is The Church and […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 11, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Quotes
[A] new kind of modernism is pushing Christians onto the down-grade. Why is it that biblical Christianity in modern times has been so vulnerable to doctrinal compromise and worldly influence? A fascinating historical account of the fundamentalist/evangelical movement in microcosm is found in Reforming Fundamentalism: Fuller Seminary and the New Evangelicalism, by George Marsden. Tracing […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 11, 2010 in Current Issues, Erwin McManus, Features
For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. (2 Timothy 4:3-4) Myths Of The Mind Of McManus Apprising Ministries brings your attention to […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 11, 2010 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Dallas Willard, Richard Foster, Spiritual Formation
Religion is, shortly, the reaction of the human soul in the presence of God. As God is as much a part of the environment of man as the earth on which he stands, no man can escape from religion any more than he can escape from gravitation. But though every man necessarily reacts to God, […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 10, 2010 in Current Issues, Features
O People of the Scripture, do not commit excess in your religion or say about Allah except the truth. The Messiah, Jesus, the son of Mary, was but a messenger of Allah and His word which He directed to Mary and a soul [created at a command] from Him. So believe in Allah and His […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 10, 2010 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features
For their vine comes from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah; their grapes are grapes of poison; their clusters are bitter; their wine is the poison of serpents and the cruel venom of asps. (Deuteronomy 32:32-33) Practices Of Contemplative Spirituality Are Not Neutral Apprising Ministries documented for you in “The Way Of The Monk” At Tim […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 10, 2010 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Devotions, Features
For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform signs and wonders, to lead astray, if possible, the elect. (Mark 13:22) Spiritual Deception Depends Upon Counterfeit Experience Which Looks And Feels Real Apprising Ministries with just a little heads up that heretics know how to use the language well in order to draw in their […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 10, 2010 in Devotions
Happy is the man that feareth alway. (Proverbs 28:14) The fear of the Lord is the beginning and the foundation of all true religion. Without a solemn awe and reverence of God there is no foothold for the more brilliant virtues. He whose soul does not worship will never live in holiness. He […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 9, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Jay Bakker
If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness, he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions, and […]
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