By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 5, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
And he said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, “‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men.” And he […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 3, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts: “I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god. Who is like me? Let him proclaim it. Let him declare and set it before me, since I appointed an ancient people. Let them declare what is […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 3, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Word Faith
But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed. And in their […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 3, 2010 in Current Issues, Features
As an FYI Apprising Ministries points you to Paul Young in Seattle September 10th – FREE where heretical author of the travesty called The Shack tells tough-talking New Calvinist Mark Driscoll that it’s time for him to “man up.” Seems Young has now issued the following challenge to Driscoll: “Mark Driscoll has leveled some serious charges against my […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 2, 2010 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 1, 2010 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Marcus Borg, Rob Bell
Apprising Ministries has reminded you that the Emerging Church progressive/liberal theologians such as Dr. Philip Clayton of the Transforming Theology network and Tony Jones, heretical “theologian in residence” at the church of his equally heretical quasi-universalist pastor Doug Pagitt, are busy “doing theology.” This is their term for bantering ideas back and forth—that may or may not have anything to do with the Bible—as they […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 1, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
These are hidden reefs at your love feasts, as they feast with you without fear, shepherds feeding themselves… (Jude 12) Christians Who Don’t Believe What Christians Believe Apprising Ministries has told you before that the sinfully ecumenical Emerging Church, which has now blossomed into a full-blown neo-liberal cult that’s operating within mainstream evangelicalism itself, would prove to be a […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 1, 2010 in Current Issues, Quotes, Theology
It is common to say that hell is the absence of God. Such statements are motivated in large part by the dread of even contemplating what hell is like. We try often to soften that blow and find a euphemism to skirt around it. We need to realize that those who are in hell desire […]