By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 26, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God… And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth… No one has ever seen God; the only God, […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 26, 2011 in Current Issues, Features
This just in from Internet News headquarters, where our motto is: If it’s news; it’s news to us. Dateline Anywhere USA; maybe even Your Town: This just in…the world’s gone mad. Ok, that’s not so new; but Scotty McCreery just won American Idol, and you may recall our piece Harold Camping Prepares 4 Judgment Day. […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 25, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction. (Proverbs 1:7) Why There Are So Many Fools Teaching About God? The online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries has been documenting the growing falling away of the mainstream evangelical community; and I’ve warned you that there is a tsunami […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 25, 2011 in Current Issues, Features, Quotes
Now the task of hermeneutics is to realize, first of all, that there is a God given meaning in Scripture, apart from you or me or anybody else. Scripture means something if means nothing to me, understood? It means something if it means nothing to you. It means something if it means nothing to anybody. […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 25, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
I’ve pointed out many times now that as a general rule, and a courtesy, we do not publish email without the permission of the sender. At the same time, all email sent to AM and Christian Research Network is considered the property of Apprising Ministries so we may indeed publish unsolicited email for the purposes […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 24, 2011 in Current Issues, Devotions, Features
No matter what the circumstances begin to look like as spiritual darkness continues to fall, and the days of evil come while this apostasy keeps spreading throughout man-centered evangelicalism, we who are in Christ will understand that the Bible is a supernatural Book. A truly amazing Book—written by the Spirit for our merciful Father in Heaven to […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 24, 2011 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
By Apprising Ministries correspondent Christine Pack of Sola Sisters In a recent article, popular emergent author Donald Miller (Blue Like Jazz) pondered who feels closer to God: liberal theologians or conservative theologians. In this article, Miller also deconstructed the personality traits of both liberals v. conservatives through the use of something known as the Enneagram […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 24, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple. But he answered them, “You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.” As […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 23, 2011 in Current Issues, Devotions, Features, Quotes
In one of his letters to Erasmus, Luther said, “Your thoughts of God are too human.” Probably that renowned scholar resented such a rebuke, the more so, since it proceeded from a miner’s son; nevertheless, it was thoroughly deserved. We too, though having no standing among the religious leaders of this degenerate age, prefer the […]