By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 12, 2010 in Devotions
And I will strengthen them in the Lord: and they shall walk up and down in his name, saith the Lord. (Zechariah 10:12) A solace for sick saints. They have grown faint, and they fear that they shall never rise from the bed of doubt and fear; but the Great Physician can both remove […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 11, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian", Jay Bakker
In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes. (Judges 17:6) The Blind Leading The Blind As spiritual blindness grows and a tsunami of apostasy approaches a large part of my task here at the online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries is to cover, and document, issues within the visible […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 11, 2010 in Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren
A brother offended is more unyielding than a strong city. (Proverbs 18:19) A Big Name In The Visible Church Doesn’t Somehow Get A Pass From Their Sin If you haven’t seen my post Rick Warren Is Lying I’ll give you a quick recap: The sad fact is Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren of the highly influential Saddleback Church lied; […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 10, 2010 in Current Issues, Features
This online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries has been documenting for you how doctrinal lines continue to be erased with great rapidity in what’s becoming The Ecumenical Church Of Deceit (ECoD). I’ve already warned you that evanjellyfish is only just beginning to pay a heavy price for its foolish embrace of the sinfully ecumenial […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 10, 2010 in Current Issues, Features, Richard Foster
A brother offended is more unyielding than a strong city. (Proverbs 18:19) A Big Name In The Visible Church Doesn’t Somehow Get A Pass From Their Sin That’s the sad fact. Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren of the highly influential Saddleback Church is caught in a lie, unless the following—which Apprising Ministries first showed you in Apprising Ministries, Rick Warren, […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 9, 2010 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church
For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 9, 2010 in Devotions
Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken. (Isaiah 62:4) “Forsaken” is a dreary word. It sounds like a knell. It is the record of the sharpest sorrows and the prophecy of direst ills. An abyss of misery yawns in that word forsaken. Forsaken by one who pledges his honor! Forsaken by a friend so […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 8, 2010 in Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren
By now likely you know that Dr. John Piper made the dubious decision to feature Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren as the keynote speaker at the DG 2010 conference Think: The Life of the Mind & the Love of God. Afterward Apprising Ministries showed you what some of the finest writers in online apologetics and discernment ministry had to say […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 8, 2010 in Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren
It’s no secret that the online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries is a leading critic of Rick Warren of the highly influential Saddleback Church who, like me, is a pastor within the Southern Baptist Convention. One of my writers over at Christian Research Network made me aware today of the following tweet, which would appear to be from […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 7, 2010 in Devotions
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but […]