By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 21, 2009 in Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Homosexuality/"Christian", Quotes
The period in which we now live may well go down in history as the Erotic Age. Sex love has been elevated into a cult. Eros has more worshipers among civilized men today than any other god. For millions the erotic has completely displaced the spiritual…. Now if this god would let us Christians alone […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 21, 2009 in AM Missives, Devotions
Not everyone who says to Me, “Lord, Lord,” will enter the Kingdom of Heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father Who is in Heaven. Many will say to Me on that day, “Lord, Lord did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name drive out demons and perform many […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 20, 2009 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Richard Foster, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation
DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA! The following quote is from the latest Critcal Issues Commentary article Richard Foster — Celebration Of Deception Evangelical Mysticism by Bob DeWaay, pastor of Twin City Fellowship and highlights another aspect of a growing rebellion within mainstream evangelicalism against Sola Scriptura. Within DeWaay sends a clear Biblical warning concerning this core teaching of Contemplative […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 20, 2009 in Current Issues, Theology
Over at The Crux blog of Midwest Christian Outreach Ron Henzel, Christian apologist and Senior Researcher at MCO, continues his look at the cardinal Christian doctrine of the vicarious penal substitutionary atonement of Christ on the Cross, which he began in Behold The Lamb and The Lamb That Was Slain. In this edifying and well-researched piece Henzel brings out: I like things to […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 19, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA! Peter Rollins, a fast rising star within the Emerging Church aka Emergent Church, now morphing into Emergence Christianity, as espoused e.g. by his friend Rob Bell: “What if one of the core elements of a radical Christianity lay in a demand that we betray it, while the ultimate act of affirming God required the forsaking of […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 19, 2009 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA! Even as one who holds to the Biblical Reformed doctrines of grace it is still surprising how fast and how far this apostasy within evangelicalism is spreading. Take for example Christianity Today Promoting Classic Contemplative Book and Gary Gilley Reviews: The Attentive Life, Discerning God’s Presence In All Things By Leighton Ford. […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 19, 2009 in Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Quotes, Roman Catholicism
the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God, and I do not want you to be participants with demons. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot have a part in both the Lord’s table and the table of demons. Are we trying to […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 19, 2009 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Spiritual Formation
DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA! With a link right off their main website this morning to its Christian History site Christianity Today, “a magazine of evangelical conviction,” continues leading the way back into the dark ages as they present their to a classic of corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism The Cloud of Unknowing, which begins: Sometime during the last half of the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 18, 2009 in Current Issues
Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped. (Philippians 2:5-6) What The Scripture Says The intent of this work at Apprising Ministries is drawn from an adage by one of the greatest illustrative Bible teachers the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 18, 2009 in Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church
It’s been said elsewhere that perfect fear casts out love; and it may come as a surprise, but I happen to agree: Perfect fear of the Lord casts out the love, ala 2 Timothy 3:2, of the self i.e. mankind. Works like this; the inerrant and infallible inspired Word of the one true and living God the […]