By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 10, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
Pastor John Chisham with an poignant post at his blog The Downgrade, which builds a bit on the CRN post An Ode to the Naive. He begins by asking the critical question for Christians: What is the reality of the condition of the American Church today? C?RN.info writers claim that everything is okay, except for the Synagogue […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 9, 2009 in Current Issues
Some very illuminating comments from February 2009 by Richard Abanes are reprinted below. We note further that Abanes has also said, “The Body of Christ is finally beginning to pull the mask away from these ODMs to reveal their true nature,…” (Online source) Well now, as one Jesus has sent as a pastor-teacher, I’d say that […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 9, 2009 in Devotions
But even after that we had suffered before, and were shamefully entreated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God with much contention. (1 Thessalonians 2:2) It is good for us to remember how strong He is–and how weak we are. I settled this […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 7, 2009 in Devotions
All words and music by Ken Silva Father, I want to know what You know; Father, I want to go where You go- Father, I want your Son living inside of me. Father, I know the world is dyin’; Father, somewhere we quit tryin’- Father, only Jesus, can set us free… Father, I know how […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 7, 2009 in Quotes
When you don’t even lay down clear doctrine at the level of the Gospel, where are you going to go from there? And the cry is, as one man said to me when my book on The Gospel According to Jesus came out, he said, “Your book is divisive!” You want to know something? He’s […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 6, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Rob Bell
DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA Dr. Peter Jones begins this dead on target assessment of apostatizing evangelicalism: My colleague, Mike Horton, has just published a book, Christless Christianity. I write, so to speak, from the belly of this beast, attending the National Pastors’ Conference, sponsored by Zondervan and Intervarsity Press, which is taking place in […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 5, 2009 in Current Issues
As many of you know a large part of what I do here at the labor in the Lord called Apprising Ministries is to try and show you just how far off-track rapidly apostatizing evangelicalism actually is. I’ve also mentioned that for years I was very involved working with kids in my local community as a Little League umpire, […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 4, 2009 in Current Issues
The Christian Post has more on this dumb dream: No Line On The Horizon, the latest album from Irish rock band U2, has finally hit music stores in North America after its worldwide debut Friday in Ireland. And according to a theologian in Alabama, it’s “the most thoroughly Christian thing they’ve done yet.” “Like the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 3, 2009 in Current Issues
Chris Lyons of the “Watcher of the Watchdogs” blog CRN.Info has now publicly shared his opinion that Christian Research Net, which is an outreach of Apprising Ministries-both fully integrated auxiliaries of Connecticut River Baptist Church-and Slice of Laodicea are with the “synagogue of Satan.” By clicking on the links, which I further highlighted, in his fantasy-filled piece you’ll […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 3, 2009 in Devotions
All words and music by Ken Silva We come to You Lord, we sing praise unto You; Enthroned up on high, judging all that we do… You’re the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel; And You’re My Father too… Sing all creation to the Father of light; Who sent His Son Jesus so the blind […]