By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 22, 2009 in Current Issues
Cornerstone Christian Fellowship of Chandler, AZ has the requisite cool edgy blog for young adults. Maintained by James Patterson, Singles Pastor, it’s called the rhythm. Now in the post The Mystery of S*E*X (Week 2) we read: If we are ever to unlock the mysteries surrounding S*E*X, and we are to understand them as they relate to God’s perfect […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 21, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Features, Rob Bell
If you still think that this reimagined and repainted inclusive squishy social gospel of good deeds preached by postliberals like Rob Bell is something new; you’d better think again. Here’s J. Gresham Machen from his book Christianity & Liberalism written in 1923: But if Christianity be directed toward another world; if it be a way […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 21, 2009 in Emergent Church
*~…for those old enough to remember Cheech and Chong picture their voices…for the younger set think Keanu Reeves…~* <<<This just in to the Apprising Ministries News Room. Overheard at a recent big gathering of the new Emergence>>> Um, yeah man; god is like-ah, man…like god—he’s like bringing the whole world together, man. Yeah bro, dig […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 21, 2009 in Devotions
From the Charles Spurgeon devotional At the Master’s Feet for January 20. Using the Sword of the Spirit Spurgeon slices through the mystic mist of the mush god of contemporary Christendom: Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 20, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Features
But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of godliness, although they […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 20, 2009 in Current Issues, Homosexuality/"Christian"
Over at Camp On This Steve Camp posts the text of the prayer practicing homosexual Gene Robinson prayed To the God of our many understandings. Biblical translation: Robinson offered his prayer to demons and not to God (see-1 Corinthians 10:20); he was actually praying to the mush god of messed-up mysticism. As I said in the combox […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 19, 2009 in Current Issues
A while back Apprising Ministries ran a piece called Ravi Zacharias Answers “Can A Person Live A Sincere Christian Life As A Homosexual?” [1] Within it you can hear, via a YouTube clip [2], the well-respected Protestant evangelical apologist, Ravi Zacharias, say, “One of the greatest saints of recent memory was Henri Nouwen.” For those who may […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 16, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues
No, it’s not a new rock band; um, athough he does like to teach people to party in God on his “Drunken Glory Tours”: John Crowder and Benjamin Dunn travel the world on a continual Love Feast known as the Drunken Glory Tour. This collaborative “party ministry” is setting thousands free around the globe as we boast […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 14, 2009 in Current Issues
O My people! Their oppressors are children, And women rule over them; O My people! Those who guide you lead you astray, And confuse the direction of your paths. (Isaiah 3:12, NASB) In exegeting on this verse in his classic commentary The Book of Isaiah Dr. Edward J. Young says: The prophet probably does not intend to describe an actual situation […]