By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 11, 2008 in Current Issues, Emergent Church
The email below is presented by Apprising Ministries to make you more aware of what’s going on in evangelical schools and is published with the permission of its author. What follows is an eyewitness account and personal testimony as to what they have seen thus far in their Christian education: A Chapel with Leonard Sweet Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 11, 2008 in Rick Warren
Ok, here’s the latest scoop on the religious scene from Apprising Ministries. Well, it turns out that Rick Warren Is Saying Protestant Reformers Luther and Calvin Were Wrong because in opposition to what these Reformers taught Purpose Driven Pope Warren has now pontificated that the Roman Catholic Church is no longer apostate and is, in very fact, once again a […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 11, 2008 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Southern Baptist Convention
“The LORD said, ‘Who will entice Ahab to go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’ And one said this while another said that. “Then a spirit came forward and stood before the LORD and said, ‘I will entice him.’ “The LORD said to him, ‘How?’ And he said, ‘I will go out and be a deceiving spirit in […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 11, 2008 in Quotes
The Reformation, traditionally dated as beginning with the posting of Luther’s Ninety-five Theses on October 31, 1517, brought intense focus to the issue of scriptural sufficiency. Indeed, the formal principle of the Reformation was sola scriptura, for it was the assertion of biblical sufficiency over against tradition that allowed for the recovery of certain biblical […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 10, 2008 in Devotions
Forever, O LORD, your word is firmly fixed in the heavens. (Psalm 119:89, ESV) Read The Bible; Pray, And The Do What It Says The sad fact today is that the evangelical community is in growing rebellion against Sola Scriptura in favor of subjective experience in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism masquerading as Spiritual Formation. And one of the tragic results […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 10, 2008 in Current Issues
And after [Jesus] had said these things, He was lifted up while they were looking on, and a cloud received Him out of their sight. And as they were gazing intently into the sky while He was going, behold, two men in white clothing stood beside them. They also said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 10, 2008 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features
In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping. (2 Peter 2:3) Earth To Protestant Evangelicalism; Um, Have You Lost Your Mind!? While we don’t always agree with everything espoused the great preachers of old […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 10, 2008 in Quotes
When it comes to religion, the crowds are always wrong. At any time there are a few who see, and the rest are blinded. To stand by the truth of God against the current religious vogue is always unpopular and may be downright dangerous… Christianity’s scramble for popularity today is an unconscious acknowledgment of spiritual […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 9, 2008 in Dallas Willard, Quotes
As it concerns The Spirit of the Disciplines by Southern Baptist minister Dallas Willard: The spiritual disciplines that are supposedly necessary for spiritual formation are not defined in the Bible. If they were, there would be a clear description of them and concrete list. But since spiritual disciplines vary, and have been invented by spiritual […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 9, 2008 in AM Missives, Southern Baptist Convention
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. (Galatians 5:1) Circle Up The Wagons Evangelicalism Is Heading Back To The Bondage Of The Dark Ages The following is presented as further evidence of this Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) becoming a growing menace within the “Protestant” […]