By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 9, 2006 in Emergent Church
Unequally Yoked Together Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth? We continue our look at the “Radical Emergent Evangelical Prophet” Tony Campolo who was slated to be a speaker at NPC 2006. Campolo provides us with a good chance to set the record straight about our so-called “attacks” on the Emerging […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 6, 2006 in AM Missives, Emergent Church
When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 3, 2006 in AM Missives, Emergent Church
“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say?” The Radical Prophet Of God Amazingly enough, one of keynote speakers for the General Session at the National Pastor’s Conference 2006 sponsored by Zondervan, Leadership and InterVarsityPress turned out to be Tony Campolo. Campolo is professor emeritus of Sociology at Eastern University and […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 24, 2006 in Brian McLaren, Emergent Church, Features
They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. (2 Timothy 4:4) Have It Your Way Spirituality We now begin the final part of our look at curious spiritual associations that Brian McLaren has been making through the years, as well as some of the odd inclusivistic statements in his […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 23, 2006 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Emergent Church, Features
To the Teaching and to the Testimony! If they will not speak according to this Word, it is because they have no dawn. (Isaiah 8:20, ESV) Strange Bedfellows Come Emerging We continue with our examination of the oxymoron that would be/is Brian McLaren and “evangelical” panentheism, and just how this might shed some light on […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 7, 2006 in AM Missives, Emergent Church
For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right. For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD. Wherefore their […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 6, 2005 in Current Issues, Emergent Church, Features
As this apostasy grows darker we have now reached the point in postmodern America where the ecumenical new evangelical church once headed by disgraced NAE President Ted Haggard is facing the exact same issue as that encountered by Charles Haddon Spurgeon with the encroaching liberals in the Baptist Union of his day. This article is […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 16, 2005 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Therefore God exalted Him to the highest place and gave Him the Name that is above every name, that at the Name of Jesus every knee should bow, in Heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. (Philippians 2:9-11) […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 26, 2005 in Current Issues, Features, Joel Osteen, Word Faith
On Slice Of Laodicea Ingrid Schlueter said – “This writer believes that ‘in-house’ differences with Joyce Meyers, Kenneth Copeland, T.D. Jakes, Paula White, Joel Osteen and company shouldn’t be addressed in the church. He says that Christians need to stop tearing down other Christians because everyone is doing a good job for the body of […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 23, 2005 in Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren
This is the final part of our look at this crucial question, and we have already seen more clearly the unbridgeable chasm between these two contrasting positions. We have also been looking briefly at some comments directed to me by Richard Abanes, a prominent member of Rick Warren’s Saddleback church, and therefore a good example […]