By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 21, 2005 in Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren
In the first part of this look into the wide chasm between the high call of the Christ-centered life that our Lord Jesus calls all of His disciples to, and the contrasting shallow man-centered doctrines of the Purpose Driven Life, I shared how my initial involvement with ministry to the postmodern church began. Awash with […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 19, 2005 in Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren
As the pastor-teacher of a local church, in addition to developing this Internet “pulpit” called Apprising Ministries, which was literally given to me, I have had to come to grips with the very real fact that there is a wide and ultimately unbridgeable chasm of difference between these two divergent positions. There clearly is a […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 5, 2005 in Current Issues
Issue In his article for the Christian Research Institute called Islam’s Worldwide Revival, Joseph Gudel, professor of Apologetics at Simon Greenleaf School of Law writes: La ilaha illa Allah, Muhammadu Rasool Allah – [which means] ‘There is no deity except God, Muhammad is the Messenger of God.’ This is called the Kalima and is the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 4, 2005 in Apologetics
When discussing the doctrine of the Holy Trinity it is a good idea to remember that the orthodox Christian Church has been doing its best to comprehend the infinite God with our finite minds for some two thousand years now! And some of the greatest intellects in long history of the Christian Church have attempted […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 1, 2005 in Current Issues
Origins The late Victor Paul Wierwille founded The Way International organization in 1967 on a farm owned by his family in New Knoxville, Ohio. V.P. Wierwille, who died in 1985, purchased a phony doctoral degree from Pike’s Peak Bible Seminary, which is known as a diploma mill, although he did earn a Master of Theology […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 30, 2005 in Current Issues
Overview According to The Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of California: Freemasonry is a Brotherhood of Men under the Fatherhood of God, charged with the mission of identifying good men and giving them the opportunities and resources to become better men. Masonry is not a religion by the definitions most […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 30, 2005 in Current Issues
If we listen to people today concerning the subject of evolution you would think that scientists and scholars have definitively proven that this universe created itself and life arose from non-life. The facts however, prove otherwise and in this article we look at what some of the various scholastic disciplines actually have to say about […]