By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 2, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt. (Genesis 19:26) Almost Saved, But Not Quite… Pastor Doug Pagitt, a leading voice in the evangelical Emergence rebellion against Sola Scriptura along with his friends such as Phyllis Tickle and the Elvis of Emergence Rob Bell, shares an email he received the other […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 27, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Roman Catholicism, Southern Baptist Convention
As a former Roman Catholic whom in His mercy and grace the Lord delivered from its spiritual bondage into the glorious liberty of the sons of God—and this through absolutely zero effort or seeking Him on my part—I know very well what soli Deo gloria means. And the Roman Catholic Church ain’t even in the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 26, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
In his 2007 sermon A Nation Abandoned by God Dr. John MacArthur, one of the finest teachers of the Bible in our gelatinous generation, says: One of the most tragic scenes in the Bible and yet one of the most familiar to us is the scene of the strongest man who ever lived, a man […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 26, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Roman Catholicism
For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery… You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth? This persuasion is not from Him Who calls you. A little leaven leavens the whole lump. (Galatians 5:1, 7-9, ESV) Filed Under: Just How […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 25, 2009 in AM Missives
But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of His mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, Whom He poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that, having […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 23, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
The more I’ve observed Tony Jones, a leading theologian in the Emergence rebellion against Sola Scriptura, the more he reminds me of someone I knew in school. Glen was what we might call an instigator. He was very good at getting others to do things he would suggest in order to see how far the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 21, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Southern Baptist Convention
“I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. The man who loves his life will lose it, while the man who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.” […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 19, 2009 in AM Missives, Emergence Christianity
DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA! A wise man scales the city of the mighty and brings down the stronghold in which they trust. (Proverbs 21:22, ESV) Evangelicals Swallowing Reimagined Regurgitated Liberal Theology From Seducing Spirits As this apostasy continues to spread, it’s past time for the Body of Christ to return from an empty excursion to Wonderland […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 13, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues
Tony Rose, who is a contributor of the Apprising Ministries outreach Christian Research Net, now sheds some light as to why the circus churches of these new breed pastors, in what is becoming a cult of “church planters,” are so alike. It turns out that they’ve been preaching each other’s sermons. Rose begins his report: When it comes […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 12, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Southern Baptist Convention
In a post today at the Founders Ministries Blog Tom Ascol shares his thoughts on Wade Burleson’s contention that “the administration of SWBTS planned to purge Calvinistic faculty in the name of economic cutbacks.” Ascol writes: I received numerous questions via facebook, twitter, email and old-fashioned phone calls about that accusation and the resultant denials […]