By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 7, 2008 in AM Missives, Emergent Church
They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them. (1 John 4:5) Tell Us A Bedtime Story About Your God’s Hopes And Dreams For Our World Doug While Emerging Church Pastor Doug Pagitt is not as well known as some of these spiritually nebulous new breed Christ-followers such […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 7, 2008 in AM Missives, Devotions
The LORD would speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks with his friend. Then Moses would return to the camp, but his young aide Joshua son of Nun did not leave the tent. Moses said to the LORD, “You have been telling me, ‘Lead these people,’ but you have not let me […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 6, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues
O house of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the LORD. For you have rejected your people, the house of Jacob, because they are full of things from the east and of fortune-tellers like the Philistines, and they strike hands with the children of foreigners. Their land is filled with silver and gold, and there is no end […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 6, 2008 in AM Missives, Roman Catholicism, Southern Baptist Convention
Many man-centered pied pipers of “Protestant” postevangelicalism and the Emerging Church continue a repudiation of Sola Scriptura in their sordid lust affair with spiritually corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, which flowered in the antibiblical monastic traditions of apostate Roman Catholicism. In their desire for existential experiences centered on the self and a phony form of “unity” they have turned to the mystic speculations of spurious […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 3, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergent Church
No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God, and I do not want you to be participants with demons. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot have a part in both the Lord’s table and the table of demons. Are we […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 2, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues
Do I not hate those who hate You, O LORD? And do I not loathe those who rise up against You? I hate them with the utmost hatred; They have become my enemies. (Psalm 139:21-22, NASB) So How Does God View Sin? In Everyone’s Going To Be Saved Eventually…Aren’t They? we began our look at this crucial issue but […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 1, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Rob Bell
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths. (2 Timothy 4:3-4) Tickle Our Ears With Some Bedtime Stories Rob Unfortunately […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 29, 2008 in AM Missives, Rick Warren
So Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you; as the Father has sent Me, I also send you.” (John 20:21, NASB) Talking Together About Their Books And Tickling Their Own Ears In their September 27, 2008 story “Warren Urges Larger Role for Churches to Solve Global Problems” Christian Post reports that publicity seeking Purpose Driven […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 26, 2008 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Homosexuality/"Christian"
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. (1 Corinthians 6:9-10, NASB) Talking Loud But Saying Absolutely Nothing That […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 25, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Homosexuality/"Christian"
Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. (1 Corinthians 6:9-10) Unrepentant Homosexual Practice […]