By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 17, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
Now when you talk about origins you’re going to have to go back to Genesis. This is a book of origins. And let me put it again on the line where I put it last Lord’s day. Either you believe Genesis or you don’t. It’s that simple. Either you believe what Genesis says about all […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 16, 2010 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who is seated on many waters, with whom the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality, and with the wine of whose sexual immorality the dwellers on […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 16, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
We must present the Bible as the Word of God, not the words of men, but the Word of the living God: God speaking about Himself; God speaking about men; God speaking about life; God telling us what He is going to do about a fallen world. That is what we need to preach with […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 15, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
Subtitled: “But I’d secretly rather have a God who is a non-anxious presence,” Apprising Ministries now brings to your attention a web only post by Mark Galli, senior managing editor of Christianity Today. Galli begins: I like a tranquil, even-keeled, self-controlled God. A God who doesn’t fly off the handle at the least provocation. A God who […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 15, 2010 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever? What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 14, 2010 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions. (2 Timothy 4:3-4) Mystics Multiplying Myth A while back […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 13, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.” Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 13, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren
He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. (James 1:8) Why Are Evangelical Leaders Silent About Warren’s Sin? Unfortunately Dr. John Piper made an ill-advised decision to bring in Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren for the Desiring God Conference 2010 as the keynote speaker. The online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries has been among those who’ve been reporting on Piper Warrengate, […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 12, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
Yesterday in Robert Schuller retiring from Crystal Cathedral I linked to a Breitbart report and said that the visible church will be minus a chief heretic as Breitbart is reporting that Robert Schuller is retiring: The Rev. Robert H. Schuller, founder of Southern California’s Crystal Cathedral megachurch and host of the “Hour of Power” televangelism broadcast, announced Sunday […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 10, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
No doubt there’s rough spiritual sea dead ahead; and while I don’t agree with everything he taught, Apprising Ministries has told you before that Dr. Walter Martin (1928-1989), author of the classic textbook The Kingdom of the Cults, was widely recognized as one of the foremost defenders of what he would so often call “the historic orthodox […]