By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 4, 2012 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren
UPDATE: RICK WARREN SAYS NO KING’S WAY DOCUMENT AND NO SADDLEBACK “STAFF” INVOLVED Apprising Ministries has long been a leading critic of the semi-pelagian (at best) doctrine of Southern Baptist megachurch pastor Rick Warren. In articles like Rick Warren And Teachings Of Demons I’ve also clearly documented his sinful ecumenicism as well. Of course that’s merely one of the fruits festering […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 4, 2012 in Current Issues, Devotions, Features
“Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.” (John 1:12-13) Of the Christ, the Christ coming into the world, yet rejected by the world; […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 4, 2012 in Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren
By Christian Research Network contributor Christine Pack of Sola Sisters This is a repost of an original article on Sola Sisters In the article Rick Warren Builds Bridge to Muslims, published 2/23/12 in the Orange County Register and written by staff writer Jim Hinch, it was reported that Rick Warren of Saddleback Church was working on an […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 3, 2012 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts: “I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god. Who is like me? Let him proclaim it. Let him declare and set it before me, since I appointed an ancient people. Let them declare what is […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 3, 2012 in Current Issues, Features
When I met with [Mormon apologist] Robert Millet [years ago] I expressed my conviction as clearly as possible that the God of the Bible is a completely different God from the god of Mormonism, that the Christ of Scripture is a wholly different Christ from the christ of Mormonism, and the true gospel is a […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 2, 2012 in Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren
When asked by [Christian Post] about the [Orange County] Register’s lead paragraph that states he “has embarked on an effort to heal divisions between evangelical Christians and Muslims by partnering with Southern California mosques and proposing a set of theological principles that includes acknowledging that Christians and Muslims worship the same God,” Warren stated:
”First, as […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 2, 2012 in Current Issues, Devotions, Features
By John Samson What are the marks of a true church? I have heard people say there are three: 1. The preaching of the gospel takes place. 2. The sacraments are rightly ministered. 3. Church discipline is exercised. I can see that all of these are biblical. But is that all one should look for? What […]
By Sarah H. Leslie-Lynn D. Leslie-Ken Silva on Feb 29, 2012 in Current Issues, Definitions, Features
EVANSCHULTZICAL [ee-van-shultz’-i-kuhl, [evangelical: 1525–35; < Late Latin evangelicus (< Late Greek euangelikós; see evangel1 , -ic) + -al1] [Schultz: Oberfeldwebel (Master Sergeant) Hans Georg Schultz, serial number 23781 (John Banner) is Klink’s bumbling, highly unmilitary 300-pound Sergeant of the Guard. Schultz is a basically good-hearted man who, when confronted by evidence of the prisoners’ covert […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 29, 2012 in Current Issues, Features
By Christian Research Network correspondent Erin Benziger of Do Not Be Surprised… This is a repost of an original article on Do Not Be Surprised… From the website of Harvest Bible Chapel in Prescott, Arizona: Over the last 11 months or so, Harvest Bible Chapel Chicago (HBC Chicago) has made statements and taken actions that we strongly believe […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 29, 2012 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
Apprising Ministries reminds you that the Elephant Room 2 detonated as an explosion within evangelicalism and the aftermath continues spreading shockwaves. No doubt in the coming days we’ll see even more cracks in The Gospel Coalition, Acts 29 Network, and Harvest Bible Fellowship itself. One shockwave we saw immediately was in James MacDonald, Elephant Room […]