By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 19, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. (1 Corinthians 6:9-10) The Bible Very […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 19, 2010 in Current Issues
“Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be.” (Deuteronomy 33:25) Here are two things provided for the pilgrim: shoes and strength. As for the shoes: they are very needful for traveling along rough ways and for trampling upon deadly foes. We shall not go barefoot […]
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 17, 2010 in Current Issues
This just in from Internet News headquarters, where our motto is: If it’s news; it’s news to us. Dateline Anywhere USA; maybe even Your Town: There had been some talk around the blogosphere this past summer about the possibility that a new insidious cult was forming across the Internet. Generally this was being referred to as “ODMs,” which is […]
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 Current Issues, Features
Note: This article was authored by a “concerned Christian,” who embarked on this mission with the prayer support of Discernment Ministries. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself […]
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 […]