By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 13, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Homosexuality/"Christian", Jay Bakker
As I urged you upon my departure for Macedonia, remain on at Ephesus so that you may instruct certain men not to teach strange doctrines, nor to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which give rise to mere speculation rather than furthering the administration of God which is by faith. But the goal of our […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 13, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs. They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them. (Psalm 106:35-36) All Religions Do Not Lead To God While pointing us to John Hendryx from the fine Reformation Theology and his comments concerning a “recent Time Magazine article on Christians and tolerance” a while back Ingrid Schlueter, host of […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 12, 2010 in Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church
With pleasure Apprising Ministries now points you to an excellent, and insightful, piece called Village Idiots by Phil Johnson, who blogs at the well-respected Pyromaniacs, and is also Executive Director of John MacArthur’s Grace to You. Johnson begins: Emergent Village is collapsing on itself. The EV Weblog, once a busy and heavily-trafficked stream of Emergent semi-consciousness […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 12, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
They probably wouldn’t be so quick to do what Extreme Theology talks about in the post Playing the Pharisee Card: What do you do when you confront someone with their false doctrine and Bible twisting and they accuse you of being a Pharisee? You need to hear this segment of the Fighting for the Faith […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 12, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian"
“Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you?” (Luke 6:46, ESV) To Ignore God’s Word Is To Ignore Him No doubt the dreadful and awesome, glorious and majestic, LORD God Almighty Who revealed Himself in His inerrant and infallible Word in Holy Scripture i.e. the Bible does whatever pleases […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 12, 2010 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation
HT: Pirate Christian Radio See also: CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY CATALYST PETER SCAZZERO CALVINIST CONTEMPLATIVE/CENTERING PRAYER? DONALD WHITNEY AND EVANGELICAL CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY/MYSTICISM RICHARD FOSTER’S LEGACY ENDURES: CHRISTIAN LEADERS HELP TO MAKE IT SO THE TERMINOLOGY TRAP OF “SPIRITUAL FORMATION” CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY OF RICHARD FOSTER ROOTED IN THE EASTERN DESERT AND THOMAS MERTON PASTOR KEN SILVA—THE HIJACKING OF […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 11, 2010 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church
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, NASB) Birds Of A Foul Feather […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 11, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian"
…knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone’s own interpretation. For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit. (2 Peter 1:20-21, ESV) Putting The Bible On Trial Awaiting Execution Apprising Ministries has been warning you […]
By AM on Jan 11, 2010 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Radio Appearances
From the website of PID Radio: HOW DO Christians know what to think when our pastors bring teachings into church that are rooted in heresy or the occult? Discernment, that’s how. Know the genuine article so you can spot the counterfeit. Our guest has made a ministry of pointing out false doctrine in some of […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 10, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Word Faith
Apprising Ministries has shown you e.g. in John Crowder And The New Mystics that there’s a younger section of the Word Faith Movement that’s so far out there we can’t even get a radar fix on them, to use the words of my good friend Bud Press of Christian Research Service. Chrystal over at Slaughter of the Sheep is […]