By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 24, 2009 in Current Issues, Rick Warren
Steve Rabey, “an award-winning writer and an adjunct professor with Fuller Seminary,” conducts an interview for Purpose Driven.com with William “Paul” Young. Rabey calls his puff piece Finding Shelter in “The Shack”: How a repentant father’s story for his kids became a best-selling, life-changing phenomenon. You can read this interview by clicking here. See also: THE […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 24, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation
DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA! Apprising Ministries has long been pointing out that the kind of anti-Reformation foolishness described below by Larry DeBryun, pastor of Franklin Road Baptist Church, is right now metatitizing as a cancer throughout the apostatizing Southern Baptist Convention. Unfortunately pragmatism rules within the Slowly Becoming Catholic and it seems likely just a matter of time that […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 23, 2009 in Current Issues
with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved. For this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false, in order that they all may be judged who did not believe the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 22, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA! I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent. (1 Timothy 2:12) If You Truly Love Jesus Then You Will Do What God Says As Apprising Ministries showed you, in Tony Jones And His Pastor Doug Pagitt With JoPa Productions And […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 22, 2009 in Current Issues
No, not that Robert Schuller; as Christianity Astray Today online tells us: “The son of a famous evangelist tells CT why he left The Hour of Power.” We’re informed that: After parting ways with his father’s Crystal Cathedral, Robert A. Schuller left preaching to start a television career. The son of The Hour of Power […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 20, 2009 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Richard Foster, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation
DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA! The following quote is from the latest Critcal Issues Commentary article Richard Foster — Celebration Of Deception Evangelical Mysticism by Bob DeWaay, pastor of Twin City Fellowship and highlights another aspect of a growing rebellion within mainstream evangelicalism against Sola Scriptura. Within DeWaay sends a clear Biblical warning concerning this core teaching of Contemplative […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 20, 2009 in Current Issues, Theology
Over at The Crux blog of Midwest Christian Outreach Ron Henzel, Christian apologist and Senior Researcher at MCO, continues his look at the cardinal Christian doctrine of the vicarious penal substitutionary atonement of Christ on the Cross, which he began in Behold The Lamb and The Lamb That Was Slain. In this edifying and well-researched piece Henzel brings out: I like things to […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 19, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA! Peter Rollins, a fast rising star within the Emerging Church aka Emergent Church, now morphing into Emergence Christianity, as espoused e.g. by his friend Rob Bell: “What if one of the core elements of a radical Christianity lay in a demand that we betray it, while the ultimate act of affirming God required the forsaking of […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 19, 2009 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA! Even as one who holds to the Biblical Reformed doctrines of grace it is still surprising how fast and how far this apostasy within evangelicalism is spreading. Take for example Christianity Today Promoting Classic Contemplative Book and Gary Gilley Reviews: The Attentive Life, Discerning God’s Presence In All Things By Leighton Ford. […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 19, 2009 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Spiritual Formation
DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA! With a link right off their main website this morning to its Christian History site Christianity Today, “a magazine of evangelical conviction,” continues leading the way back into the dark ages as they present their to a classic of corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism The Cloud of Unknowing, which begins: Sometime during the last half of the […]