By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 22, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church
Earlier, in the Apprising Ministries article Richard Rohr: Conversations, Convergence And Emergence Apostasy we brought to your attention something called Conversations, Convergence and Action. This emerging event features such notable false teachers as Richard Rohr, purveyor of apostate Roman Catholicism, Emergent Guru Brian McLaren, the Tony Campolo disciple Shane Claiborne, and Empress of Emergence Phyllis Tickle, converging together to spread what is now being called […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 20, 2009 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Rob Bell
Rob Bell, the Elvis of Emergence Christianity, has taught: It’s interesting how many traditions (pause) When you read the great enlightened ones; meditation, centering prayer, reflection—in every tradition you can find the mystics—and what’s always at the heart of the spiritual lives, the everyday lives of the great ones was always a period of time. Whether […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 20, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Devotions, Features
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. (1 John 4:1, NASB) Tuning Out The Ways Of God To Tune In The Traditions Of Men It is true that I don’t happen to agree with everything the late […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 16, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Richard Foster, Spiritual Formation
The following is from unsolicited email received from a brother pastor-teacher and is published with his permission. He was writing in response to the recent Apprising Ministries article Richard Foster A Reliable Source For Proper Christian Spirituality? Sadly, Celebration of Discipline, a piece of spiritual skubalon by Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster, which Dr. Gary Gilley has rightly called “a […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 15, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Rob Bell
as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.” (Romans 3:10-12, ESV) The god of Rock And Roll Does Soothe The Soul Of Many Modern Christians And postmodern professing Christians as well it seems. O, […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 14, 2009 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features, Richard Foster, Spiritual Formation
Then the LORD said to me, “The prophets are prophesying falsehood in My name I have neither sent them nor commanded them nor spoken to them; they are prophesying to you a false vision, divination, futility and the deception of their own minds.” (Jeremiah 14:14, NASB) Hammering Out The Golden Buddha Of The Mystic Mush […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 12, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Rob Bell
Over at Reformed Nazarene Manny Silva, no relation that I know of other than being in Christ, begins his post concerning pastor Rob Bell of the Emergence rebellion against Sola Scriptura: The title** for today’s post (coincidentally we are studying 1st John in Sunday School class) could actually apply to any of a number of emergent “high priests” who […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 12, 2009 in Current Issues
This piece of satire should make one pause and remember an old adage: Be careful what you pray for; you just might get it… Ignatius from travis hawkins on Vimeo. HT: Slice of Laodicea
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 10, 2009 in Current Issues
Evangelical apologist Richard Abanes, whose pastor for years is the PDL Pope Rick Warren, has clarified his position a bit more concerning so-called “Online Discernment Ministries”: I do think that if all of these ODMs are indeed saved/regenerate, then I don’t think it would be too far off base to say that all of them, or […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 10, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
Pastor John Chisham with an poignant post at his blog The Downgrade, which builds a bit on the CRN post An Ode to the Naive. He begins by asking the critical question for Christians: What is the reality of the condition of the American Church today? C?RN.info writers claim that everything is okay, except for the Synagogue […]