By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 10, 2008 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features
In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping. (2 Peter 2:3) Earth To Protestant Evangelicalism; Um, Have You Lost Your Mind!? While we don’t always agree with everything espoused the great preachers of old […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 8, 2008 in Current Issues
*Update* “Brother” Davis has written and has given me permission to correct the link in his original email: Please update your website with a corrected link by going to the Universal Orthodox site. I was not able to send a correct link because your contact form does not allow for HTML or URLs. Many of […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 8, 2008 in Current Issues
If you’re going to preach immature doctrine you might also want to look the part as well. The “message” you’ll hear below makes about as much sense to us as that of most of today’s seeker-friendly movements, whether they be Purpose Driven, Progressive and Emerging or Word Faith. But hey, you gotta admit at least this guy really […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 8, 2008 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Richard Foster, Spiritual Formation
It happened that while Jesus was praying in a certain place, after He had finished, one of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, teach us to pray just as John also taught his disciples.” (Luke 11:1, NASB) Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism Was Never Part Of Christ’s Doctrine In that verse from Luke 11 our Lord Christ Jesus of […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 6, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues
O house of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the LORD. For you have rejected your people, the house of Jacob, because they are full of things from the east and of fortune-tellers like the Philistines, and they strike hands with the children of foreigners. Their land is filled with silver and gold, and there is no end […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 3, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergent Church
No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God, and I do not want you to be participants with demons. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot have a part in both the Lord’s table and the table of demons. Are we […]
By AM on Oct 3, 2008 in Current Issues
The things change, the more they stay the same. Stand up and speak the Truth of God and be labeled a “troubler.” HT: Lane Chaplin and Slice of Laodicea
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 2, 2008 in Current Issues, Southern Baptist Convention
Emergent Evangelical Prophet Tony Campolo is going to be bringing his neo-Gnostic wisdom that he supposedly gleaned from his practice of corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) along with the reimagined social gospel of the Emerging Church to enlighten Southern Baptists in Virginia. You see Campolo, a “Progressive Evangelical” [read: postliberal], is featured speaker at the upcoming Baptist General Association of Virginia (BGAV) “185th Annual Meeting of […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 2, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues
Do I not hate those who hate You, O LORD? And do I not loathe those who rise up against You? I hate them with the utmost hatred; They have become my enemies. (Psalm 139:21-22, NASB) So How Does God View Sin? In Everyone’s Going To Be Saved Eventually…Aren’t They? we began our look at this crucial issue but […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 1, 2008 in Current Issues, Emergent Church
Phyllis Tickles Many Emerging Ears With Her New Book Apprising Ministries pointed out in Who Is Phyllis Tickle? that she has likened Emergent Church Guru Brian McLaren to Martin Luther. Self-proclaimed “progressive Presbymergent” Adam Walker Cleaveland who was at the 2006 joint annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature and American Academy of Religion where Tickle made the […]