By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 31, 2008 in Current Issues, Southern Baptist Convention
I am truly humbled by, and undeserving of, what Steve Camp writes in this piece over at his blog Camp On This: When we are wronged, spoken falsely about, our character maligned and reputation smudged, how should we as Christians respond? What does the Word of God teach about this, especially when it comes to the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 31, 2008 in Current Issues, Southern Baptist Convention
For those who may have missed it as they try and sort through the wreckage of this most unfortunate incident where accusations by Richard Abanes, whose pastor is Rick Warren, did lead to the termination of the old Apprising Ministries website I have given my summation of what actually happened in “Just the Facts” About Richard […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 30, 2008 in Current Issues, Southern Baptist Convention
“But let your statement be, ‘Yes, yes’ or ‘No, no’; anything beyond these is of evil.” (Matthew 5:37) A Factual Overview From Where I Stand Years ago their was a kind of campy detective show which I enjoyed as a kid called Dragnet. The main character of the show was Det. Joe Friday who was […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 24, 2008 in Current Issues, Southern Baptist Convention
Does any one of you, when he has a case against his neighbor, dare to go to law before the unrighteous and not before the saints? Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world? If the world is judged by you, are you not competent to constitute the smallest law courts? […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 24, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues
An important issue within this saga of Ray Comfort publicly yoking himself with Word Faith wolves the Inspiring Excellence (IEC) heresy-palooza is that there is misinformation about it coming from Comfort and WOTM. In No, Ray Comfort The Issue Is Not Closed I pointed out that the initial mistake they made when I wrote privately […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 24, 2008 in Current Issues
Daniel Chew is a friend of mine and the author of Driven Away by Purpose. Chew approaches dismantling and destroying the man-centered methodology of Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren in a way that I’ve not seen in any other work. I recommend it even of you think you’ve “heard it all” concerning the decidedly non-Calvinistic […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 24, 2008 in Current Issues
Apprising Ministries wants you to know that over at Word and Verse we find a straightforward and on target post from Isaiah concerning what he has called “the Ray Comfort issue.” He begins: The word “disappointment” cannot even begin to describe what I felt after reading Ingrid’s report (you can also listen to the podcast […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 23, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Word Faith
A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city, And contentions are like the bars of a citadel. (Proverbs 18:19, NASB) This Was Never Any Attack On Ray Comfort Or His WOTM The Lord is my witness that I did not want it to come to this. However, in regard to what […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 22, 2008 in Current Issues, Word Faith
Today Ingrid Schlueter did a program reporting on her experience at the recently concluded Word Faith Inspiring Excellence conference. At the website for Crosstalk we read: Many Crosstalk listeners may be familiar with the Word of Faith movement. Within the Word of Faith camp, a main thread running through their theology is the belief that […]