By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 20, 2008 in Current Issues, Emergent Church, Theology
In the August 2007 article “What Did Paul Really Mean?”, which concerns this counterfeit view of the theology of the Apostle Paul Christianity Entropy Today magazine we read: For nearly 30 years, a number of theologians have argued for a “new perspective” on the apostle Paul and his doctrine of justification. Advocates of this approach […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 18, 2008 in Current Issues, Word Faith
Can you be a Christian and deny the Deity of the Savior you profess to believe in? Yep. And further you can even be inducted into the Southern Gospel Music Hall of Fame as was Joel Hemphill in 2007: Joel Hemphill is a noted singer-songwriter, evangelist, musician, and author. He and his wife, LeBreeska, formed […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 17, 2008 in Current Issues
Here’s Luke 5:8 from the brand new people-friendly Emerging Church/Church Planting Movement Post-evangelical, Post-Liberal, Post-Christian…ah, whatever…Post-Everything Bible: Immediately Peter took off his sunglasses, put his arm around the shoulders of Jesus and said, “Whoa Dude, I’m so stoked that You love me. But hey, what’s not to love huh? Man, why don’t You and me […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 17, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues
The following is an exchange in the comments section at Strange Baptist Fire. First a little background for those who might be new to this issue of Ray Comfort being publicly yoked with Word Faith wolves like John Avanzini, Jesse Duplantis, Mike Murdock, and Rod Parsley in the advertising for the Inspiring Excellence conference, which […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 15, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Homosexuality/"Christian"
All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 15, 2008 in Current Issues, Features
Apparently Gene Robinson’s “god” is the same capricious one that Emerging Church “pastor” Jay Bakker is so fond of chatting with, e.g. Jay Bakker Challenges Mega-Church Pastors On Homophobia. Practicing sodomite “Christian” Gene Robinson, overseer of Episcopal Churches in New Hampshire where I happen to live, says of his ordination as a practicing homosexual: I’m deeply […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 12, 2008 in Current Issues, Emergent Church, Rob Bell
In a two part series over at Pulpit Magazine Nathan Williams fills us in his trip the Mars Hill Bible Church where Emerging Church icon Rob Bell is the teaching pastor: Anyone who has read blogs for any amount of time, has no doubt entered into a discussion, or at least read one on the […]