By AM on Jul 6, 2010 in Devotions
So these nations feared the LORD and also served their carved images. Their children did likewise, and their children’s children did likewise, and their children’s children – – as their fathers did, so they do to this day. (2 Kings 17:41) It is dangerous to be kept in a land that is full of idolatry. […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 3, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Devotions
Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you— unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 1, 2010 in Current Issues, Devotions, Features
O LORD, you have deceived me, and I was deceived; you are stronger than I, and you have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all the day; everyone mocks me. For whenever I speak, I cry out, I shout, “Violence and destruction!” For the word of the LORD has become for me a reproach and derision all […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 27, 2010 in Current Issues, Devotions, Features
You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 21, 2010 in Devotions
Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law. (Psalm 119:18) May You Open Our Eyes Lord I’ve been meaning to talk about this for some time now, but it seems good in the Lord to mention it here in this piece at Apprising Ministries to encourage your study of the Bible. […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 20, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Devotions
But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. (2 Peter 2:1) It’s pretty obvious that if God had wanted us all to live in the false kind of […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 15, 2010 in AM Missives, Devotions
But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 12, 2010 in Devotions
Because of these times in which we live, and due to the unbridled arrogance of this postmodern pagan nation to which Christ has sent us, it will require our Lord’s true ministers to approach our more public stance much like John the Baptist did. As you recall he wasn’t exactly the proto-typical ecumenical Purpose Driven/Seeker Driven Emerging […]
By AM on Jun 12, 2010 in Devotions
by John D. Morris, Ph.D., president of The Institute for Creation Research “Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils.” (1 Timothy 4:1) In chapter one of his first epistle to Timothy, Paul warned about false teachers and heresies in […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 8, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Devotions, Features
“How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?” (Matthew 18:12, KJV) This New Downgrade Today Creates No Controversy Apprising Ministries has been warning about, and documenting, the […]