By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 29, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA! The Christian News service One News Now is reporting: A conservative activist is questioning some of the conclusions Christian researcher George Barna reached in his “Spiritual Profile of Homosexual Adults.” The new Barna survey of homosexual adults finds that 27 percent qualify as born-again Christians and 43 percent have an “orthodox, biblical […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 29, 2009 in Emergence Christianity
The following is a transcript of a “teaching” by Phyllis Tickle presented May 3, 2009 at Mars Hill Bible Church where Emerging Church aka Emergent Church, now morphing into Emergence Christianity, leader Rob Bell is “teaching pastor.” TICKLE: Good morning, Mars Hill. AUDIENCE: Good Morning. TICKLE: I can’t even begin to tell you how lovely it is to be back […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 28, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian"
DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA! God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men. (Romans 1:26-27) If You Really Love […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 28, 2009 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Theology
Over at The Crux blog of Midwest Christian Outreach Ron Henzel, Christian apologist and Senior Researcher at MCO, continues his look at the cardinal Christian doctrine of the vicarious penal substitutionary atonement of Christ on the Cross. Henzel opened the series with Behold The Lamb and has continued with The Lamb That Was Slain and Losing Sight Of The Lamb. As […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 27, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Rob Bell
DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA! If you think that the Emerging Church aka Emergent Church, now morphing into Emergence Christianity, is dead or somehow is outside the mainstream of evangelicalism I admonish you in the Lord to think again. For example consider Tony Jones Speaking at Cornerstone Festival, and along with his quasi-universalist pastor Doug Pagitt, is behind an upcoming Emergence conference detailed in Christianity 21: Emerging […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 26, 2009 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Richard Foster, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation
DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA! Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all handed down to the saints. For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 25, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Homosexuality/"Christian", Southern Baptist Convention
DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA! and with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved. For this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false, in order that they all may […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 23, 2009 in Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church
DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA! with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved. For this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false, in order that they all may be judged […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 22, 2009 in Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church
Emerging Church aka Emergent Church, now morphing into Emergence Christianity, theologian Leonard Sweet wants us to know that this A Magna Carta for Restoring the Supremacy of Jesus Christ a.k.a. A Jesus Manifesto for the 21st Century, written in conjunction with Frank Viola, “may be the most important thing I’ve ever written” See also: WRETCHED: BRIAN MCLAREN GOSPEL PREACHING […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 22, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA! I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent. (1 Timothy 2:12) If You Truly Love Jesus Then You Will Do What God Says As Apprising Ministries showed you, in Tony Jones And His Pastor Doug Pagitt With JoPa Productions And […]