Category: Emergent Church
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 13, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA! These are the men who are hidden reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you without fear, caring for themselves… (Jude 12, NASB) C’mon Now Rip Van Winkle’s In Evangelical Leadership; It’s Way Past Time To Wake Up! Have you ever wondered what seducing spirits espousing doctrines of demons look […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 12, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Homosexuality/"Christian"
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. (1 Corinthians 6:9-10, KJV) It’s Not Loving And Tolerant To […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 11, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian", Rob Bell
Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things. Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 9, 2009 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Richard Foster, Rob Bell, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation
In his latest article at Christian Issues Commentary, which is a must read, pastor Bob DeWaay weighs in on “spiritual disciplines” as it concerns Donald Whitney and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. DeWaay notes the close similarity between Whitney’s teachings and those of Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster. Within DeWaay’s scholarly piece he correctly points out that the subjective […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 4, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Rob Bell
So says Greg Gilbert of 9 Marks. Gilbert begins his piece by telling us: In my travels last week, I missed this interview of Rob Bell by Christianity Today’s Mark Galli. I’ve interacted with some of Rob’s other materials on this site, and my conclusion has been that what he is holding out as the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 3, 2009 in Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Quotes
Qualities like diversity, ambiguity, mystery, and novelty—as well as qualms about expressing our own certainty—will sound like positive virtues to almost anyone steeped in postmodern entertainments and mass media. But from a biblical perspective, those things are not inherently virtuous at all. In fact, they are all fraught with serious and significant dangers, especially when […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 30, 2009 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Theology
Over at Midwest Christian Outreach Ron Henzel, Christian apologist and Senior Researcher at MCO, has an edifying post concerning the cardinal Christian doctrine of the vicarious penal substitutionary atonement of Christ on the Cross: Christian worship services around the world regularly echo with the declaration of John the Baptist: “Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 29, 2009 in AM Missives, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church
DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA! …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. (2 Thessalonians 2:10-11, NASB) No Matter How Intelligent You Think You Are You Are Not In Control Of Being […]
By AM on Apr 29, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Devotions, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian"
The sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine. (1 Timothy 1:10, ESV) In Paul’s letter to Timothy his first concern is that Timothy will stand in opposition to false teachers and appoint others who will oppose false teachers. The concern that Paul has regarding false […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 27, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Rob Bell
DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA! For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. (2 Timothy 4:3-4, ESV) There Are Three Things That […]
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