By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 7, 2008 in AM Missives, Emergent Church
They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them. (1 John 4:5) Tell Us A Bedtime Story About Your God’s Hopes And Dreams For Our World Doug While Emerging Church Pastor Doug Pagitt is not as well known as some of these spiritually nebulous new breed Christ-followers such […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 3, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergent Church
No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God, and I do not want you to be participants with demons. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot have a part in both the Lord’s table and the table of demons. Are we […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 1, 2008 in Current Issues, Emergent Church
Phyllis Tickles Many Emerging Ears With Her New Book Apprising Ministries pointed out in Who Is Phyllis Tickle? that she has likened Emergent Church Guru Brian McLaren to Martin Luther. Self-proclaimed “progressive Presbymergent” Adam Walker Cleaveland who was at the 2006 joint annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature and American Academy of Religion where Tickle made the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 1, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Rob Bell
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths. (2 Timothy 4:3-4) Tickle Our Ears With Some Bedtime Stories Rob Unfortunately […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 30, 2008 in Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths. (2 Timothy 4:3-4, NASB) Phyllis, Will You Please Tickle Our Ears… […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 29, 2008 in Emergent Church
Over at Pyromanics Phil Johnson posted three PoMotivators. This first one is so dead on target re. Doug Pagitt of the Emerging Church it’s gotta leave a mark. In my opinion Pagitt wouldn’t know platonic thought if he fell over it. And frankly, whenever I hear Emerging Church Pastor Doug Pagitt speak I’m reminded of an old James Brown […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 26, 2008 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Homosexuality/"Christian"
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. (1 Corinthians 6:9-10, NASB) Talking Loud But Saying Absolutely Nothing That […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 25, 2008 in Current Issues, Emergent Church
Apprising Ministries brings you the prophetic words of Dr. Walter Martin (1928-1989), founder of the Christian Research Institute and the original “Bible Answer Man.” Here from his lecture on The Cult of Liberal Theology circa 1987. This important message is available at Walter Martin Religious InfoNet and thoroughly exposes the theologically rotten roots that are even now slithering into mainstream evangelicalism underneath the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 16, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergent Church
Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God. You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ. But if Christ is in you, your body is […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 10, 2008 in AM Missives, Emergent Church
For I have not hesitated to proclaim to you the whole will of God. Keep watch over yourselves and all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers. Be shepherds of the church of God, which he bought with his own blood. I know that after I leave, savage wolves will come […]