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 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 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 […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 26, 2008 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergent Church
Apprising Ministries is pleased to point you to the following book review by my friend Dr. Gary Gilley, pastor of Southern View Chapel in Springfield, IL. In addition Gilley also produces a fine series of ongoing articles called Think on These Things which deal with a wide range of important issues facing the Body of […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 26, 2008 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergent Church
The Mush God of Mystical “Illumination”: [Jesus] said, GOD IS LOVE — period. But there is more to the message of Jesus. He insisted that His Father is crazy with love, that God is a kooky God who can scarcely bear to be without us. (teacher of Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel, 171) […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 11, 2008 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Emergent Church, Richard Foster, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation
Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace; the sinful […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 10, 2008 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Emergent Church, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation
Jesus tells us — “For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned” (Matthew 12:37). With this in mind we now let the words of universalist Roman Catholic priest Henri Nouwen (1932-1996) speak for themselves. Nouwen is so often quoted concerning so-called Spiritual Formation rooted in apostate Roman […]