By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 22, 2009 in Quotes
The Church at this moment needs men, the right kind of men, bold men… We languish for men who feel themselves expendable in the warfare of the soul, who cannot be frightened by threats of death because they have already died to the allurements of this world. Such men will be free from the compulsions […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 22, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church
Earlier, in the Apprising Ministries article Richard Rohr: Conversations, Convergence And Emergence Apostasy we brought to your attention something called Conversations, Convergence and Action. This emerging event features such notable false teachers as Richard Rohr, purveyor of apostate Roman Catholicism, Emergent Guru Brian McLaren, the Tony Campolo disciple Shane Claiborne, and Empress of Emergence Phyllis Tickle, converging together to spread what is now being called […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 21, 2009 in Devotions
Now it came to pass, as they went, that he entered into a certain village: and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house. And she had a sister called Mary, which also sat at Jesus’ feet, and heard his word. But Martha was cumbered about much serving, and came to him, and said, Lord, […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 21, 2009 in Quotes
If Christianity is to receive a rejuvenation, it must be by other means than any now being used. If the Church in the second half of this century is to recover from the injuries she suffered in the first half, there must appear a new type of preacher. The proper, ruler-of-the-synagogue type will never do. […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 20, 2009 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Rob Bell
Rob Bell, the Elvis of Emergence Christianity, has taught: It’s interesting how many traditions (pause) When you read the great enlightened ones; meditation, centering prayer, reflection—in every tradition you can find the mystics—and what’s always at the heart of the spiritual lives, the everyday lives of the great ones was always a period of time. Whether […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 20, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Devotions, Features
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. (1 John 4:1, NASB) Tuning Out The Ways Of God To Tune In The Traditions Of Men It is true that I don’t happen to agree with everything the late […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 20, 2009 in Devotions
And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do; the heads of them were two hundred. (1 Chronicles 12:32) A prophet is one who knows his times and what God is trying to say to the people of his times…. Today we […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 20, 2009 in Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church
As pointed out in the Apprising Ministries post Emergence Pastor Rob Bell To Have Friend Peter Rollins In Conference this July pastor Rob Bell, the Elvis of Emergence, will be featuring his “friend” Peter Rollins in Bell’s upcoming pastors conference. In fact, Bell refers to Rollins as “one of the freshest voices” that he’s heard in this Emergence rebellion against Sola Scriptura, whose basic […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 19, 2009 in Quotes
[T]he evangelical movement imploded because it nurtured its own deficiencies. Neo-evangelical principles ultimately eradicated historic evangelicalism, and those of us who are paleo-evangelicals frankly have no movement that we really belong to… I haven’t even given you a single quote from Lloyd-Jones’s book What is an Evangelical? So let me strongly recommend again that you […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 19, 2009 in Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church
As pointed out in the Apprising Ministries post Emergence Pastor Rob Bell To Have Friend Peter Rollins In Conference this July pastor Rob Bell, the Elvis of Emergence, will be featuring his “friend” Peter Rollins in Bell’s upcoming pastors conference. In fact, Bell refers to Rollins as “one of the freshest voices” that he’s heard in this Emergence rebellion against Sola Scriptura, whose basic […]