By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 26, 2011 in Current Issues, Features, Quotes
Redemption is a picturesque way of looking at what Christ did on the cross. Vividly it brought before first-century men some important aspects of the salvation Christ died to bring… People are by nature slaves to sin. This means more than they occasionally do evil things. In the state of the modern world it cannot […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 26, 2011 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
These things you have done, and I have been silent; you thought that I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you. (Psalm 50:21) Men Said, “Let Us Make God In Our Image.” Some people just don’t get it. Apprising Ministries has been making you aware of the now upgraded Emerging Church 2.0 with […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 25, 2011 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Apprising Ministries has been covering the rise of the neo-liberal cult of the Emergent Church for half a decade now; and for the past year, I’ve been showing you how it was a Trojan Horse that was foolishly taken inside mainstream evangelicalism. At its core the Emerging Church (EC) has always been an existential rebellion against the final authority of the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 24, 2011 in Current Issues, Features, Roman Catholicism
But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. (Galatians 1:8) Speaking The Truth In Love Let me make this as clear as I possibly can for the Roman Catholics who read this work in Christ. I […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 23, 2011 in Current Issues, Features, Roman Catholicism
Apprising Ministries has documented for you the fact that there have been no changes in the dogmas of apostate Roman Catholicism concerning soteriology since the Roman Catholic Church Condemned The Gospel at their Council of Trent in the 16th century, which you can see for yourself—from official Roman Catholic sources—in Has The Roman Catholic Church Really Changed? I’ve […]
By AM on Jan 21, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren
By Ponderings From Patmos: Biblical Truth For Modern Day Exiles, used with permission Today on Patmos we will discuss my experience at the Saddleback Health and Fitness Seminar this past weekend. I first arrived to Saddleback’s campus only to be told that “all parking lots were full.” I drove across the street to see if there were any spots available in the business lots and they […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 21, 2011 in Current Issues, Features, Roman Catholicism
If we would be true to the Lord and to the Reformation heritage we embrace, we must take a strong stand against any ecumenical movement that is willing to compromise the biblical gospel for unity with Roman Catholicism. Rome claims that the sola fide teaching of the Reformation rejected all works of holiness and the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 21, 2011 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Jay Bakker
The online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries has pointed out that thanks to evangelicalism embracing the sinfully ecumenical neo-liberal cult of the Emergent Church aka the Emerging Church—with its its “big tent” Progressive Christianity aka Emergence Christianity—and by using warped and toxic teachings of EC leaders like Emerging Church rock star pastor Rob Bell, it has poisoned its own young. Since squishy evanjellyfish […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 21, 2011 in Quotes, Theology
The plan of salvation is presented under the form of a covenant. This is evident: First, from the constant use of the words berit and diatheke in reference to it. With regard to the former of these words, although it is sometimes used for a law, disposition, or arrangement in general, where the elements of […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 21, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be […]