By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 21, 2011 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian", Youth Ministry
THE INJUNCTIONS IN THE LAW God’s command concerning homosexuality is clear: “You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination” (Lev 18:22). This is expanded in Leviticus 20:13. “If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 21, 2011 in Current Issues, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian", Semi-Satire
See also: RANDY ROBERTS POTTS AND THE GAY SON OF ORAL ROBERTS APPRISING MINISTRIES, RANDY ROBERTS POTTS, AND YOUR SUPPORT THE SIN OF HOMOSEXUALITY IS DIFFERENT Print this entry
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 21, 2011 in Devotions
I will not offer burnt offerings to the Lord my God that cost me nothing. (2 Samuel 24:24b) An unknown author defined commitment by saying, “The difference between involvement and commitment is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was involved – the pig was committed.” Commitment to the physical things of life is more obvious [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 20, 2011 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian"
Broad Road Of Reimagined Religion As 1 Peter 4:17 judgments sent by Jesus fall through the growing spiritual darkness the online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries continues documenting the falling away of the evangelical church.[1] One such judgment can be seen e.g. in Doug Pagitt And The Emerging Church Gay Agenda[2] where these neo-liberals [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 20, 2011 in Devotions
We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up. (Romans 15:1-2) You who have long been believers in the Lord Jesus, who have grown rich in experience, who know the love [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 20, 2011 in Current Issues, Features
Apprising Ministries is among the online those apologetics and discernment works who’re exposing and documenting the falling away of the evangelical community. We now point you to The Hopecast blog and this important subject concerning the aftermath of apostasy: There is nothing so painful as the wounds inflicted by other professing believers. When the wounds are the result [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 20, 2011 in Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren, Semi-Satire
HT: Truthinator See also: JOHN PIPER, RICK WARREN & FOSTER-WILLARDISM THE DANIEL PLAN OF RICK WARREN ENCOURAGES “NEW AGE WACKO-ISM” RICK WARREN, THE DANIEL PLAN, AND DOMINIONISM Print this entry
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 20, 2011 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Youth Ministry
Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 20, 2011 in Current Issues, Features, Youth Ministry
While I make no claim to know when the Lord Jesus will return, I will say that it’s entirely possible we are living in a time where we are seeing the beginning of a great falling away. And so a large part of our online apologetics and discernment labors Apprising Ministries is to document the [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 19, 2011 in Current Issues, Emergent Church, Erwin McManus, Features, Youth Ministry
The gospel’s most dangerous earthly adversaries are not raving atheists who stand outside the door shouting threats and insults. They are church leaders who cultivate a gentle, friendly, pious demeanor but hack away at the foundations of faith under the guise of keeping in step with a changing world. No Christian should imagine that heresy [...]