Category: Apologetics
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 14, 2011 in Apologetics, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Quotes, Rob Bell, Theology, Youth Ministry
Have postmodern westerners just decided that hell is no more? Can we really just think the doctrine away? Os Guinness notes that western societies “have reached the state of pluralization where choice is not just a state of affairs, it is a state of mind. Choice has become a value in itself, even a priority. [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 5, 2011 in AM Missives, Apologetics, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Youth Ministry
Apprising Ministries is doing what we can to help you understand that theological poison is, right now, seeping into the veins of the mainstream evangelical camp because of its tragic mistake of embracing the upgraded sinfully ecumenical neo-liberal cult of the Emergent Church aka the Emerging Church with its postmodern Progressive Christian theology—a Liberalism 2.0—that they often refer to as [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 19, 2011 in AM Missives, Apologetics, Current Issues, Jehovah's Witnesses
And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you. (John 14:16-17) The Person Of God The [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 16, 2010 in AM Missives, Apologetics, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Theology, Youth Ministry
1. The warning against false teachers Christ then said, “Beware of false prophets” (Matthew 7:15). For every true prophet calling people to the narrow way, are a multiplicity of false prophets calling people to the broad way that leads to destruction. Christ’s warning [about false teachers] was not new. Deuteronomy 13:1-5 documents the presence of [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 15, 2010 in Apologetics, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Theology
By Apprising Ministries correspondent Mike Ratilff of Possessing the Treasure In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. (John 1:1-2 ESV) I heard a sermon once a long time ago in which the preacher defined a cult as any [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 24, 2010 in AM Missives, Apologetics, Current Issues, Devotions, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat, so practice and observe whatever they tell you—but not what they do. For they preach, but do not practice. They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on people’s shoulders, but they themselves [...]
By AM on May 10, 2010 in Apologetics, Current Issues, Features
By Bud Press, Director Christian Research Service Yesterday, I stumbled upon the YouTube video below titled, Are “Christian Ministries” Adding To The “Word of God”? by a guy named Brother John. In the video, Brother John voices his concerns about the Open Heavens Bible which, he says, is published by Fresh Fire Ministries, and includes commentary by Todd [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 1, 2009 in Apologetics, Quotes
In Matthew 19:3-6, the eyewitness biographer records this exchange between Jesus and the Pharisees: Matt. 19:3 And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one’s wife for any cause?” 4 He [Jesus] answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 29, 2009 in AM Missives, Apologetics, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Rick Warren, Southern Baptist Convention
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 [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 5, 2009 in AM Missives, Apologetics, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features
For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. (Galatians 5:1, ESV) Non-Protesting Protestants Engaging In Revisionist History Of The Lord’s Reformation Last time in Ravi Zacharias International Ministries Embracing Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) we began a look at the letter from Margaret Manning of RZIM and saw they are still equivocating with words in an ongoing [...]
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