By AM on Nov 21, 2008 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Features, New Spirituality, Radio Appearances, Rob Bell
In his sermon I will say it again, and again, and again, Sunday November 16, 2008, Emergent Church icon Rob Bell shares a common mantra of those neo-Gnostics involved in the Contemplative/Centering Prayer of Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism.
For them it is the mystics in various religious traditions who are the great enlightened ones. Bell says:
It’s interesting how many traditions [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 21, 2008 in Quotes, Rob Bell
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 it’s prayers, chanting, meditation, reflection, study—whatever you call it—what [...]
By AM on Nov 14, 2008 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Features, Rob Bell, Youth Ministry
A recent edition of Fighting for the Faith podcast hosted by Chris Rosebrough also featured Ken Silva of Apprising Ministries joining him in breaking down a recent sermon by Emerging Church icon Rob Bell where he attempts to exegete Philippians 3: 2 — Watch out for those dogs, those men who do evil, those mutilators of the flesh.
On this program, which [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 14, 2008 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Doug Pagitt, Emergent Church, Features, New Spirituality, Richard Foster, Rob Bell, Shane Claiborne/New Monasticism, Spiritual Formation, Tony Campolo, Youth Ministry
Come, O house of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the LORD. You have abandoned your people, the house of Jacob. They are full of superstitions from the East; they practice divination like the Philistines and clasp hands with pagans. (Isaiah 2:5-6)
Eastern-Style Meditation As The Bridge To Unite All Religions And Transform Mankind
Building on It’s High Time To Realize [...]
By AM on Nov 13, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Radio Appearances, Rob Bell
This edition of Fighting for the Faith podcast hosted by Chris Rosebrough also features Ken Silva of Apprising Ministries joining him in breaking down a recent sermon by Emerging Church icon Rob Bell.
Rosebrough and Silva discuss the way Bell makes a big mess in his sermon as he attempts to exegete Philippians 3: 2 — Watch out for those dogs, [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 23, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Rob Bell
As you can see in the Apprising Ministries article Rob Bell On The Emerging Issue of Homosexuality: Mum’s the Word pastor Rob Bell, an icon in the postliberal cult of the Emergent Church, tells practicing homosexuals that “God loves you just as you are. Period.” Well, over at Slice of Laodicea Ingrid Schlueter points out that apparently [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 1, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Rob Bell, Youth Ministry
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths. (2 Timothy 4:3-4)
So Tickle Our Ears with Some Good Bedtime Stories Rob
Unfortunately [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 20, 2008 in AM Missives, Rob Bell
The following is adapted from the Apprising Ministries post Rob Bell In A Nutshell: The Bible:
Emerging Church pastor Rob Bell
The Bells started questioning their assumptions about the Bible itself–discovering the Bible as a human product,” as Rob puts it, rather than the product of divine fiat. “The Bible is still in the center for us,” Rob says, [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 16, 2008 in Rob Bell
He must hold firmly to the trustworthy message as it has been taught, so that he can encourage others by sound doctrine and refute those who oppose it. (Titus 1:9)
Rob Bell Questions The Salvation of Ken Silva
In a December 21, 2007 story over at ABP News.com which slipped in under the radar we read:
Rob Bell, pastor of Mars Hill [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 10, 2008 in AM Missives, Emergent Church, Rob Bell, Youth Ministry
I did not send these prophets, yet they have run with their message; I did not speak to them, yet they have prophesied. But if they had stood in My Council, they would have proclaimed My Words to My people and would have turned them from their evil ways and from their evil deeds. (Jeremiah [...]