By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 19, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Southern Baptist Convention
It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery. (Galatians 5:1, NASB)
How Would You Know If You Were Being Taught False Doctrine?
At the Lifeway: Biblical Solutions for Life website of the Southern Baptist Convention we read:
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By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 19, 2008 in Current Issues, Features, Southern Baptist Convention
On its present course of apostasy within its “leadership” (can you even have leadership with autonomy as an accountability system?) the Southern Baptist Convention will find out the hard way that the Idol of Autonomy they bow before is an unfaithful harlot.
From the Baptist General Conference of Missouri:
In June representatives from Kansas City area Baptist groups, including [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 16, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Southern Baptist Convention
To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn. (Isaiah 8:20, NASB)
Emergence Theory Of A Coming Higher Consciousness of Man As The New Tower Of Babel
It all started innocently enough; an AM reader asked me what I knew about Dr. Michael [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 15, 2008 in Current Issues, Southern Baptist Convention
After being baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove and lighting on Him, and behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is My beloved Son, in Whom I am well-pleased.” (Matthew 3:16-17, NASB)
To Deny The Trinity [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 9, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Emergent Church, Features, Richard Foster, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation, Youth Ministry
In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I give you this charge: Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction.
For the time will come [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 2, 2008 in AM Missives, Features, Roman Catholicism, Southern Baptist Convention
People continue asking, “Did Vatican II change the dogma of Roman Catholic Church concerning what they teach about the Church and salvation?” And it seems that no matter how many times we try and tell people that it did not they continue to ask. So in this article I now ask a question in return: Will the pope do?
Apprising Ministries has covered this [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 31, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Rick Warren, Southern Baptist Convention
Martin Luther, arguably the father of the Protestant Reformation:
The negotiation about doctrinal agreement displeases me altogether, for this is utterly impossible unless the pope has his papacy abolished. Therefore avoid and flee those who seek the middle of the road. Think of me after I am dead and such middle-of-the-road men arise, for nothing good [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 11, 2008 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Southern Baptist Convention, Tony Campolo
“The LORD said, ‘Who will entice Ahab to go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’ And one said this while another said that. ”Then a spirit came forward and stood before the LORD and said, ‘I will entice him.’ ”The LORD said to him, ‘How?’ And he said, ‘I will go out and be a deceiving spirit in [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 9, 2008 in AM Missives, Southern Baptist Convention
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. (Galatians 5:1)
Circle Up The Wagons Evangelicalism Is Heading Back To The Bondage Of The Dark Ages
The following is presented as further evidence of this Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) becoming a growing menace within the “Protestant” evangelical community. [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 6, 2008 in AM Missives, Roman Catholicism, Southern Baptist Convention
Many man-centered pied pipers of “Protestant” postevangelicalism and the Emerging Church continue a repudiation of Sola Scriptura in their sordid lust affair with spiritually corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, which flowered in the antibiblical monastic traditions of apostate Roman Catholicism.
In their desire for existential experiences centered on the self and a phony form of ”unity” they have turned to the mystic speculations of spurious Spiritual [...]