By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 17, 2008 in Tony Campolo
March 10, 2008 on his PBS show Tavis Smiley asks Tony Campolo, “what is a ‘Red Letter Christian?’” Campolo replies:
Well, he or she is somebody whose beliefs are very traditional in a sense. It’s a person that believes in the Apostles’ Creed, who believes salvation comes from Jesus, who believes that the bible was inspired by [...]
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 Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 6, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Tony Campolo
Over at Watcher’s Lamp my good friend Jim Luppachino and associates have been closely following, and attempted to dialogue with, the Virginia Baptist Mission Board (SBC) concerning their current dealings with “Progressive Evangelical” [read: postliberal] Tony Campolo.
In the Apprising Ministries piece Tony Campolo to Enlighten Southern Baptists in Virginia we pointed out that Emergent Evangelical Prophet Tony Campolo is going [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 1, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Tony Campolo
“Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from childhood.” (Genesis 8:21)
If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in Heaven give good gifts to those who ask Him! (Matthew 7:11)
Did [...]
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 6, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Tony Campolo
O house of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the LORD. For you have rejected your people, the house of Jacob, because they are full of things from the east and of fortune-tellers like the Philistines, and they strike hands with the children of foreigners.
Their land is filled with silver and gold, and there is no end [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 3, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Tony Campolo
No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God, and I do not want you to be participants with demons. You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot have a part in both the Lord’s table and the table of demons. Are we [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 2, 2008 in Current Issues, Southern Baptist Convention, Tony Campolo
Emergent Evangelical Prophet Tony Campolo is going to be bringing his neo-Gnostic wisdom that he supposedly gleaned from his practice of corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism (CSM) along with the reimagined social gospel of the Emerging Church to enlighten Southern Baptists in Virginia.
You see Campolo, a “Progressive Evangelical” [read: postliberal], is featured speaker at the upcoming Baptist General Association of Virginia (BGAV) “185th Annual Meeting of the [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 16, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Tony Campolo
Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God. You, however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God lives in you. And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ. But if Christ is in you, your body is [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 14, 2008 in Current Issues, Emergent Church, Tony Campolo, Tony Jones
Every word of God is tested; He is a shield to those who take refuge in Him. Do not add to His words Or He will reprove you, and you will be proved a liar. (Proverbs 30:5-6, NASB)
The New Cult Of Liberal Theology With Its Emergent Fruit Of Homosexual Christians
If there was any wonder why [...]