By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 16, 2010 in Current Issues, Features
Note: This article was authored by a “concerned Christian,” who embarked on this mission with the prayer support of Discernment Ministries. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 16, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
We must present the Bible as the Word of God, not the words of men, but the Word of the living God: God speaking about Himself; God speaking about men; God speaking about life; God telling us what He is going to do about a fallen world. That is what we need to preach with […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 15, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
Subtitled: “But I’d secretly rather have a God who is a non-anxious presence,” Apprising Ministries now brings to your attention a web only post by Mark Galli, senior managing editor of Christianity Today. Galli begins: I like a tranquil, even-keeled, self-controlled God. A God who doesn’t fly off the handle at the least provocation. A God who […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 15, 2010 in Devotions
“Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.” (Matthew 5:4) By the valley of weeping we come to Zion. One would have thought mourning and being blessed were in opposition, but the infinitely wise Savior puts them together in this Beatitude. What He has joined together let no man put asunder. Mourning […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 15, 2010 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever? What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 14, 2010 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions. (2 Timothy 4:3-4) Mystics Multiplying Myth A while back […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 14, 2010 in Current Issues, Features
Apprising Ministries continues to document the falling away of the evangelical community and Willow Creek Community Church (WCCC), one of the original man-centered megachurches vomited forth from the Devil’s Church Growth Movement, continues leading the charge into apostasy. As you see below today WCCC is bringing in Emerging Church mystic Rob Bell, who’s without a doubt the rock star pastor of the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 13, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.” Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 13, 2010 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren
He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. (James 1:8) Why Are Evangelical Leaders Silent About Warren’s Sin? Unfortunately Dr. John Piper made an ill-advised decision to bring in Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren for the Desiring God Conference 2010 as the keynote speaker. The online apologetics and discernment work Apprising Ministries has been among those who’ve been reporting on Piper Warrengate, […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 13, 2010 in Devotions
“For I will surely deliver thee, and thou shalt not fall by the sword, but thy life shall be for a prey unto thee: because thou hast put thy trust in me, saith the Lord.” (Jeremiah 39:18) Behold the protecting power of trust in God. The great men of Jerusalem fell by the sword, […]