By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 27, 2013 in Devotions
He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. (Hebrews 1:3) The true power of the church lies in Christ personally. You may have all the stars that ever made bright the Milky Way with their combined sheen, […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 27, 2013 in Current Issues, Devotions, Features
This is a sorrowful portion of my subject. But it is one which I dare not, can- not pass by. I have no sympathy with those who prophesy nothing but peace, and keep back from men the awful fact, that they may lose their souls. I am one of those old-fashioned ministers who believe the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 26, 2013 in Current Issues, Features
“I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. The man who loves his life will lose it, while the man who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.” (John […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 26, 2013 in Current Issues, Features
Further reading SOVEREIGN GRACE MINISTRIES: IN SEX ABUSE CASE COURTS SHOULDN’T “SECOND GUESS” THEIR PASTORAL COUNSELING JESUS CULTURE’S KIM WALKER-SMITH’S ALLEGED ENCOUNTER WITH GOD THE FATHER AND JESUS CHRIST PUTTING FACES ON WORD OF FAITH VICTIMS
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 25, 2013 in Current Issues, Features
Sovereign Grace Ministries (SGM) of C.J. Mahaney has been in the news lately, e.g. Lawsuit Targets Sovereign Grace Ministries And Co-Founder Over New Child Abuse Allegations. As you might imagine with something like this, things are not well within all f SGM’s sectors as we can see in Flagship Church Votes To Leave C.J. Mahaney’s Sovereign […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 25, 2013 in Current Issues, Features
This online apologetics and discernment ministry (OADM) Apprising Ministries continues to do our part to alert you to increasing syncretism within apostatizing mainstream evangelicalism. Following below I give you another example of how what should be important doctrinal differences are rapidly being obscured. Consider Jesus Culture’s Kim Walker-Smith’s Alleged Encounter With God The Father And Jesus Christ. Kim Walker-Smith […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 25, 2013 in Current Issues, Features, Quotes
The preaching and teaching of a false prophet does not emphasize repentance in any real sense. It has a very wide gate leading to salvation and a very broad way leading to heaven. You need not feel much of your own sinfulness; you need not be aware of the blackness of your own heart. You […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 25, 2013 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
Further reading THE EMERGING CHURCH AND THE WILD GOOSE CHASE INTO POSTMODERN PROGRESSIVE CHRISTIANITY THE EMERGING CHURCH AND THE NEW PROGRESSIVE THEOLOGY ON CHRIST THE EMERGING CHURCH AND THE NEW PROGRESSIVE THEOLOGY ON OTHER RELIGIONS
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 25, 2013 in Current Issues, Features
By Christian Research Network correspondent Mike Ratilff of Possessing the Treasure This is a repost of an original article on Possessing the Treasure 11 Διὸ μνημονεύετε ὅτι ποτὲ ὑμεῖς τὰ ἔθνη ἐν σαρκί, οἱ λεγόμενοι ἀκροβυστία ὑπὸ τῆς λεγομένης περιτομῆς ἐν σαρκὶ χειροποιήτου, 12 ὅτι ἦτε τῷ καιρῷ ἐκείνῳ χωρὶς Χριστοῦ, ἀπηλλοτριωμένοι τῆς πολιτείας τοῦ Ἰσραὴλ καὶ ξένοι τῶν διαθηκῶν τῆς ἐπαγγελίας, […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 24, 2013 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
Here at Apprising Ministries I’ve been documenting for you the growing falling away of the mainstream evangelical community; and warned you that there is a tsunami of apostasy—pushed along by 1 Peter 4:17 judgments—headed toward the church visible. As bad as it is right now, as the old saying goes, you ain’t seen nothing yet. With this falling away has come […]