By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 14, 2008 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Emergent Church, Features, Richard Foster, Rob Bell, Spiritual Formation
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 […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 23, 2008 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features
How long will this continue in the hearts of these lying prophets, who prophesy the delusions of their own minds? (Jeremiah 23:26) Forward Back Into The Ancient-Future Of A Reimagined Christianity Already Condemned Ok, so here’s the deal via a little reductio ad absurdum, which may actually be synonymous with postevangelcalism; but that’s for another […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 22, 2008 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism
But I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man, but to remain quiet. (1 Timothy 2:12, NASB) After listening to this deluded drivel about going “into the great silence” from monkette wannabe “Pastor” Ruth Haley Barton, who’s already in violation of God’s Word, I found the Lord really illuminating the critical importance of […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 22, 2008 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Richard Foster
Over at Bible Study Notes we see an in-depth look at some of the teachings of Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster, which begins: Richard Foster’s writings have been at the forefront of the contemplative movement since the 1970s. No one has done more than this man to spread contemplative mysticism throughout Protestant and Baptist churches. Foster’s […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 21, 2008 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues
This short post is related to the Apprising Ministries article Biola University Now Drifting From Evangelical Protestant Roots? Over at From the Lighthouse… we’re informed: On October 21st, someone from the Media Relations department at Biola University contacted Lighthouse Trails because of articles we have posted about Biola’s promotion of contemplative spirituality. The person, who asked not to […]
By AM on Oct 21, 2008 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Features
Lane Chaplin put together the below You Tube clip with Ken Silva of Apprising Ministries joining Ingrid Schlueter on her Crosstalk radio program to address an important aspect the current drift away from Sola Scriptura in contemporary evangelicalism. In Christianity Today Promoting the Cult of Richard Foster a few of weeks back we told you about a feature interview with Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 17, 2008 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation, namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 16, 2008 in Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Emergent Church
Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making an appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. (2 Corinthians 5:20, NASB) Would A Christian Go To A Pagan In Order To Learn How To Pray To God? As Apprising Ministries previously brought out in Who Is John […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 14, 2008 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues
But [Jesus] answered and said, “It is written, ‘MAN SHALL NOT LIVE ON BREAD ALONE, BUT ON EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS OUT OF THE MOUTH OF GOD.’” (Matthew 4:4, NASB) Christ Jesus Himself Is The One Who First Taught Us Sola Scriptura This post was actually borne out of a couple of discussions I’ve been having lately […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 11, 2008 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Southern Baptist Convention
“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 […]