By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 13, 2009 in Rick Warren
From The Orange County Register as cited at the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) website: Speaking to a crowd of nearly 8,000 Muslims at the Islamic Society of North America’s annual convention in Washington D.C., Saddleback Church Pastor Rick Warren called on Muslims and Christians to form an interfaith coalition to combat prejudice and stereotypes. […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 6, 2009 in Rick Warren
Washington Times brings us a secular persepective in the story quoted below concerning Warren’s latest violation of 2 Corinthians 6:14-15, which also shows immediately where Rick Warren jumps the track as a minister of the gospel: The Rev. Rick Warren, one of America’s best-known evangelical Protestant pastors, pleaded with about 8,000 Muslim listeners on Saturday night to work […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 5, 2009 in Rick Warren
Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness? Or what harmony has Christ with Belial, or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever? (2 Corinthians 6:14-15, NASB) My friend Steve McConkey told me today that he’s releasing the following Press […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 1, 2009 in Rick Warren
From Purpose Driven.com of Rick Warren we have this piece by David Pack who is: is a Grammy winning recording artist, producer, and music director. A member of Saddleback Church, he works with Rick Warren on special projects, including the PEACE Plan and AIDS & Worship Conferences. (Online source) In the article Pack describes how he […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 24, 2009 in Current Issues, Rick Warren
Steve Rabey, “an award-winning writer and an adjunct professor with Fuller Seminary,” conducts an interview for Purpose Driven.com with William “Paul” Young. Rabey calls his puff piece Finding Shelter in “The Shack”: How a repentant father’s story for his kids became a best-selling, life-changing phenomenon. You can read this interview by clicking here. See also: THE […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 7, 2009 in Brian McLaren, Current Issues, Quotes, Rick Warren
I’ve said this many times: I can listen to a guy preach—put anybody in front of me—and I’ll tell you what his view of Scripture is by what he says. If he doesn’t preach out of the Bible, I know what his view of Scripture is, I don’t care what he says. I don’t care […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 9, 2009 in Current Issues, Rick Warren
This report comes to us from OneNewsNow.com, which is not in any way, shape, or form, an online discernment and apologetics ministry: A Washington, DC, pastor and outspoken opponent of same-sex “marriage” says California mega-church pastor Rick Warren has done “tremendous damage” by apologizing for his support last fall of California’s marriage protection amendment… Warren […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 29, 2009 in AM Missives, Apologetics, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Rick Warren, Southern Baptist Convention
because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 13, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Rick Warren
Purpose Driven Pope Rick Warren has opened his mouth again in order to exhange feet at a Beliefnet piece called “Rick Warren’s Dark Night of the Soul.” That reference comes from the false teaching of a messed mystic called “St.” John of the Cross, who was a disciple of another duped defender of apostate Roman Catholicism “St.” Teresa of Avila. In […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 5, 2008 in AM Missives, Apologetics, Brian McLaren, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Dallas Willard, Emergent Church, Erwin McManus, Features, Joel Osteen, John Hagee, Marcus Borg, Richard Foster, Rick Warren, Rob Bell, Roman Catholicism, Southern Baptist Convention, Spiritual Formation, T.D. Jakes, Theology
A man-centered gospel is the belief that the determining factor in whether or not a man is eternally saved, in the end, relies (at some level) upon an act of his own will i.e. human decision. This is often called synergism because it is thought to be a cooperative effort between God and man. While […]