By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 25, 2009 in AM Missives | Comments Off on EVANGELICALISM POWERED BY MAN AND NOT BY THE HOLY SPIRIT
But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of His mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, Whom He poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that, having […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 23, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features | Comments Off on TONY JONES ON SEEKING WHO WAS/IS JESUS
The more I’ve observed Tony Jones, a leading theologian in the Emergence rebellion against Sola Scriptura, the more he reminds me of someone I knew in school. Glen was what we might call an instigator. He was very good at getting others to do things he would suggest in order to see how far the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 19, 2009 in AM Missives, Emergence Christianity | Comments Off on THE EMERGENCE OF POSTMODERN APOSTLES OF UNBELIEF
DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA! A wise man scales the city of the mighty and brings down the stronghold in which they trust. (Proverbs 21:22, ESV) Evangelicals Swallowing Reimagined Regurgitated Liberal Theology From Seducing Spirits As this apostasy continues to spread, it’s past time for the Body of Christ to return from an empty excursion to Wonderland […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 31, 2009 in Current Issues | Comments Off on CHRISTIAN BAND FAMILY FORCE 5 ON HOW TO BECOME A CHRISTIAN
The following email concerning the Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) scene, and more specifically the Christian band Family Force 5, was sent to Apprising Ministries and is published here by permission of the young person who wrote it. As a pastor I felt led to post it because it speaks so loudly and clearly to the detrimental […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 27, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergent Church | Comments Off on HUMAN DEPRAVITY AND TONY JONES
But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many! Again, the gift of God is not like the result of […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 25, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Features | Comments Off on RICHARD ROHR: CONVERSATIONS, CONVERGENCE AND EMERGENCE APOSTASY
The Center for Action and Contemplation (CAC) wants you to mark March 20-22, 2009 on our calendars for the CAC sponsored Conversations, Convergence and Action (CCA). The CAC website encourages us: Come to the first large gathering of Roman Catholic, Mainline Protestant, Evangelical, and other Christians seeking to explore this emergence and convergence together. You’ll […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 21, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Features, Rob Bell | Comments Off on THE EMERGENCE GOSPEL OF GOOD DEEDS
If you still think that this reimagined and repainted inclusive squishy social gospel of good deeds preached by postliberals like Rob Bell is something new; you’d better think again. Here’s J. Gresham Machen from his book Christianity & Liberalism written in 1923: But if Christianity be directed toward another world; if it be a way […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 10, 2009 in Rob Bell | Comments Off on ROB BELL ABUSING THE GREEK AGAIN
Over at the Apprising Ministries outreach Christian Research Net Dave Marriott of Seeing Clearly informs us: Andy Naselli points out Rob Bell’s abuse of the original language in his Nooma 16. Naselli continues: “This is not an isolated example. When Bell talks about ancient history, customs, language, etc., he not infrequently undermines his credibility.” See […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 17, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features | Comments Off on DON'T BE FOOLED BY THOSE WHO ONLY SAY THEY LOVE SCRIPTURE
But He 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’… If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.” (Matthew 4:4; John […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 6, 2008 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergent Church, Features, Rob Bell | Comments Off on DOCTRINES OF SPIRITISM AND ROB BELL
The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. (1 Timothy 4:1) Drinking Deadly Deception From The Poisoned Well Of Murky Mysticism One Sunday morning recently Rob Bell, an icon in the postliberal cult of the Emergent Church and teaching pastor at Mars Hill Bible […]