By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 18, 2009 in AM Missives, Brian McLaren, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features | Comments Off on LEONARD SWEET, DAVID SPANGLER, AND QUANTUM SPIRITUALITY
Lighthouse Trails Research offers us Chapter 11 of the book A “Wonderful” Deception by Warren Smith. It’s a must read if you want to understand things like Brian McLaren Of Emerging Church To Celebrate Ramadan. We are no longer surprised as Smith brings out the following: Sweet expresses his personal gratitude in [his book] Quantum Spirituality to […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 11, 2008 in Current Issues, Emergent Church | Comments Off on CONCERNING LEONARD SWEET OF THE EMERGING CHURCH AND CHRISTIAN EDUCATION
The email below is presented by Apprising Ministries to make you more aware of what’s going on in evangelical schools and is published with the permission of its author. What follows is an eyewitness account and personal testimony as to what they have seen thus far in their Christian education: A Chapel with Leonard Sweet Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the […]
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By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 22, 2009 in Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church | Comments Off on LEN SWEET AND "A JESUS MANIFESTO"
Emerging Church aka Emergent Church, now morphing into Emergence Christianity, theologian Leonard Sweet wants us to know that this A Magna Carta for Restoring the Supremacy of Jesus Christ a.k.a. A Jesus Manifesto for the 21st Century, written in conjunction with Frank Viola, “may be the most important thing I’ve ever written” See also: WRETCHED: BRIAN MCLAREN GOSPEL PREACHING […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 20, 2014 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features | 0 Comments
By Dr. Orrel Steincamp, The Plumbline Newsletter Archive When things get bad we groan. Sometimes a groan is audible, but at other times groaning is internal. In the last months, I have to confess that I learned to groan even audibly. In what seemed to me as a perfect storm, I succumbed to groaning. First it […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 15, 2014 in Current Issues, Features | 0 Comments
From time to time Apprising Ministries has covered issues touching on Calvary Chapel (CC) as a whole; particularly with its former leader, the late Chuck Smith. Unfortunately, in The Coming Roman Catholic Denomination And Chuck Smith Of Calvary Chapel, as a former Roman Catholic I had to show you his increasing sinful ecumenicism. And then on occasion I […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 30, 2012 in Current Issues, Features | 0 Comments
The following is originally published by Herescope and is republished here with permission: A number of years ago there was a joke circulating that went like this: Q: How can a man avoid falling hair? A: Jump out of the way! This is also a formula for avoiding heresy. One must “jump out of the way” whenever it comes near. […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 20, 2012 in Current Issues, Features | 0 Comments
I introduced you to Dr. James Merritt a bit ago in the Apprising Ministries piece Homosexuality And Jonathan Merritt. James Merritt is a former SBC president and Jonathan is his son. Dr. Merritt is senior pastor of Cross Pointe Church (CPC), where prior to admitting to a homosexual encounter, Jonathan Merritt was on staff as a consultant running […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 16, 2012 in Current Issues, Features | 0 Comments
The following is originally published by Herescope and is republished here with permission: The Cult of Evangelical Leadership, Part 2 Fat Cat[1] Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD unto them; Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle. (Ezekiel 34:20) Cash Cow: “A cash cow is a product or a business […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 4, 2012 in Current Issues, Features | 0 Comments
The following is originally published by Herescope and is republished here with permission: Sacred Cow[1] “Most errors in matters of faith are contagious and infectious; the reason is, because ordinarily an error is broached by some, and entertained by others, in satisfaction to some lust, as favouring some evil desire and inclination of our minds, and so […]