By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 7, 2009 in Quotes
Let the old saints be our example. They came to the Word of God and meditated. They laid the Bible on the old-fashioned, handmade chair, got down on the old, scrubbed, board floor and meditated on the Word. As they waited, faith mounted. The Spirit and faith illuminated. They had only a Bible with fine […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 6, 2009 in Marcus Borg
If you think the following from Living Spiritual Teacher and “Progessive Christian” scholar Marcus Borg is even remotely a Christian testimony, then you’d better think again: I affirm, along with many others, that the major enduring religions of the world are all valid and legitimate. I see them as the responses to the experience of God in the various […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 6, 2009 in AM Missives, Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Features, Rob Bell
For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. (2 Timothy 4:3-4, ESV) Has Evangelicalism Embraced A Gnostic Position On The Nature Of Unregenerate Man? […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 5, 2009 in Theology
Courtesy of Monergism.com this is chapter 11 from the book, Finally Alive by John Piper where he discusses: how regeneration, faith in Christ, and love for people relate to each other. And what will make all the difference is whether you see it for yourselves in the Word of God, not whether you read what […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 5, 2009 in AM Missives, Homosexuality/"Christian"
Ok, so here’s the scoop; back in January of 2006 in the piece Brian McLaren on the Homosexual Question: Finding a Pastoral Response the leading Guru of Emergence Christianity whispered: I hesitate in answering “the homosexual question” not because I’m a cowardly flip-flopper who wants to tickle ears, but because I am a pastor, and pastors have learned […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 5, 2009 in Devotions
“For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass from the Law until all is accomplished.” (Matthew 5:18) In considering our obligations to the divine Scripture, two other major obligations are crucial for the Christian. First, he must defend the Word of God. We […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 4, 2009 in Current Issues, Theology
Even as one who holds to the Biblical Reformed doctrines of grace it is still surprising how fast and how far this apostasy within mainstream evangelicalism is spreading. And with it a myriad of aberrant and heretical offshoots, one of which that’s gaining increasing popularity within the nearly spiritually comatose spiritually evanjellyfish is Open Theism (OT). A particularly […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 4, 2009 in Homosexuality/"Christian"
DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA! Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. (1 […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 4, 2009 in Current Issues, Homosexuality/"Christian"
DOWN WITH SOLA SCRIPTURA! For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, and in the same way […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 4, 2009 in Devotions
But when Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him, he took the vail off, until he came out. And he came out, and spake unto the children of Israel that which he was commanded. (Exodus 34:34) It is written of Moses that he “went in before the Lord to speak with him…and he […]