By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 4, 2009 in Quotes
There stands Caiaphas, his torn robe a fitting symbol of his redundancy, now that the great and everlasting high priest has come. There stands the Christ whom God introduced into the loins of Abraham and whose day Abraham rejoiced to see (John 8:56). Now his heart is broken by a heavy grief, broken by the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 3, 2009 in Marcus Borg
Well now, it sure looks as if we’ve discovered that the Progressive Christians of the Jesus Seminar and the new reformation of Emergence Christianity are not the only ones who are selectively and subjectively dealing the text of Scripture. Nope, it would seem that even Islam has their own emerging apostates. Of course genuine Christians know that the Quran did not […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 3, 2009 in Roman Catholicism
They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us. (1 John 2:19, KJV) It’s Way Past Time To Look At The […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 3, 2009 in Emergence Christianity
For those who don’t know mystic philosopher and postmodern [read: postliberal] theologian Peter Rollins informs us that he spends much of his time “as a writer, public speaker, lecturer and co-ordinator of the experimental collective Ikon,” which is: a Belfast-based collective who offer anarchic experiments in transformance art. Challenging the distinction between theist and atheist, faith and […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 3, 2009 in Quotes, Roman Catholicism
Therefore while we are unwilling simply to concede the name of Church to the Papists we do not deny that there are churches among them. The question we raise only relates to the true and legitimate constitution of the Church, implying communion in sacred rites, which are the signs of profession, and especially in doctrine. […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 3, 2009 in Emergent Church
The importance of poetry and novels is that the Christian life involves the use of the imagination, after all, we are dealing with the invisible. And, imagination is our training in dealing with the invisible, making connections… I don’t want to do away with or denigrate theology or exegesis, but our primary allies in this […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 3, 2009 in Current Issues
Below John MacArthur speaks to the question, “What do you think is the greatest threat to the Church in America?” As usual, his answer is dead on target…
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 2, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Devotions, Features
I am amazed that you are so quickly deserting Him who called you by the grace of Christ, for a different gospel; which is really not another; only there are some who are disturbing you and want to distort the gospel of Christ. But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 2, 2009 in Quotes
Very different is the use of the word “spiritual” in modern religious parlance. I have come almost to hate that word, so terribly is it being misused. It is constantly being used to designate a religious man, a man who has developed some supposedly peculiar religious faculty of his nature as over against other faculties. […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 2, 2009 in Roman Catholicism
This stunning news just in to the AM newsroom from Christian Newswire: A five foot apparition of the Virgin Mary appeared last month at the 2009 International Art Expo New York, inside the Javits Center. She appeared on a ten foot high carpeted wall. Mary’s face was very discernible as she stood with her arms in […]