By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 2, 2009 in Quotes
Unrenewed persons find fault with God’s justice. Eternal punishment they cavil at; hell is such a bugbear to them, that, just as every culprit will, of course, find fault with the prison and the gallows, so they rail at the wrath to come, though that wrath is just as sure, notwithstanding all their objections to […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 2, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt. (Genesis 19:26) Almost Saved, But Not Quite… Pastor Doug Pagitt, a leading voice in the evangelical Emergence rebellion against Sola Scriptura along with his friends such as Phyllis Tickle and the Elvis of Emergence Rob Bell, shares an email he received the other […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 1, 2009 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity
Republished from the Christian Research Net, which is an outreach from Apprising Ministries: So when one doesn’t have the anchor of God’s Word as the final authority to judge highly subjective “feelings” concerning what a person believes then we’ll wind up heading where this pastor is drifting and Giving Up Certainty: Doubts don’t arise from fear, but […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 28, 2009 in Current Issues, Features, Homosexuality/"Christian", Jay Bakker
Ya know, it’s not always easy in the lives of those preaching their doctrines of demons. Jay Bakker, pastor of the goat herd at Revolution Church, has already told us about a personal chat he had with the LORD God Almighty Who apparently has confided in “pastor” Jay that He’s now changed His mind about the practice of […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 28, 2009 in Theology
In this post from his interesting series on misquoted Bible verses, built around a video clip of Dr. James R. White of the fine Christian work Alpha & Omega Ministries, my friend and brother in the Lord Daniel Chew tells us: John 3:16 is one of the most misquoted verses in the Bible. From a […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 28, 2009 in Current Issues
As I stated in The New Evangelicalism And Its Bohemian-Style Emergent Church, it’s just a matter of time before those in the Emergence against Sola Scriptura that are hitting the bong finally ‘fess up like the man in the following story “testifies” for the Lord. Within that post I also pointed out that, from my days in a reggae band with […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 27, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Roman Catholicism, Southern Baptist Convention
As a former Roman Catholic whom in His mercy and grace the Lord delivered from its spiritual bondage into the glorious liberty of the sons of God—and this through absolutely zero effort or seeking Him on my part—I know very well what soli Deo gloria means. And the Roman Catholic Church ain’t even in the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 26, 2009 in Quotes
Truth wears well. Time tests it, but it right well endures the trial. If, then, I have spoken the truth, and have to suffer for it for the present, I must be content to wait. If also I believe the truth of God and endeavor to declare it, I may meet with much opposition, but […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 26, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features
In his 2007 sermon A Nation Abandoned by God Dr. John MacArthur, one of the finest teachers of the Bible in our gelatinous generation, says: One of the most tragic scenes in the Bible and yet one of the most familiar to us is the scene of the strongest man who ever lived, a man […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 26, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Roman Catholicism
For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery… You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth? This persuasion is not from Him Who calls you. A little leaven leavens the whole lump. (Galatians 5:1, 7-9, ESV) Filed Under: Just How […]