By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 24, 2009 in Quotes
When a man says he must develop a holy life alone with God, he is of no more use to his fellow men: he puts himself on a pedestal, away from the common run of men. Paul became a sacramental personality; wherever he went, Jesus Christ helped Himself to his life. Oswald Chambers
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 23, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features
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 21, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Southern Baptist Convention
“I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. The man who loves his life will lose it, while the man who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.” […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 21, 2009 in Devotions
“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.” (Matthew 5:4, NASB) Two critical determinants will tell if you are mourning over sin as Jesus commands. First, you will have a true sensitivity to and sorrow for your sins. Your prayer concern will be how your sin detracts from God’s glory, not how its […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 20, 2009 in Quotes
No more love to God is there in an unrenewed heart than there is life within a piece of granite. No more love to God is there witin a soul who is unsaved than there is fire within the depths of the ocean’s waves; and herein lies the wonder, that when we had no love to God, […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 19, 2009 in AM Missives, Emergence Christianity
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 Feb 14, 2009 in Current Issues
While taking at shot at, my friend and the founder of Christian Research Net, Ingrid Schlueter over at Bore’s Boar’s Head Tavern, possibly purposely, Lutheran priest Paul McCain first misrepresents her fine ministry Slice of Laodicea and then whines: I’m thinking that people who spend nearly every waking moment on a “crusade” to point out all that is wrong in the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 13, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues
Tony Rose, who is a contributor of the Apprising Ministries outreach Christian Research Net, now sheds some light as to why the circus churches of these new breed pastors, in what is becoming a cult of “church planters,” are so alike. It turns out that they’ve been preaching each other’s sermons. Rose begins his report: When it comes […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 12, 2009 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Features, Southern Baptist Convention
In a post today at the Founders Ministries Blog Tom Ascol shares his thoughts on Wade Burleson’s contention that “the administration of SWBTS planned to purge Calvinistic faculty in the name of economic cutbacks.” Ascol writes: I received numerous questions via facebook, twitter, email and old-fashioned phone calls about that accusation and the resultant denials […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Feb 12, 2009 in AM Missives, Devotions
“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until […]