By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 21, 2008 in Quotes, Rob Bell
It’s interesting how many traditions (pause) When you read the great enlightened ones; meditation, centering prayer, reflection—in every tradition you can find the mystics—and what’s always at the heart of the spiritual lives, the everyday lives of the great ones was always a period of time. Whether it’s prayers, chanting, meditation, reflection, study—whatever you call it—what [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 18, 2008 in Devotions, Quotes
It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife.
(1 Corinthians 5:1)
The period in which we now live may well go down in history as the Erotic Age. Sex love has been elevated into a [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 17, 2008 in Quotes
The approbation of your fellow men you must not look upon as being the reward of excellence, for often you will meet with the reverse; you will find your best actions misconstrued and your motives ill interpreted. To be despised and rejected of men is the Christian’s lot.
Among his fellow Christians he will not always stand [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 10, 2008 in Quotes
Jesus says, “Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.” And one of His wise, old minsters once said, “The Bible sure does shed an awful lot of light upon those ol’ Bible commentaries.”
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 7, 2008 in Quotes, Richard Foster
This following subjective spiritual babble from Living Spiritual Teacher and Quaker mystic Richard Foster is not evangelical Christianity but yet this is the man your pastors turn to for their “Protestant” Spiritual Formation. Better wake up soon…
“The Immanuel Principle is ultimately cosmic,” according to Foster. “We are to reign with God and be with God forever and forever. In [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 7, 2008 in Quotes
When I graduated from a Sourthern Baptist seminary I was versed in Karl Barth,…and Jugen Multmann; all the German theology that closed every church in Germany. And it wasn’t until I got in the Bible that I realized that most of what I had learned was worthless. And so you get into God’s Word; you get—you want [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 4, 2008 in Quotes
To be entirely safe from the devil’s snares the man of God must be completely obedient to the Word of the Lord. The driver on the highway is safe, not when he reads the signs but when he obeys them.
A.W. Tozer, That Incredible Christian, 51
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 31, 2008 in Quotes
To be a Christian is to be a warrior. The good soldier of Jesus Christ must not expect to find ease in this world: it is a battle-field. Neither must he reckon upon the friendship of the world; for that would be enmity against God. His occupation is war. As he puts on piece by [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 28, 2008 in Quotes
Legalism is but the human cry for personal autonomy. Doing things our way as distinct from trusting God’s power is illustrated just as clearly in modern evangelicalism as it is in the narrative of the wilderness wanderings. The inclination toward self-righteousness is thus not a unique Jewish problem: it is endemic to the human condition, [...]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 27, 2008 in Quotes
(1) Don’t be distracted from your ministry to submerse yourself in bad doctrine and theology. Remember that bad theological company corrupts good theology.
(2) Don’t forget that those who do not know Christ are sons of the devil. They do the work of their father the devil (John 8:44). They are held captive by Satan to [...]