By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jul 1, 2011 in Devotions, Features, Quotes
Reader, I ask you a plain question at the beginning of a New Year. Are you ready? It is a solemn thing to part company with the old year. It is a still more solemn thing to begin a new one. It is like entering a dark passage. We know not what the may meet […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 29, 2011 in Devotions
Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 21, 2011 in Current Issues, Devotions, Features
Let there be no mistake about my meaning. I am not examining what it costs to save a Christian’s soul. I know well that it costs nothing less than the blood of the Son of God to provide atonement, and to redeem man from hell. The price paid for our redemption was nothing less than the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 31, 2011 in Devotions
“His disciples remembered that it is written, ‘Zeal for your house will consume me.’” (John 2:17) This verse is a quote of Psalm 69:9 where the psalmist is crying to God because of the opposition he has endured from his enemies. The major reason that his enemies have a strong opposition to him is because […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 28, 2011 in Current Issues, Devotions, Features
There is a tendency, apparent at this present time, to think little of the conversion of individuals and to look upon the work of the Holy Spirit upon each separate person as much too slow a business for this progressive age. I am bold to assert that if ever we despise the method of individual […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 24, 2011 in Current Issues, Devotions, Features
No matter what the circumstances begin to look like as spiritual darkness continues to fall, and the days of evil come while this apostasy keeps spreading throughout man-centered evangelicalism, we who are in Christ will understand that the Bible is a supernatural Book. A truly amazing Book—written by the Spirit for our merciful Father in Heaven to […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 23, 2011 in Current Issues, Devotions, Features, Quotes
In one of his letters to Erasmus, Luther said, “Your thoughts of God are too human.” Probably that renowned scholar resented such a rebuke, the more so, since it proceeded from a miner’s son; nevertheless, it was thoroughly deserved. We too, though having no standing among the religious leaders of this degenerate age, prefer the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 20, 2011 in Devotions
Therefore thus saith the Lord, “If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth.” (Jeremiah 15:19) Poor Jeremiah! Yet why do we say so? The weeping prophet was one of the choicest servants […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 15, 2011 in Devotions, Quotes
Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts (Psalm 51:6). Sincerity is of utmost importance to a Christian. It is the sauce which seasons piety and makes it savory. Sincerity is the jewel that God is most delighted with. To speak plainly—all our pompous show of holiness, without this soul of sincerity to enliven it—is […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on May 12, 2011 in AM Missives, Current Issues, Devotions, Features
“I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy.” “I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for […]