By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Dec 26, 2009 in Quotes
Christ lives, and we must be careful to give more heed to the word of God than to all the thoughts of men and angels. Martin Luther HT: Pirate Christian Radio
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 30, 2009 in Quotes
The brilliance of the gospel light is dimmed by error. The clearness of the testimony is spoiled when doubtful voices are scattered among the people, and those who ought to preach the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, are telling out for doctrines the imaginations of men, and the inventions of the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 27, 2009 in Quotes, Roman Catholicism
Need we be concerned about all of this [in Vatican II]? Ought we to be rejoicing that there is a new approach to Roman Catholicism? Should we not all be rejoicing in the fact that it is possible for us all to stand together as Christians over and against Communism? That is the question you […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 26, 2009 in Quotes, Roman Catholicism
JOHN ANKERBERG: Now, Dr. John MacArthur, when we met together, we agreed that the ECT document, the “Evangelicals and Catholics Together” document was attempting to join Roman Catholics and Evangelical Protestants together as “cobelligerents,” the word the Francis Schaeffer coined “working at the grass-roots level” in terms of social issues. And we were going to […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 25, 2009 in Quotes, Roman Catholicism
The one thing that the spirit of tolerance of our day cannot tolerate is intolerance, because relationships have become more important than truth. Now what’s at stake here, if I understand the New Testament where the Apostle Paul writes the Galatians and says, “If anybody, anybody, if it’s Peter, if it’s Barnabus, if it’s an […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Nov 11, 2009 in Quotes
Error, indeed, is never set forth in its naked deformity, lest, being thus exposed, it should at once be detected. But it is craftily decked out in an attractive dress, so as, by its outward form, to make it appear to the inexperienced (ridiculous as the expression may seem) more true than truth itself. Irenaeus, […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 25, 2009 in Quotes
It is better to be divided by truth than to be united by error. Martin Luther HT: Pirate Christian Radio
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 17, 2009 in Quotes
The Church of Christ is continually represented under the figure of an army; yet its Captain is the Prince of Peace; its object is the establishment of peace, and its soldiers are men of a peaceful disposition. The spirit of war is at the extremely opposite point to the spirit of the gospel. Yet nevertheless, […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 12, 2009 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Quotes
You can see these people in the cults and the occult if you have any degree of discernment at all because they are outside the church. But how do you see the Presbyterian, Baptist, Methodist, Lutheran, Episcopalian professor of theology? How do you get him in a place where you can find out his theology […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Sep 6, 2009 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Quotes
Verbal inspiration means that the process of inspiration applies to the very words used in the biblical books. It does not mean that God mechanically dictated the words of the Bible, but that those words express the thoughts that God intended, and, being correctly interpreted, are free from errors of fact, doctrine, or judgment. The […]