By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 22, 2009 in Quotes
The Church at this moment needs men, the right kind of men, bold men… We languish for men who feel themselves expendable in the warfare of the soul, who cannot be frightened by threats of death because they have already died to the allurements of this world. Such men will be free from the compulsions […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 21, 2009 in Quotes
If Christianity is to receive a rejuvenation, it must be by other means than any now being used. If the Church in the second half of this century is to recover from the injuries she suffered in the first half, there must appear a new type of preacher. The proper, ruler-of-the-synagogue type will never do. […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 19, 2009 in Quotes
[T]he evangelical movement imploded because it nurtured its own deficiencies. Neo-evangelical principles ultimately eradicated historic evangelicalism, and those of us who are paleo-evangelicals frankly have no movement that we really belong to… I haven’t even given you a single quote from Lloyd-Jones’s book What is an Evangelical? So let me strongly recommend again that you […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 19, 2009 in Quotes, Theology
In recent years there has been a lot of chatter about various “models” of the atonement that have appeared in the history of the church: the penal substitution model, the Christus Victor model, the exemplary model, and so forth. The impression is frequently given that today’s Christians are free to pick and choose among these […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 16, 2009 in Quotes
Men tell us that our preaching should be positive and not negative, that we can preach the truth without attacking error. But if we follow that advice we shall have to close our Bible and desert its teachings. The New Testament is a polemic book almost from beginning to end . . . . It […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 15, 2009 in Quotes
An almost Christian, if we consider him in respect to his duty to God, is one that halts between two opinions; that wavers between Christ and the world; that would reconcile God and Mammon, light and darkness, Christ and Belial. It is true, he has an inclination to religion, but then he is very cautious […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 15, 2009 in Quotes
If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been crucified. Leonard Ravenhill
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 7, 2009 in Quotes
When you don’t even lay down clear doctrine at the level of the Gospel, where are you going to go from there? And the cry is, as one man said to me when my book on The Gospel According to Jesus came out, he said, “Your book is divisive!” You want to know something? He’s […]
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 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 […]