By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 29, 2012 in Current Issues, Devotions, Features, Quotes
We have nowadays around us a class of men who preach Christ, and even preach the gospel; but then they preach a great deal else which is not true, and thus they destroy the good of all that they deliver, and lure men to error. They would be styled “evangelical” and yet be of the […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jan 17, 2012 in Quotes
Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein. (Jeremiah 6:16) The longer I live the more I am convinced that the world […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Oct 24, 2011 in Current Issues, Devotions, Features, Quotes
O Christless man, you have pleasure, but it is only for a season. Laugh on if you will – your candle will soon be out. Your games, your dance, your social parties, will soon be over. There are no games in hell… Men must be brought down by law work to see their guilt and […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 6, 2011 in Current Issues, Features, Quotes
Myriads of professing Christians at the present day have not an idea of their own sinfulness and guilt in the sight of God. They flatter themselves that they have never done anything very wicked. They have never murdered, or stolen, or committed adultery, or borne false witness. They cannot surely be in much danger of […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Aug 1, 2011 in Current Issues, Devotions, Features, Quotes
[I]f the world will not come to Jesus, shall Jesus tone down his teachings to the world? In other words, if the world will not rise to the church, shall not the church go down to the world? Instead of bidding men to be converted, and come out from among sinners, and be separate from […]
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 25, 2011 in Current Issues, Features, 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 Jun 13, 2011 in Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Quotes, Theology
Open theism arose in evangelicalism over a decade ago when evangelicals posited a God to whom one can easily relate and who is manageable in place of a God who punishes sinners for their sin. This they did by proposing a model of Christ’s atonement that was not substitutionary. To do so they adopted the model of […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 10, 2011 in Current Issues, Features, Quotes
It is sad to find so many professing Christians who appear to regard the wrath of God as something for which they need to make an apology, or at least they wish there were no such thing. While some would not go so far as to openly admit that they consider it a blemish on […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Jun 8, 2011 in Current Issues, Features, Quotes
The Question, “What is Christianity?” has within recent years become one of the questions of popular interest of the day; it has actually attained a place upon the front pages of the newspapers and in the popular magazines. To many persons, indeed, the raising of the question seems to be a colossal piece of impertinence; […]