By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 21, 2011 in Current Issues, Quotes
He who does not hate the false does not love the true; and he to whom it is all the same whether it be God’s word or man’s, is himself unrenewed at heart. Oh, if some of you were like fathers you would not have tolerated in this age the wagon loads of trash under […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Apr 20, 2011 in Current Issues, Devotions, Features, Quotes
One of the fundamental differences between the [Roman] Catholic and the Reformed theologies is the question of the doctrine of the fall. Or, to put it in another way; of what is man capable of at the present time? Rome would teach that man is quite capable of storing up merit by a system of […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 24, 2011 in Current Issues, Features, Quotes
Any Christian worth listening to loves the cross and is loath to see it robbed of its glory. To ridicule what the cross accomplished is to make war with the heart of the gospel and the comfort of God’s people… No doubt, some Christians get worked up over the smallest controversies, making a forest fire […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 22, 2011 in Quotes
Fields plowed and sown, yet yielding no fruit! Machinery constantly in motion, yet all without one particle of produce! Nets cast into the sea, and spread wide, yet no fishes inclosed! All this for years—for a lifetime! How strange! Yet it is true. There is neither fancy nor exaggeration in the matter. Question some ministers, […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 15, 2011 in Current Issues, Features, 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 14, 2011 in Apologetics, Current Issues, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Quotes, Rob Bell, Theology
Have postmodern westerners just decided that hell is no more? Can we really just think the doctrine away? Os Guinness notes that western societies “have reached the state of pluralization where choice is not just a state of affairs, it is a state of mind. Choice has become a value in itself, even a priority. […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 10, 2011 in Current Issues, Devotions, Features, Quotes
Jesus Christ defeated Satan already on the Cross, and in the glory of the Resurrection. He is risen from the dead and is Son of God with power by resurrection from among the corpses. He has said, “All power belongs to Me, in heaven and in earth.” He has said, “Go into all the world […]
By AM on Mar 7, 2011 in Current Issues, Devotions, Emergence Christianity, Emergent Church, Features, Quotes, Rob Bell
Today [circa 1985], in the Christian world, we see a spectre rising in the greatest of all the [non-Christian] cults; it is the doctrine of universalism. Karl Barth taught it; neo-orthodoxy teaches it, it is the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees—and it reaches out—and Dr. Norman Vincent Peale [mentor to Robert Schuller] has become […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 4, 2011 in Current Issues, Features, Quotes, Theology
“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels… And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.” (Matthew 25:41, 46) [v. 41] “Then He will also say to those on His left, ‘Depart […]
By Ken Silva pastor-teacher on Mar 3, 2011 in Quotes
“For Christians to be linked in association with ministers who do not preach the gospel of Christ is to incur moral guilt. A union which can continue irrespective of whether its member churches belong to a common faith is not fulfilling any scriptural function. The preservation of a denominational association when it is powerless to […]