by Neil Silverberg | Apr 27, 2017
The night of my conversion, as I walked out of the building where the church service I had just attended was held and looked out at the familiar skyline of Miami, Florida, I uttered a statement from my newly born-again lips: “Everything looks new.” I had no knowledge...
by Neil Silverberg | Apr 24, 2017
Recently, it happened again. Eating a meal with a fellow pastor, I mentioned my belief that the most important theological issue facing the Church today is that of false conversion. The pastor’s reaction was classic. He just looked at me with a blank stare as if to...
by Neil Silverberg | Apr 21, 2017
Recently, and with little forethought, a word fell out my lips when speaking with a friend. What was this word that unguardedly fell from my lips? It was covenant and I was using it, not in the traditional sense of those covenants God has made with the human race and...
by Neil Silverberg | Apr 18, 2017
There’s far too much counseling going on in the church today. I don’t mean there is not a place for church pastors and elders to provide counsel when appropriate for those church members who need it. That is certainly an important part of pastoral ministry and...
by Neil Silverberg | Apr 11, 2017
“And he said, ‘This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father.’ After this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him” John 6:65-66 The sixth chapter of John contains an in-depth teaching of the Lord...