Radically Happy

Author: Dr. Ernie

  • Our Covenant with Cast Members

    Dear Participants: Thank you for being part of The Great Reset [also applies to Discipling By Jesus]. We want to honor your vulnerability at participating in this live stream, so please let us know if you are ever not comfortable with: Publishing the video, Answering a question, or Deviating from…

  • TRG-S6E3: All Creation Groans

    Join us on The Great Reset (via Zoom or YouTube Live at Tue Dec 15 1PM PST) as we wrestle with Ted’s challenge about how to love the whole world More Like Jesus. Question: Why did God place us in a world full of brokenness and pain? Perspective: So we…

  • Prelude to Reconciliation

    Type I Response I feel pain Someone just did something I see what they did wrong I blame them for my pain It is because they are broken I try to fix them They do not let me This implies they will cause me more pain I escalate or run…

  • TRG-S6E2d3: Teach Each Other

    Join us on The Great Reset (via Zoom or YouTube Live at Tue Dec 8 1PM PST) as we strive to discover how imperfect people can help each other Love More Like Jesus. Question: How can the Body of Christ come together to heal relationships, when the authority structures we…

  • TGR-S6E2: Loving the World as Jesus Does

    This week on The Great Reset, our Producer Ted Hahs shares his passion for loving the world (and each other) the way Jesus does. Q. How can we better recognize the awesomeness of the many people attempting great things for God? P: Providing a platform for them to share their…

  • TGR-S6E2d1: Family Time

    Q. How should we react when other people hurt us, or they claim that we hurt them? P. Seek to Ground our identity and security in Christ, so we can respond with curiosity and compassion rather than fear or anger When I feel threatened, my natural instinct is either fear…

  • TGR-S6E1: Season’s Greetings

    This week we begin Season 6 of The Great Reset, as well as a very unusual Advent Season capping off the unprecedented events of 2020!Question: Where do we go next?

  • Spiritual Kreb’s Cycle

    Human bodies run on carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins & minerals, water, and oxygen. What powers the Body of Christ?

  • TGR-S5E7: Jobs to Be Done

    For this week’s episode, we wrap up Season 5 of The Great Reset by attempting to address questions from last week using an updated Challenge Question, plus a more explicit leadership structure. Questions What must we do better for the Body of Christ to more effectively make disciples of our…

  • TGR-S5E6: Questionable Authority

    This week on The Great Reset, Ernie argues that his apparent incompetence and immaturity is actually part of a brilliant plan to demonstrate the need for more Christ-like models of authority. TED Summary In this document, Ernie: Claims the authority structures he grew up with were built around the Law…

  • TGR-S5E5: Better Next Time

    As followers of Jesus, we invite you to learn along with us every Tuesday at 1 PM on The Great Reset as we practice loving more like Jesus. Question: What should we focus on when something hurtful has happened? Perspective: Answering the question, “What do each of us need so…

  • TGR-S5E4: Abidience

    As followers of Jesus, we invite you to be transformed with us on The Great Reset (Tuesdays at 1pm) as we are led by His Word to love more like Jesus. Question: Should we be focused on obeying Jesus or abiding in Him? Perspective: That’s the wrong question. We need…

  • The Post-COVID Church

    Right now, most churches devote at least six-sevenths of their budget, staff, and attention to what happens on Sundays, and at most one-seventh to helping the congregation follow Jesus the other six days. Can you imagine what we might accomplish if we flipped that on its head, and invested 85%…

  • TGR Code of Conduct

    Draft 1, 29 Oct 2020, The Great Reset John 13:34 A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so also you must love one another. Galatians 6:1 Brothers, if someone is caught in a trespass, you who are spiritual should restore him with a…

  • TGR-S5E3: Shared Selah (DBS v2)

    As followers of Jesus, we invite you to learn along with us on The Great Reset (Tuesdays 1 PM Pacific) as we are discipled by scripture to love more like Jesus. Question: How can we all get better at obeying Scripture, instead of just discussing it? Perspective: By making time…

  • TGR-S5E2: Discipled By Scripture

    This week on The Great Reset, we invite you to learn along with us as we try out a new practice of being cooperatively taught by God. Question: How do we shift from intellectually studying God’s word to humbly obeying it? Perspective: By submitting ourselves to be Discipled By Scripture…

  • TGR-S5E1: ValueStorming

    We begin Season 5 of The Great Reset by building on last week’s Retrospective as we explore the values we must share in order to Love More Like Jesus. Question: How can we develop the trust needed to co-disciple each other’s hearts to follow Jesus? Perspective: Via the practice of…

  • TGR-S4E7: Loving More Like Jesus

    This week on The Great Reset the Biastes perform a retrospective on Season 4 by attempting to agree on a Purpose, and then evaluating their recent interactions in light of that Purpose. Purpose of The Great Reset (Draft) We are a community of Jesus-lovers who Come together to learn how…

  • TGR-S4E6: FBD-1 “Empowering Disciples”

    This week on the Biastes we will be attempting a “FishBowl Dialogue” between Ernie P. and David J. This blog post is Ernie’s attempt to organize his thoughts in advance, based on his current best guess about David’s underlying Concern. Tune in next Tuesday 9/29/2020 to find out what actually…

  • A Different Kind of Mask

    Thought for the Week “We are intensely attached,” Matthew Kelly observes, “to being perceived in a positive light, even by people we don’t know and … A Different Kind of Mask