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Category: Art

  • Cavern of the Bells: A Parable

    Cavern of the Bells: A Parable

    “The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface…” — Genesis 1:2  At first, it seemed there was no sound or light of any kind. But as my senses adjusted, I heard a faint tinkling of bells. Straining my eyes, I saw tiny patches of light scattered…

  • Fixing Saint Paul, Scene 1: Awakening Barnabas

    The Story Acts 13:13 Paul and his companions then left Paphos by ship for Pamphylia, landing at the port town of Perga. There John Mark left them and returned to Jerusalem. The Backstory Scene 1: Awakening “Barnabas? Are you awake?” Barnabas rolled over on his cot to gaze at the…

  • Mrs. Charming’s Castle, Act I

    The gnomes invaded the continent almost exactly one year after Prince Kit Charming married Cinderella, now known as Princess Ella. “My son,” said the King. “While I gladly gave you a year to enjoy life with your beautiful bride, It is now time for you to take on the duties…

  • Body Talk

    Is it true? Christ on the cross, sacrificing his body for the sake of the world. He was only doing what he saw His Father doing.

  • A Few Words With The Old Man

    We walk along the shore to our favorite fishing spot.  I walk on the sand. He walks on the water…

  • Falling Up

    I am falling, falling. It is neither hot not cold, I feel nothing. I see nothing. Just falling, falling. Down, down, down… I wake up. I am lying on my back in a field of wild grass. The smell of earth fills my nostrils. The air is warm, springlike. The…

  • Wrestling with God’s

    Wrestling with God’s

    Originally written 10:35 PM Friday, September 25th, 2009 Genesis 32 – Passage Lookup – New Century Version – BibleGateway.com Joshua 5 – Passage Lookup – New King James Version – BibleGateway.com [It is dark.  I am alone.  Everything I have and love has been sent ahead of me. In the morning, I…

  • Redemption: A Vision in Many Pieces

    Redemption A Vision in Many Pieces Ernest Prabhakar June 8th, 2001 “God, its too big for me to carry!” “I know, my son.” We sat at the bottom of my heart, facing the dark, concrete-like slab which was my need for love, my desire for human intimacy to the fill…

  • Song: That’s Grace

    Part 2 of the Guilt-Grace-Gratitude musical trilogy, from my 1996 meditations on The Grace Cycle.

  • Song: From Guilt to Grace

    The following song is a lyrical version of “Graphical Theology: The Grace Cycle“, part of my burst of artistic exploration in 1996. It was the first element of a trilogy on the Reformation themes of Guilt-Grace–Gratitude, but unlike the other two I never was happy enough with it to put…

  • If Only In My Youth

    If Only In My YouthIf only I had known you     known you, truly known you If only I had known you in my youth…

  • Song: No Longer Alone

    This is a song I wrote back in 1996 in my post-college, pre-Apple days in Pasadena, California. It was for a girl I knew — heck, it fit pretty much all the girls I hung out with and/or was interested in during that decade. I also sang it during a…

  • Unforgiven: A Testimony in Three Persons

    I’m in the process of cleaning up my “personal” site on DrErnie.com, and as part of that I’m moving some of my earlier writings to this site. To start with, I present “Unforgiven”, a more-or-less accurate transcript of the first time God really dealt with me about anger… Unforgiven A…

  • Good News for Modern Nerds

    The Nerd Bible (pdf) started with my sermon notes from 1985 at Park Street Church in Boston, where I was an MIT sophomore…

  • This is my blog…

    This is my blog on Wordle.

  • Oh, Holy Knight?

    Oh, Holy Knight? 1:30 AM, Saturday, December 22nd, 2007 Part I: The Meeting I ride up to the inn, both nervous and excited.  I have little experience of inns, but clearly it was built for more travelers that it now contains.  As I enter the courtyard, I spy a young…

  • Samuel Jacobson, Seeker of Knowledge – Part 2

    Samuel Jacobson, Seeker of Knowledge – Part 2

    I am the one who has come down from heaven to reveal the things of heaven, but I am also the one who must be lifted up to return to heaven, that all may see me and know the way to eternal life.’I lay there a long time, weeping –…

  • Samuel Jacobson, Scribe of Nicodemus – Part 1

    Samuel Jacobson, Scribe of Nicodemus – Part 1

    Not that this lying rabble rouser deserved any better, but it was brutally unfair that gentle Nicodemus had to carry out the dark deed.When he left that night for the encounter, he looked like a man carrying his own cross to a Roman execution.

  • O Love That Will Not Let Me Go

    Which made me think of this hymn…O LOVE THAT WILT NOT LET ME GOGeorge MathesonO Love that wilt not let me go,I rest my weary soul in thee;I give thee back the life I owe,That in thine ocean depths its flowMay richer, fuller be.O light that followest all my way,I…

  • The Kingdom of Love, Take 1

    We had the immense privilege of hearing from Bob Mumford, who actually founded our church many years ago. He is a deeply insightful speaker — and has been to hell and back since then — so it was a deep privilege to have him share directly from his heart.In trying…