Category: Editorial
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The Headship of Christ
Slides from my sermon at Kingsway Community Church in San Jose, delivered on November 7, 2010. Also features very cute pictures of my new baby daughter, Anjali Ruth Prabhakar. Meditations on the role of the head in relation to the body. Explores how the headship of Jesus impacts the Body…
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How to Fix California
Our presentation How To Fix California is currently being featured on the SlideShare homepage by their editorial team.
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Growing Church Leaders final cover image
I hope to approve the final galley proof later today, which means it should be available for purchase at Amazon et al within a couple weeks. Expected retail price is $25 — not bad for a 200 page bible study.
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Introduction: The Road to Holiness
“Holy, Holy, Holy”: Growing Church Leaders Introduction: The Road to Holiness They [the four living creatures] do not rest day or night, saying: “Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, Who was and is and is to come!” — Revelations 4:8b I did not intend to write about holiness. My goal…
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Why Growing Church Leaders?
It is time for a revolution in how the church nurtures new leaders. As Jim Downing of the Navigators points out, Jesus trained his disciples by imparting: Knowledge, through teaching Character, by modeling and example Skills, through guided experience While knowledge can be learned anywhere, character and skills are best…
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Back Cover Copy for Growing Church Leaders
Growing Church Leaders is a way for those who are mature to train the next generation of leaders in their churches to think biblically, live wisely, and serve faithfully. This course is designed to help senior leaders guide a small group of faithful men and women in: * Memorizing Bible…
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Immigrant, Physicist, Storyteller, Transformational Christian
Autobiographical Blurb for the book jacket of Growing Church Leaders
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Marital Dispute Resolution Process
The goal of this process is to help you build the habits and trust necessary to safely and consistently resolve conflict in your marriage. Please review this together, then sign and date it. You are of course free to amend this by mutual consent at any time, but I encourage…
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About Growing Church Leaders
Growing Church Leaders is a tool for pastors and others in active ministry who want to nurture the next generation of leaders to: think biblically live wisely serve faithfully Each of those three topics is covered in a separate module of twelve lessons each. Every lesson includes: scripture to…
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Growing Church Leaders: Foundational Bible Studies for the Next Generation
Thanks to Andrew and others for their feedback on rebranding the LEAD class. My current best thinking is: Title: Growing Church Leaders Subtitle: Foundational Bible Studies for the Next Generation Volumes: Think Biblically Live Wisely Serve Faithfully I like the idea that we are encouraging existing leaders to teach a…
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Rebranding the LEAD Class
While exploring publication options, one key piece of advice that jumped out at me was to choose an appropriate title, since that influences keywords, URLs, and everything else that people will use to find a book. I’ve never been entirely happy with “Leadership Enrichment and Development” because of its extreme…
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Cleansing Streams Retreat Review
On November 13th and 14th, Sandhya I attended the Retreat portion of the Cleansing Streams Seminar. Since there isn’t a lot of information about this online, I thought I should document our experience. Plus, God did some significant things in my life that I want to memorialize…
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Thoughts on Sleep Training and the love of God
Dear brothers, Long time no write. I wanted to share some insights I’ve had about God’s Fatherhood based on what I’ve learned from doing Rohan’s sleep training, a la the Ferber Method: http://delicious.com/drernie/ferber We actually trained him (a couple times 🙂 last year, and he’s been sleeping great for over…
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Song: Gratitude
Part 3 of the Guilt–Grace-Gratitude musical trilogy, from my 1996 meditations on The Grace Cycle.
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State Estimation and The Meaning of Life
My friend Leland Brown recently found an amazing mathematical theory book called Optimal State Estimation: Kalman, H_infinity, and Nonlinear Approaches, by Dan Simon. In addition to being a great resource for a math problem Leland is working on, Appendix C turns out to have some fascinating meditations on the Christian…
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Introducing Joshua Rohan Prabhakar
Ernie and Sandhya are excited to introduce you to the newest member of our family…
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In Memory of Mahema Devadoss
Mahema Devadoss, writer-artist, passes away Though she was what society call “crippled”, she enjoyed life more thoroughly than anyone else I’ve ever known. I am proud to call her my aunt (technically, my mother’s cousin). Our prayers go out to her devoted husband (“Manohar Mama”) in his bereavement.
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In Memory of a Dog
On Easter – Sunday September 2nd, we will rejoice and praise God for her life that was full of unconditional love and devotion to her family.Good Bye our best friend – Lucy Queen Bee Prabhakar.
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Arche in Social Software
This technopost from India might fit better on my technology blog, but it so closely mirrored Bob Mumford’s definition of Arche (non-corporeal “entities in their own right“) I had include it here: The thing that makes social software behave differently than other communications tools is that groups are entities in their own right. A group of people interacting with one…
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My Brother Doc Prabhak
One of the reasons I often go by “Dr. Ernie” is that my family is full of “real” (medical) Doctor Prabhakars. That, and it is too hard to pronounce or spell! But my elder brother (and surgeon) Larry managed to acquire the hip-sounding nickname “Doc Prabhak” while chaperoning his son’s Kantorei choir trip. In the…
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