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  • John Isaacs Sermon

    Exploring His Excellencies: His Wisdom 27:55 John Isaacs Kingsway Spoken Word 1 5/25/09 10:39 PM Exploring His Excellencies: Hi by John Isaacs Listen on Posterous Posterous test

  • Sermon: “Road to Joy” – A Boundaries Remix

    Presented at Kingsway Community Church on May 1, 2011 BoundaryRemix.ppt Download this file BoundaryRemix.pdf Download this file “Road to Joy” A Boundaries Remix Ernest Prabhakar KingsWay Community Church May 1st, 2011 ———————————————————————————————————————

  • Growing Church Leaders now on Amazon

    I should have mentioned this awhile ago, but I am very excited to have my new book available on Amazon.com <http://amzn.to/growchurch> in both softcover and Kindle editions. Amazon.com: Growing Church Leaders: A Study in Practical Holiness (9781449707620): Ernest N. Prabhakar: Books

  • 2010 in review

    The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is on fire!. Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 5,400…

  • 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…

  • How to Fix California

    Our presentation How To Fix California is currently being featured on the SlideShare homepage by their editorial team.

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Immigrant, Physicist, Storyteller, Transformational Christian

    Autobiographical Blurb for the book jacket of Growing Church Leaders

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • GCL A.6 Father’s Kingdom: His World, His Image

    The overriding theme of our journey has been exploring what it means to be “baptized into the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.” Having dealt (however superficially) with the ontological aspects of that “name”, we now focus on the narrative aspects. In particular, we will focus on the…

  • GCL A.7 Man’s Rebellion: His Law, Our Sin

    When God created the world, He gave us as humans dominion over all the plants and animals. But it was not an unconditional grant: rather, we have a responsibility to take His already “very good” creation to the next level, by filling the earth with His image. And if we…

  • GCL A.8 Christ’s Salvation: His Pain, Our Gain

    Our series so far — indeed, the first half of human history — is but a prelude to the coming of Jesus Christ. In Christ we have the word of God made flesh, the perfect revelation of God’s character, a tangible representative of the Trinity, and a reminder of what…

  • GCL A.9 Spirit’s Conviction: Connect, Chastise, Convey

    This week we move from the Father and the Son to the third person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit. This also continues our theme of God restoring His Image by saving us from our rebellion. And as usual, there is a heavy price to be paid…

  • GCL A.10 Soul’s Sanctification: His Call, Our Destiny

    In Which We Are Set Apart For Obedience And Suffering, To Become Holy This week we round out our discussion on salvation and conviction by focusing on sanctification and holiness, words that include both being “set apart” and “made righteous.” The overall idea is forming God’s character and purpose in…

  • GCL A.11 Christ’s Body: The Church

    In Which We Become the Church, As We Grow Into Christ Our Head Via His Gifts Continuing the theme of Sanctification, we explore how we are discipled into the name of Christ through His body — the Father’s principle vehicle for forming His Kingdom, by His Spirit. Specifically, we see…

  • GCL A.12 Christ’s Return: His Judgement, Our Reward

    In Which Christ Comes Back to Judge and Remake the Earth, and We Receive Our Reward The End. Christ’s Return is the completion of our theology. Faith will be made sight, all nations will bow before Him, and we will dwell in the fulness of the Father’s eternal presence as…