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  • 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…

  • Growing Church Leaders: Foundational Bible Studies for the Next Generation

    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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • LEAD! Part A, Revisited

    The LEAD! course format evolved considerably during the time I wrote it, especially in the first 3 months. We are working to publish it as a three-volume bible study, which means I need to go back and make the first few lessons consistent with the latter ones. So, I’ll try…

  • 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: Gratitude

    Part 3 of the Guilt–Grace-Gratitude musical trilogy, from my 1996 meditations on The Grace Cycle.

  • 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…