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  • The Pervasive Kingdom: A Bob Mumford Remix

    Enclosed are the annotated slides from my Pervasive Kingdom sermon at Kingsway Community Church on July 29th.

  • 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.

  • Confessing the Trinity – Doctrine 101

    Still, I decided to retype it here as an exercise.The Apostles’ CreedI believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of Heaven and EarthAnd in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our LordWho was conceived by the Holy Spirit,born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilatewas crucified, dead, and buried.He descended…

  • 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…

  • The Doctrine of the Trinity in History – Doctrine 101

    Rather than reading a book and filling out a worksheet, we are asked to: Listen to the audio file The Doctrine of the Trinity in History, taking notes.Produce an outline summary of the presentation.Submit your summary to your mentor.Thank God for the newly free A/V Controls in QuickTime player, which…

  • Proverbs 3:5-6 SOAP (Scripture Observation Application Prayer) for LDT

    In this case, it might mean that we are: trusting the Lord with a partial hearttrusting ourselves with our whole hearttrusting the Lord with our whole mind, not our heartleaning on our own understandingacknowledging God in some of our waysSound like anyone you know?Again, this isn’t in any way meant…

  • Proverbs 3 Miss Understanding

    More, we need to actively fear God’s punishment if we try to abuse that world for own selfish purposes.But this fear doesn’t weaken us, it strengthens us:It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.In fact, the more we give over to God, the better off we’ll…

  • God is Trinity – Doctrine 101

    What point is it making?The selected stanzas of the following Christmas hymn will help you think about the answer to question # 5.”The Incarnation”The great God of heaven is come down to earth,His mother a virgin and sinless His birth;The Father Eternal His Father alone;He sleeps in the manger; He…

  • ASK FOR IT by John Isaacs

    A Adoration and praise to God the FatherS Sins acknowledged and confessedK Know you are righteous in ChristF Forgiving others who have wronged youO Offering up petitions to GodR Request God’s will to be doneI Intimidate the Enemy with warfare prayerT Thanksgiving for all God has done and will doMost…

  • God is Self-Existent – Doctrine 101

    In your own words, write out a definition of what you think the expression “the independence, or the self-existence, of God” means.2.

  • God is Unknowable but Knowable – Doctrine 101

    Summarize the conclusions to the class discussion questions above.Doctrine 101: Learning about GodWorksheet 1 – Unknowable; KnowableGod is unknowableWhy did John Calvin say that God speaks to us in a kind of lisping?The emphasis is that God condescends to speak to us in a way we can understand, like a…

  • Leviticus 1-3 Sacrifice Play

    From this I presume that the children of Israel were already in the habit of bringing offerings, but were (at best) inconsistent in their quality: his offering [be] a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will…

  • A (Post-)Evangelical Missiology of Transformation

    You see, if we don’t get it that God is really on about spiritual, moral, and social transformation on all fronts and at all levels, then we will perpetuate across the globe the current Christian tragedy of my continent, namely Africa, where we have some 380 million professed Christians –…

  • 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…

  • Kingdom Equations, with Bob Mumford

    Our NALC West speaker Bob Mumford is on a bit of a physics kick, and thus presented his summary on the nature of God’s Kingdom using a series of pseudo-algebraic equations.

  • From Soul to Spirit, with Bob Mumford

    Specifically, I think he is tackling the question of:Why do devout, Bible-believing Christians often act — in all sincerity — in such un-loving ways?I’m sure I don’t need to give you examples of such behavior; we see it all the time in the media, and even the short history of…

  • DiaBlogue Finale 2: The Halting Problem

    For the record, I did not in any way mean to imply that any goalpost-shifting was intentional or malicious — or even that any anger involved was necessarily “irrational.”The specific bit of cognitive dissonance I’ve been trying to wrap my head around is that you appear to hold Christianity to…

  • DiaBlogue Aside: Open Questions on Desire Utilitarianism

    …these are not so much meant to negate DU as to point out that (as currently formulated, as far as I can see) it fails to address a great many important questions that are successfully addressed by other ethical theories (though to be fair, DU solves problems that those other…

  • GRACE: Unusual Strength by Philip John

    God gives us unusual strength – his supernatural ability to do so!Even though we took the ‘law into our own hands’ and did things our way the good news is that through Jesus, God has given us unusual strength to get out of whatever we choose to get out of!Scripture…