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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…

  • 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…

  • 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…