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Live Call-In Radio Starts March 1st!
Mark you calendars! On March 1, 2012 the National Prayer Chapel launches Pilgrim’s Progress, a weekday radio program on WAVA-AM radio in the Washington, D.C. Metro area. Pastor Ray Greenley not only returns to the airwaves, but returns to a live, call-in format.
Isn’t Pilgrim’s Progress “just a story”? No, it’s meant to be much more than entertainment. The Pilgrim’s Progress radio show will be a daily guide for the journey from death to life, from this world to that which is to come. Join us Monday through Friday from 1 PM to 2 PM to share together the journey towards the Celestial City!
Live, Streaming Video: Something new will be added—live, streaming video of the broadcast. Thanks to our technical guru, Kwashi Zilevu, the stream will be available here on NationalPrayerChapel.com from 1 PM to 2 PM every weekday.
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Jim Kerwin’s Show Notes for Kernels of Wheat Podcast
Episode 010 – That Uncomfortable Word – Part 2
Reviewing the Article So Far
Most of the “notes” for this week can be found in the online article entitled That Uncomfortable Word–Conviction!
- What is sin? Sin is anomia–lawlessness, to be outside of God’s revealed Law (1 John 3:4).
- The Questions We Seek to Answer:
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Episode 009 – That Uncomfortable Word
Very uncomfortable indeed...
Introduction
“Sinning Christians” (an oxymoron) aren’t entirely responsible for being careless about continuing in sin, since they came in under a “gutted Gospel,” one that omits not only taking up one’s cross to follow Jesus, but also omitting the key Gospel element the Holy Spirit uses to expose sin and convict of it.
Key Scripture from 1 John:
What is sin? 1 John 3:4 defines what sin is—”Sin is anomia” [click to continue…]
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Episode 008 – Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire! (1 John 1:6-2:6)
Recycled-Tin Artwork by Jenny Fillius at jennyfillius.com. (Click on image for full link.) Website image used by permission. Original is currently being used by the Seattle City Department of Cultural Affairs.
To get the most out of this ongoing Bible study:
Read through 1 John once a week.
Review and Context:
- Walking with or before God = being pleasing to God
- “I write these things to you that you may not sin.” (1 John 2:1)
- The blood of Jesus Christ continually cleanses us from inward sin IF we walk in the light.
The Heart, the Covenants, and “God Who Knows the Hearts”
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Show Notes for Kernels of Wheat Episode 007 – Walking in Freedom (1 John 1:6-7)
The Kernels of Wheat podcast
Teaching and Bible study notes by Jim Kerwin
Verse: 1 John 1:6
If we say that we have fellowship with Him
and yet walk in the darkness,
we lie and do not practice the truth;
- Lying about fellowship with God; poor excuses for Christians.
- If we say (or imply) that we are Christians – that is, that we live in close fellowship with God – but our lives and hearts say otherwise, that is a serious form of hypocrisy or lying.
- Walking in darkness is a description of the opposite of living in close communion with God.
- Walking in darkness is characterized by [click to continue…]
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Show Notes for Kernels of Wheat Episode 006: When Is Walking More Than Walking?
Teaching and Bible Study notes by Jim Kerwin. Passage for this episode: 1 John 1:5—2:2, focusing on “walking” in 1:6-7.
The Bible Concept of Walking
- How are we to understand “walk in darkness” and “walk in the light” in vv. 6-7?
- God’s original depiction of fellowship: Genesis 3:8-9: “…they heard the qol [click to continue…]
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Episode 005: The Septuagint (LXX)
Copy of a bust of Alexander the Great displayed in the Louvre
Interview on Stewardship Weekly
Among those leaving comments for episode #4 was Glen Steinson of the Stewardship Weekly podcast. Glen interviewed me for Stewardship Weekly, episode 13: Jim Kerwin Introduces Us to the God ‘E37.’
Two Bible Study Pointers to Help in “Rightly Dividing the Word”:
- You can’t know the whole counsel of God if you don’t read the whole counsel of God. That means one of the disciplines in which you should engage as a disciple is to read the Bible regularly, cover to cover.
- When you find an Old Testament quote in the New Testament, go back and read the quote in context in the Old Testament. Often the speaker or the writer is assuming that his original audience is familiar with the passage, and that they are making more “truth connections” as a result. But for those of you who do this, how do you account for the fact that sometimes the New Testament quote seems very different from the Old Testament passage?
God’s Sovereignty in His First Popular Bible Translation
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Episode 004 – God Is Light (1 John 1:5)
[Note to NPC listeners: We pick up our study of 1 John after a Christmas/New Year's digression.]
The revelations of God’s nature in John’s writings:
- The “I am…” passages
- The “God is…” passages
The “I Am” passages:
- Exodus 3:14–”I AM THAT I AM.”
- Jehovah/Yahweh as a derivative of the verb to be
- I AM the Bread of Life (John 6:35, 41, 48, 51)
- I AM [click to continue…]
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Jim Kerwin’s Show Notes for Kernels of Wheat Podcast Episode 012
Are You Fulfilling Bible Prophecy?
Are you helping to fulfill Bible prophecy by not reading the Scriptures regularly?
Prophecies You Don’t Want to Fulfill!
- Some Christians will fall away from the faith, drawn away by deceitful spirits, teaching of demons, and conscience-less liars — 1 Timothy 4:1-3
- The time will come [has come!] when some Christians won’t endure sound teaching, will want their “ears tickled,” and will turn their ears away from the truth — 2 Timothy 3:13–4:8.
- False Christs and false prophets will be bent on deceiving God’s people — Mark 13:21-23.
- The most sobering prophecy — the day when Jesus says to many of those who thought they were serving Him, “I never knew you; depart from Me.” — Matthew 7:21-23
Side note: The Adversary knows the Scriptures well, and can use them against you if
you don’t know them well. He had the audacity to attempt, unsuccessfully, to deceive Jesus in this way (
Matthew 4:3-11); what makes you think
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Episode 011 – The Original Aromas of Christmas
[Note to NPC website visitors: Yes, this is a jump from episode 3 to episode 11. We'll pick up the teaching series in 1 John after the first of the year.]
There's a reason why nobody talks about the 'aromas' of the first Christmas!
The Aromas of Modern Christmas–Modern Luxuries
In North American culture, we associate various aromas and fragrances with Christmas — pine boughs, “chestnuts roasting on an open fire,” pumpkin pie, roasted turkey, baked ham, yams, apple pie, hot chocolate, and egg nog.
The Original “Aromas” of Christmas–Dung and Urine
Luke 2:1-20–The story of the shepherds, the angels, and the stable
- Confusing a stable with a manger. (French: mange = eat; thus, a manger = a feeding trough)
- Children sing about the [click to continue…]
“Therefore every teacher of the law who has been instructed about the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house who brings out of his storeroom new treasures as well as old.” (Matthew 13:52)
They are “new treasures” (on our new website), but also “old” (because they were available in the last incarnation of the site). What is it that’s “new” and “old”? We’re making available once again the National Prayer Chapel sermon archives for 2010 and 2011 and all the individual episodes of the Springs of Living Water radio broadcasts from 2009 and 2010! How do you find them? Look at the menu above and you’ll see a new item: Message Archives –
How the archive messages appear in the navigation menu
Consistent with the site’s new features, each sermon and broadcast has its own audio player (like the new podcasts):
Each archived message has an individual audio player, like the new podcasts.
Dozens of messages are available already, and our goal is to have everything up and available by Christmas. Enjoy the “treasures”!
Pastor Jim
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Show Notes for Kernels of Wheat with Jim Kerwin
Episode #3: No “God Bag” Needed! (1 John 1:3-5)
The “God Bag”—a poor substitute for fellowship with the living God. (But thanks to Mark Sinclair anyhow!)
Teaching and Bible study notes by Jim Kerwin
Ongoing study suggestion: Read 1 John each week (the letter has only five chapters) and the Gospel of John each month.
Review from last week:
- Fellowship
- “What is man…?”
- A “God Bag”?!
My misconception of a “God Bag”
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Studies in the First Epistle of John with Jim Kerwin
Notes for Kernels of Wheat #2: Asking the Right Question (1 John 1:1-4)
Review from last week:
- Fellowship and koinonia.
- How would your life be different if you lived in unbroken, moment-by-moment fellowship with the living God?
What was God’s original intention? What was His end-goal?
- Repentance, confession, salvation, New Birth, sanctification, filling with the Spirit–all are necessary, all are commanded, but all are remedial and corrective in nature.
- What was God’s intention for us if there had been no Fall, no sin?
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Show Notes for Kernels of Wheat Episode 001: 1 John 1:1-3
Words We Think We Know: "Eternal Life" & "Fellowship"
Teaching and Bible study notes by Jim Kerwin
Author: Anonymous, but confirmed to be the Apostle John based on historical testimony of the early church and internal evidence (uses of words like Logos, beginning, “eternal life,” style similarity, etc.). Never names himself in his Gospel (“the disciple Jesus loved”) or his three Epistles (the “elder” or “old man” in 2 & 3 John)
Date: a.d. 85-95 (same range as all the Johannine scriptures, including Revelation)
Some of the focuses of the letter:
- What is God’s ultimate intention for us?
- What is eternal life?
- What is a true believer’s relationship with God? How do we walk in and deepen the relationship?
- What are the no-compromise characteristics of someone who is truly born of God?
- How do we [click to continue…]
Painting of Martin Luther
Sometimes we think “out loud,” and I guess it happens sometimes when we write, too. I sent an e-mail to my friend Glen Steinson about a free software add-on from the American Bible Society that allows webmasters to have an entire Bible passage pop up over their page. (You can try it by clicking on this link — 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18.) My friend and fellow ECA member Jerry Johnson of Christian Concourse Ministries had sent the information to me, and I found it so helpful that I wanted to share it with another Christian webmaster and podcaster; hence my e-mail to Glen.
But while writing the note to [click to continue…]
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Jim Kerwin, Bible Teacher for Kernels of Wheat
Show Notes for Kernels of Wheat Episode 000:
- Kernels of Wheat will be a weekly Bible-teaching podcast, lasting from 20 to 30 minutes each episode. It is a facet of the teaching ministry of Finest of the Wheat Teaching Fellowship, and appears on NationalPrayerChapel.com at the request of Pastor Ray.
- Our focus for the next few months, starting next week in Episode 001, will be a thorough exploration of the First Letter of John the Apostle.
- Scriptures referred to in this episode include:
- Amos 8:11-12—A famine of hearing the word of the Lord
- 2 Corinthians 2:17—The danger of hucksterizing God’s Word
- 2 Corinthians 4:1-2—Adulterating (watering down) God’s Word
- 2 Timothy 3:15—4:4—The important purposes of [click to continue…]
[Note from Pastor Ray Greenley: Over the last few years, the Lord has joined me in wonderful friendship and fellowship with Brother Jim Kerwin and his wife, Denise. Jim is called by God to be a Bible teacher, and he is one of those rare ministers who holds the Bible line on sin, righteousness, holiness, and especially the experience of the life of Jesus within; he has shared God's word with us in person on a number of occasions. I have asked Jim to share his thoughts on our National Prayer Chapel website. This is his first journal entry. Soon, perhaps as early as this week, his Kernels of Wheat podcast, which appears weekly on the KernelsOfWheat.com website, will be "re-broadcast" here on NationalPrayerChapel.com.]
Two More Songs Singing Me, by Jim Kerwin
Sunday morning, 9 October 2011
"Flowers Along the Occoquan," a photo taken during my Sunday morning prayer walk. (Part of worship is stopping to enjoy and give thanks for God's handiwork.)
Volunteering, as I have been, on the NationalPrayerChapel.com website over the weekend, has an unexpected perquisite—waking up each morning in Pastor Ray Greenley’s guest bedroom with a clear view of the thin golden hair of pre-dawn light silhouetting the horizon across the Occoquan River. After I’ve dressed in the dark and finished my hour of Scripture reading downstairs in the dining room, I can steal off for a prayer walk along the Occoquan.
Two songs have been “singing me” me this morning. (Those of you who have read my blog post, A Song Singing Me, will understand.) The first song arose within my heart from the moment my eyelids popped open, and second one was triggered in my spirit by the sight of [click to continue…]
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Show Notes for Springs of Living Water 001 – The Repentance of God, a message by Pastor Ray Greenley
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Key Scriptures:
- Exodus 17:1-13
- 1 Samuel 15:10-11
- 1 John 4:19-20
Grumbling and complaining will cause God to change the good plans He has for you. You are invited to break the habit of complaining, gossiping, or criticizing. You can start enjoying a whole new life in Jesus!
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Our goal is to have the site functional on October 1st and to have the site fully “road tested” by November 1st.
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