Percy Gutteridge
One of my two fathers in the Lord, Pastor P.H.P. (“Percy”) Gutteridge, was born this day, September 26th, in 1909. I was speaking with my friend Brian Fettes from Calgary, Alberta, today, and we both marveled that Percy has been in the presence of Jesus for thirteen years already.
Some of my readers knew Percy well; others, not at all (except perhaps through his writings found on FinestOfTheWheat.org and his audios both there and on this site in the Grains from Gutteridge podcast). An overview of his life is told by his son and daughter-in-law, John and Ann Gutteridge, in their Brief Timeline of the Life of P.H.P. Gutteridge. Another son, Peter, relates some humorous and poignant anecdotes in [click to continue…]
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Pastor Ray Greenley called this evening and has asked me to speak at The National Prayer Chapel in Woodbridge, Virginia again this Wednesday evening, September 28, at 7:30 PM. I hope to see many of you NPC members at this mid-week meeting. For others of you who will be visiting, see this map link for location details.
I always enjoy meeting with the saints at NPC, but this visit will be special. Lord willing, this week Pastor Ray and I will be laboring together Tuesday through Thursday to launch “Rev. 2.0″ of the National Prayer Chapel website, complete with videocasts, podcasts, and regular blogs. We’ll probably burn a lot of midnight oil, but the end result will be a quantum leap beyond the current site.
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Hymns seem to be the most natural expression of my heart in worship before God, so making three hymn-related discoveries in one week (and on nearly the same day) made last week memorable.
Open Hymnal Project Logo
- Discovery #1: It would take too long to describe how I made the first discovery, which was the existence of a website called the Open Hymnal Project. (Suffice it to say it had something to do with my Xiphos Bible study software. If you need a good, free, open-source Bible program, explore the possibilities that Xiphos provides at http://xiphos.org.) The Open Hymnal Project is a labor of love by Brian J. Dumont, providing not only the lyrics of hymns (like we do in the Powerful Poetry section over at FinestOfTheWheat.org), but free, copyright-free [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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A closeup from Gustave Doré's Illustration of Nehemiah Viewing the Ruins of Jerusalem. (Click the image to view the complete illustration.)
Show Notes for Grains from Gutteridge Episode 003:
Pastor Percy Gutteridge’s description of this message:
Why can we trust in the Lord at all times? Because He is the Truth and ever speaks the truth, and fulfilled prophecy bears this out:
- Jeremiah’s prophecy of the Jewish captivity;
- Daniel’s recognition of its fulfillment;
- Isaiah’s prophecy two hundred years before the birth of Cyrus the Persian, that he would be the man to restore the Jews to Jerusalem;
- Ezra’s and Nehemiah’s parts in doing this work.
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A Song Singing Me
Way back in the mid-1970s, my friend and co-pastor at Bethesda Fellowship, Terry Haugh, would often testify, “I woke up this morning with a song singing me.” This was his apt description of a phenomenon I’ve often experienced. Happy are the mornings when, as I awaken, even before I’m fully conscious and alert, I realize that the words of a particular hymn are being raised to God in my spirit. It’s often a way that the Holy Spirit [click to continue…]
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Show Notes for Kernels of Wheat Episode 005: The Septuagint (LXX)
Teaching and Bible study notes by Jim Kerwin
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Interview on Stewardship Weekly
Among those leaving comments this week 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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One great thing about attending any school — you make friends and connections with fellow students, whatever the subject. I graduated from Cliff Ravenscraft’s Podcasting A to Z course last month. A new friend, Brother Glen Steinson from Ontario, Canada, graduated from the May Podcasting A to Z course, and with both of us called to online ministry, the connection was made. (By the way, Cliff, the host of PodcastAnswerMan.com, has just posted — free! — a two-hour overview of how to podcast. Check out www.LearnHowToPodcast.com. If you wind up signing up for his Podcasting A to Z course, tell him Glen and I sent you.)
I went through the entire backlog of Glen’s Stewardship Weekly podcast, because I found that it’s worthwhile. A few episodes ago, he asked for folks to volunteer some financial testimonies. Poor Glen! Nobody else volunteered (at least to this point), so he was stuck with me when [click to continue…]
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Our thanks go out to Fellowship member Wanda Hilyer, who unearthed an appropriate commemoration hymn for the tenth anniversary of the 9/11/2001 attack. Based on Psalm 33:12, Georgia Elliott’s hymn, The Blessed Nation, offers a wealth of Scriptural allusions, and its refrain reminds us of the chief requirement for Divine blessing on this or any nation:
How blessed is the people
Whose God is the Lord!
Read the hymn here.
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Episode 004 – God Is Light (1 John 1:5)
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)
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