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Show Notes for Grains from Gutteridge Podcast
Episode #10: The Heavenly Race

Summary:

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Percy Gutteridge

In 1 Corinthians 9:24-27 Paul takes as a pattern the Marathon footrace of the ancient Greeks, well known to and partly copied by the Romans. This is a stimulating message on the Heavenly Race.  Comfort and encouragement are given from the Scriptures and Christian experience. You will be surprised as to how much the epistles have to say about the Heavenly Race. This is an excellent message to listen to after you have seen the film Chariots of Fire.

Special Note:

This message was delivered as the commencement address at Living Faith Bible College in 1986.

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Guatemala Trip Log, Entry #1: 20 Days ‘Til Departure

Map of Guatemala

Map of Guatemala

In the grandest sense, my upcoming Bible-teaching missions trip to Guatemala became “real” when the round-trip ticket was purchased a few weeks back. But today it became real in a more personal sense – at the end of a hypodermic needle!

“I’m allergic to hypodermic needles.” At least, that’s what I tell all medical personnel within proximity of any sharp, pointy, flesh-piercing objects, even if I’m not the patient being scrutinized and diagnosed. (No sense taking chances!) So little sympathy do these folks have that they either laugh or roll their eyes; but my condition never gets me any mercy. You would think in this age of [click to continue…]

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Guest Spots on the Pilgrim’s Progress Radio Call-In Show on WAVA-AM 790

During the week of March 12th, Jim Kerwin was a guest on National Prayer Chapel’s Pilgrim’s Progress radio program, hosted by Pastor Ray Greenley.  If you’ve ever wondered what it looked like “behind the scenes” on a live radio broadcast, here are three examples.  (Note: Sound quality on these videos leaves something to be desired, due to the experimental nature of the patches into the live video feed.)

March 13, 2012

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Show Notes for Grains from Gutteridge Podcast
Episode #9: A Son or Daughter of God, a message by Pastor Percy Gutteridge

Summary:

Orpah returning as Ruth leaves with Naomi

Orpah returns as Ruth leaves with Naomi for Bethlehem Judah (from an illustration by Doré)

Starting in Ruth chapter 1 as he did in last month’s Grains from Gutteridge podcast, Pastor Gutteridge weaves in Peter’s report about the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at the house of Cornelius (Acts 11), and brings forth a helpful message about our adoption into God’s family.

Key Scripture passages:

  • Ruth 1
  • Acts 11:1-18
  • Micah 5:2
  • Ephesians 3:1-6
Hymn quoted: William Dunkerley’s In Christ There Is No East or West
In Christ there is no East or West,
In Him no South or North;
But one great fellowship of love
Throughout the whole wide earth.

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Show Notes by Jim Kerwin for Kernels of Wheat Podcast
Episode 020 - Do You Have Indoor Plumbing?

Water Pump and Bucket

Is this your experience of the Christian life, or do you have indoor plumbing?

Review of last week’s episode, What We Don’t Know About the ‘Anointing, the second installment in our study of 1 John 2:18-29.

Abiding

  • What is the significance of what we learned about ‘the anointing’ last week?
  • Do you have indoor plumbing?
  • Most Christians don’t have indoor plumbing, and find it hard to believe or even conceive that other people do!
  • Living water (John 4:1-42)
    • What does “living” mean?
    • The water becomes a “well springing up to eternal life” (v. 14)
    • An insignificant fact?
    • Left her waterpot (v. 28) — why is this small fact important?
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    Show Notes by Jim Kerwin for Kernels of Wheat Podcast
    Episode 019 - What We Don’t Know about “The Anointing”

    Strong's Concordance entry

    Part of a 'Strong's Concordance' entry on the word 'anointed'

    Review of last week’s episode, An Unhappy Heresy, the first installment in our study of 1 John 2:18-29.

    Study on the words anoint and anointing

    • No one in the New Testament ever prayed for “the anointing,” so why are so many Christians praying this way?
    • If orthodoxy is right belief, what the early Christians taught and believed, then..
    • Orthopraxy is right practice, that is, how the early Christians lived out what they believed.
    • In all the prayers we read in the Book of Acts, in Paul’s epistles, etc.—in other words, in any passage that would give us insight into New Testament orthopraxy—nobody ever “prayed for the anointing.” What was it that New Testament Christians understood that we don’t? [click to continue…]
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    Show Notes by Jim Kerwin for Kernels of Wheat Podcast
    Episode 018 – An Unhappy Heresy

    Review of Last Week — Loving the World = Spiritual Adultery

    Street-Corner Heretic

    If only all the heretics were this easy to spot!

    Historical setting of 1 John and 1 John 2:18-29

    • Response to heresy? What is heresy?
    • A belief or teaching that denies an accepted fundamental truth of the Christian faith, usually falling into certain categories:
    • Beliefs about God, e.g.,
    • The Holy Spirit is not a person, but an “it” or an “influence”;
    • The Persons of the Godhead are not co-equal and co-eternal;
    • There are many gods;
    • Human beings can become god.
  • Beliefs about salvation – basically that something else (works, for example) must be added to the work of Christ to gain heaven.
  • Beliefs about Christ – usually the major category.
  • Can’t study early church history without studying theology, and vice versa.
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    Show Notes for Grains from Gutteridge Podcast
    Episode #8: The Story of Ruth, a message by Pastor Percy Gutteridge

    Summary:

    Ruth gleaning in the field of Boaz

    Ruth gleaning in the field of Boaz (from a 19th Century illustration)

    In this message, Percy Gutteridge explains both the Biblical doctrine of redemption and Jesus’ role as our Kinsman-Redeemer.  Redemption’s part in God’s great plan of salvation is made made clear in the beautiful story of Ruth.

    Key Scripture passages:

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    Show Notes by Jim Kerwin for Kernels of Wheat Podcast
    Episode 017 – Why the Impossible Is Impossible

    Sign that reads "impossible"

    Not a "sign from God" (but just as obvious)

    Review of Last Week’s “Worldly” Word Study

    The Command in 1 John 2:15-17 and the Reason for It:

    • Don’t love the world-order or its things
    • If you love the world-order and its things, the love of God isn’t in you.

    All that is in the world-order” – what’s included in “all”?

    • The word for lust – Greek = epithumeia (noun) and epithumeo (verb)
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    Jim Kerwin’s Show Notes for Kernels of Wheat Podcast
    Episode 016 – If ‘God So Loved the World,’ Why Am I Not Allowed To?

    Picture of a confused man with questions.

    "Come again?"

    Review and Tie-Up of Last Week: 1 John 2:12-14

    A “Worldly” Word Study—A First Look at 1 John 2:15-17

    Different Uses of the Word World in the New Testament

    • κοσμέω (kos MEH oh, kosmeo –> cosmetics)
    • Pre-New Testament Greek:
    • setting troops in order
    • women “putting themselves in order”— clothing, make-up, etc.; adorn
    • regulating
  • New Testament Usage:
    • Put in order
    • (in the sense of trim): Matthew 25:7—Then all those virgins rose and trimmed their lamps.
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    015 Kernels of Wheat – Walking into Maturity

    January 19, 2012

    Jim Kerwin’s Show Notes for Kernels of Wheat Podcast Episode 015 – Walking into Maturity Review and Tie-Up of Last Week: 1 John 2:8-11 Three Levels of Maturity: 1 John 2:12-14 Little children (vv. 12,13) “Because your sins are forgiven you for His name’s sake” “Because you have known the Father” Fathers (vv. 13,14) “Because you have [...]

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    007 Grains from Gutteridge – Waiting on the Lord

    January 11, 2012

    Show Notes for Grains from Gutteridge Podcast #7: Waiting on the Lord Key Bible Passage: Isaiah 40:9-31 Note especially Isaiah 40:28-31 Key points: Waiting on the Lord is required to see true revival. Waiting on the Lord is the spiritual equivalent of physical renewal through eating, sleeping, etc. All celestial beings–angels, seraphim, cherubim– Derive their life [...]

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    014 Kernels of Wheat – A New Gift from Jesus

    January 10, 2012

    Jim Kerwin’s Show Notes for Kernels of Wheat Podcast Episode 014 – A New Gift from Jesus Reminder: Read through the First Epistle of John once a week Remember to substitute the phrase “the Anointed One” for Christ or Messiah for the next few weeks, to get in practice. This Week’s Passage: 1 John 2:6-11–The New [...]

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    013 Kernels of Wheat – The Love Meter

    January 3, 2012

    Show Notes by Jim Kerwin for Kernels of Wheat Podcast Episode 013—The Love Meter Review God’s desire: “That you also may have fellowship with us” (1 John 1:3) — intimate communion with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit The reason the Holy Spirit comes within — to draw us into that fellowship and to make [...]

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