Jim Kerwin

Guatemala Diary, Day #1

Coat of Arms of Guatemala

Coat of Arms of Guatemala

I’m writing this day after, because I was too wrung out to do it last night. Al Strickland, bless him, picked me up at “o’dark thirty” (04:40 to be precise), and I was being checked in at the Delta Airlines counter by 05:10. Both flights went well – on time, aisle seat, empty seat next to me, onboard WiFi working (until somewhere over the Gulf of Mexico). It was a productive time. I caught up on my New Testament reading in my pocket Bible, did my Old Testament reading on my Kindle (a weight-saving packing alternative) and fired off various e-mails and a few Facebook messages.

Upon arrival, the lines were short for inmigracion, but long for customs. Yet once it was my turn to be processed [click to continue…]

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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 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 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.
    • Matthew 12:44—Then [the unclean spirit]  [click to continue…]
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    Jim Kerwin’s Show Notes for Kernels of Wheat Podcast
    Episode 015 – Walking into Maturity

    The feet of a walking toddler are shown.

    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 known Him Who is from the beginning” (twice)
  • Young men (vv. 13,14)
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    Show Notes by Jim Kerwin for Kernels of Wheat Podcast
    Episode 013—The Love Meter

    Review

    The Love Meter

    How do you rate on God's Love Meter?

    • 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 us godly, Christlike
    • Abiding in that fellowship is the foundation of freedom from sin and sinning
    • “I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin.” (1 John 2:1)

    1 John 2:1-2

    • If anyone sins,” not when.  For a Christian who is walking in the Light, living in the profferred communion with God, sin is a rarity, rather than a perpetual inevitability.
    • Jesus is presented as:
    • Our Parakletos, that is, our legal Advocate for when we offend.
    • Same word used of the Holy Spirit in John 14:16,26; 15:26; 16:7
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    Jim Kerwin’s Show Notes for Kernels of Wheat Podcast
    Episode 010 – That Uncomfortable Word – Part 2

    Rubber stamp showing a 'guilty' verdict.

    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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    Two More Songs Singing Me

    October 10, 2011

    Sunday morning, 9 October 2011 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 [...]

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    006 Kernels of Wheat – When Is Walking More Than Walking?

    September 24, 2011

    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 [...]

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    004 Kernels of Wheat – God Is Light

    September 8, 2011

    Jim Kerwin’s Show Notes for Kernels of Wheat Podcast 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 [...]

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    003 Kernels of Wheat — No “God Bag” Needed!

    September 1, 2011

    Show Notes for Kernels of Wheat with Jim KerwinEpisode 003: No “God Bag Needed” (1 John 1:3-5) 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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