Eric's Blog - Entries written by Eric Posteluk Unloading CondemnationWhen we live our lives resting in the hope of the cross of Jesus Christ, we will not live under the weight of condemnation. What is condemnation exactly? Here’s how CJ Mahaney puts it in his book The Cross Centered Life : Living with, “a sustained... More Our Prayer Pillar At Harvest Bible Chapel we have Four Pillars that guide all of our ministry. Proclaiming the authority of God’s Word without apology - 2 Timothy 4:2 Lifting high the name of Jesus through worship - John 4:24 Believing firmly in the power of prayer -... More A Church "of" Small Groups I love Small Groups and I want you to as well! It’s hard to overstate the benefits that can be had from a strong Small Group. HBC Joliet will not be a church with “some” Small Groups; rather, it will be a church “of” Small Groups. Our Sunday worship... More The 3 W'sAt Harvest Bible Chapel, we try to keep things simple. When things are simple, they’re more easily understood, and therefore, more easily remembered, and therefore more easily applied. Simplification encourages -- application, which brings about --... More Expository Preaching I hope you had a Merry Christmas -- Preaching is absolutely critical in the local church! Once Harvest Bible Chapel Joliet launches I will be preaching expository sermons on a weekly basis. Some may be familiar with this term and others may not be.... More Harvest "Bible" Chapel Last week was an eventful one at the Training Center . We are now in the Leadership phase of our training; we’re hitting that topic from a number of different angles. The church will rise or fall because of godly or ungodly leadership. What one... More Preach the WordPreaching is on my mind. I just finished my second phase in the Training Center on it. During this phase we covered numerous things regarding preaching: studying and preparation time, boiling down the main point of a passage, outlines, explaining... More Trust & Joy We’re still going through our section on being trained in preaching in the Training Center (where I’m being trained for ministry right now at HBC Elgin). I’ve thoroughly enjoyed it! David Jones is leading us; he’s doing a wonderful job breaking down... More Rejoice in our SufferingsHello everyone! I’m running a couple days late on getting this blog out since I was in Florida with Barbie. Last week was a shorter week in the class room so my summary will be shorter than usual. Summary discussions on introductions for sermons... More Back from DavenportHey everyone! I hope you all had a great week in the Lord. A lot happened last week. My week ended by making a trip out to the church plant in Davenport Iowa with my family. A kind family took all six of us in for the night. We all had a great time.... More Future reward brings present joyHey everyone! Below are some updates from last week in the Training Center for me and a couple verses to mediate on. Summary practiced telling personal stories – illustrations discussions on the application of biblical texts (ancient world to modern... More Astonished At His TeachingHey everyone! It is getting a little cooler out there. We actually saw a house with Christmas lights up yesterday! First time I’ve ever seen that! :-) Also, my wife and I were at the parenting seminar at Harvest in Rolling Meadows and “out of the... More Pray Like JesusHello everyone! On Tuesday of this week we had to put our cat down. My girls were pretty upset... My 4 year old said, “It’s tearing my heart out!” The “very next day” my girls told their bus driver what happened and she said that her daughter just... More |
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