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On AI

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In many ways, the rise of AI (Artificial Intelligence) is a great asset to humanity. Functioning as a fully-featured web trawler, it can navigate vast swaths of the worldwide web in seconds...

On Hard Times

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You’ve heard the following adage, surely: “Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.” Though recently...

On The Dark Side Of Success

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There is a dark side of success, you know. In fact, here’s my opening salvo, my abstract, my thesis statement, if you will: The very traits that enable stellar achievements and great success...

On Competence

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I don’t think anyone with even a nominal appreciation for sanity or safety would offer a rebuttal to the following postulate: for high-stakes professions, particularly for jobs where other...

On the Song of the Sword

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There is nothing wrong with a barbecue, a gun range, a cool beard, or a bench press. Not even close. I like all of these things, to be sure. But I confess that when I see churches hosting...

On Churches Near Me

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I hadn’t done it in about 10 years, but yesterday I did — I spent quite a bit of time taking in the ecclesiological landscape around me in my neck of the woods. I wanted to learn more...

On planting new churches

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My late father was a church planter, both in the United States and in Zambia, Africa. One of the things I most admire about my dad’s church planting and missionary endeavors is that he was a...

On Counterfeits

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In this entry, I’d like to speak about two different kinds of counterfeits. First, I’ll address a counterfeit Christianity, and then we’ll move to discuss a counterfeit God/Christ...

On the Gospel

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“This world needs the Gospel.” I’ve uttered that phrase quite a few times over the years while driving or walking or otherwise spending time in my small town. My reasons for saying...

M. Ernest

About Me

I am blessed with a wonderful wife and four precious children. I previously pastored in Maine for about 15 years; the first 4 years were as a youth, associate, and music pastor of a church in Maine, and then the next 11 years were as the pastor of the wonderful Topsham Baptist Church.

I currently live in Southwest Kanas, where I hope to one day breathe my last breath in this life surrounded by my children and grandchildren. While still alive, however, I enjoy writing about theology, current events, and other topics that interest me.

I am presently working on several books, including a book about how to be an absolutely insufferable Christian, drawing from my deep wells of experience as an absolutely insufferable Christian. I’m also trying my hand at Christian-adjacent fiction. I think it’s going well.

The Other Thing I Do

You can find my other endeavor, the Equipoise Podcast, here.