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My name is Jacob Gerber, and I am the Senior Pastor of Harvest Community Church in Omaha, NE.
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Latest Articles
God Has Not Called You to a Life of Stoic Singleness (1 Cor. 7:9)
God has not called you to a life of Stoic singleness—a life where you resist burning sexual desires with white-knuckled, superhuman strength. God calls you to self-control over your desires themselves, in one way or another.
Why Do We Use Creeds and Confessions in Worship?
If God commands us in the Scriptures how we should worship him, where do the historic creeds and confessions of the church fit into our worship?
True Repentance: What Does it Look Like?
Although no person can judge perfectly, God teaches us to evaluate true repentance. Here are three tools to distinguish between worldly and godly grief.
All Church Power is Only Ministerial and Declarative
The church has real authority, but not legislative authority. Rather, all church power is only ministerial and declarative to announce and apply God’s word.
How to Manage Projects in Evernote
Evernote is great not only to archive and organize information, but also to organize your productivity. This is how I manage projects in Evernote.
How to Create Evernote Note Links: A Detailed Tutorial
Evernote can store everything. With detailed screenshots, this tutorial shows you how to create Evernote note links so you can find anything you need.
How to Organize Evernote: A Quick-Start Guide
Evernote becomes more useful as you save more information into it—but organization becomes critical. Here are the primary ways to organize Evernote better.
How to Get Started Using Evernote
Because of its flexibility, it can be difficult to get started using Evernote. Here are three easy tips to improve your productivity with Evernote today.
Why I Use Evernote — and Why You Should Too
Evernote is the most important productivity tool I use. In this post, learn why I use Evernote, how I use it, and how you can start using it too.
The Productive Pastor
Like everyone else, pastors must develop their own system for productivity. Here are the core convictions of the productive pastor who seeks abiding fruit.
Fruitfulness: A Biblical Theology of Productivity
The Bible defines productivity as fruitfulness. In fact, the Bible records how God rescues his fruitless people through the fruitfulness of Jesus Christ.
Cultivating and Keeping: Human Productivity in Creation
Human productivity extends, preserves, and reforms God’s work of forming and filling. That is, God calls us to the work of cultivating and keeping.
Forming and Filling: God’s Productivity in Creation
Before we can understand the human productivity, we must understand God’s productivity. In Genesis 1, we see God’s work of forming and filling his creation.