A Sound Heart

Paul was the greatest theologian in Church History.  He had been powerfully transformed by the Grace of God.  He was astonished by the presence of the living God in his life.  Paul new that something wonderful happened to him on the road to Damascus that could only be explained as being seized by the Divine Spirit.  The theophany of the risen Jesus opened Paul's eyes to the new reality that is fou...

The choice is very simple, and yet very profound as to who Jesus is in one's life.  One either calls him lord, or one does not.  There is no middle ground.  It is a simple either/or proposition.  Either choice stipulates a unique destiny.  If one's choice is a yes to the person of Jesus as lord he or she will reap eternal rewards.  However, if one does not say yes to the person of Jesus he or she...

It is amazingly easy for humans to become co-partners in their own undoing.  Isn't amazing today that all of the well-connected ones paraded before us  are partners in the manipulation and harm of others.  Such persons have no fear of God before their eyes.  Hence their morbid and inordinate desire to fulfill lust patterns that lead to moral turpitude, and death.  Unbelief in God does not mean tha...

In Jesus was/is life and the life was the light of men and women.  The world today is filled with persons who have been denied appropriate identity.  People have been manipulated by the social engineers to believe only in the empirical lie.  People do not realize that the social engineers have taken away from them the knowledge of the living God.  The shattered and demonized man is typical of what...

  The west is gaslighting itself to death.  The social engineers have unleashed upon the pathetic social milieu the techo-lunacy of transhumanism.  Persons have vanished, and have been replaced by fluid entities who are merely this-and-that within the stream of things.  What is interesting is that the DSM deals with static beings and their problems of living, and not fluid entities!  What is, is r...

God has made super provisions for those who belong to him.  For instance, Truth is conformity to reality as established by God.  God's Truth is above human standards of relative truth or fiat provisions.  God's Truth is the hypostasis upon which we may rest our lives.  Truth heals the wayward soul.  Truth shines its holy light upon the darkness that lives within the human heart.  The Truth will se...

The three main enemies of the believer are the world, the flesh, and the devil.  The Devil(Gk. Diabolos) is the arch deceiver.  It is his plan to lead astray every believer who does not have his or her eyes fixed upon the person of Jesus.  The Devil knows that those who consistently look at Jesus have optimum spiritual health or they are growing in spiritual health.  Jesus is the Great Physician. ...

Are we at the end of the Church Age?  Has the western church merely become a malignant presence before the world?  Has the church a message for the present evil age?  When the foundations are removed what can the righteous do?  What can the church do to once again have a moral and spiritual importance in the world?  The church will need to confess its sin in departing from the living God if it is...

There are precious individuals who have been terribly abused by others to such an extent that they develop an indentity of shame.  They are not at ease in their own skins.  They are spiritually and mentally fragile, and yet they may have remarkable courage.  These people have stories that frighten the untutored ear.  They have stories that both compel and repel.  They are survivors of the unspeaka...

Both the Old Testsment and the New Testament address the danger of unforgiveness.  There are those who really believe that unforgiveness is the right way to address an injustice or personal wrong.  This may seem the right approach, but it is a deadly approach.  Lack of forgiveness is a spiritual trap.  It saps the life of the one who will not forgive.  Unforgiveness will leave one empty and spirit...

Since the devil could not stop the saving activity of God through Jesus he has sought to confuse and ruin the redeemed.  Believers are the object of the devil's menace.  False teachers have been used by the devil to obscure and hinder the good work of God in the lives of believing ones.  Believers have been told that the teachings of man will heal.  The Word of God teaches that the word of man onl...

Jesus was/is God manifest in the flesh.  He tented among us in his flesh.  He came to his own and his own received him not.  Jesus was not a therapist nor an ancient guru.  He is the God-Man.  He is God's ideal man.  He is the Son of Man.  He knows all about what sin has done to the human heart.  He knows all about human darkness.  He has seen though our collective masks and he still loves us. He...

The Word of God is the message of hope.  The Word of God tells the story of the love of God in the person of Jeus.  The mission of Jesus was to give his  life as a ransom for many.  He gave his life that those who sit in darkness may no longer be trapped therein.  God's church is composed of those who have accepted the Good News of the Gospel.  Now is the accpeted time, now is the day of Salavtion...

Things are very real these days.  People are standing up for causes that are both sane and strange.  The church, however, seems to have lost its eternal perspective.  The church can still point out moral failure, but it cannot find the courage to live in a Christlike manner before the world.  It takes Spirit-filled courage to live as a believer today.  How well I remember when the church was awash...

It seems that the mental health experts of this age are not apolitical.  It seems that the violence around the world has silenced the voices of the mental health "experts."  Where is the word to the afflicted one?  Where is their word to the ones harmed by relentless political violence?  Where is their word to those who are confused and taken aback by amazing horror?  Children are being slaughtere...

Jesus has come that we may have life in superabundance.  The life that Jesus gives is his own life.  We are in a conjoint relationship with Him.  We have been made accepted in the Beloved (Jesus) by God.  This new llife is filled with love, joy, peace, and freedom.  God has lavished his Grace on us.  We have been given a life that bring joy unspeakable and full of glory.  Dont settle for mere reli...

Paul's theology was intrinsically Christocentric.  He had graduated beyond the both/and theology of the compromisers.  Paul knew that if one wanted to know the depths of the person of Jesus the elemental things of the cosmos had to be abandoned.  The line of demarcation is written in the Blood of Jesus.  Those who come to Him for real know this to be true.  The pseudo-intellectual types want a Jes...

God knows the darkest deeds and thoughts of our hearts.  He has provided a way for us to be free of the past.  We must go to him and confess ous sins so that we can be released from their bondage.  God also knows that there are sins that we do that produce a mountain of shame ad deep regret.  He loves us when we are in such bondage, and he wants us to know that his love is deeper that many waters.

Practical Atheism is a fancy way of pointing out a terrible sin.  It is the sin of casting aside the collective moral imperative of the Gospel.  The Gospel is God's message of salvation to this age.  Those who receive Jesus as their Savior have been delivered from eternal death. After salvation believers are to grow in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior.  However, when believers stop growing in...

God is prior to mass/energy.  God is prior to any system of human thinking.  God is prior to the human nervous system.  The inspired theologian of the Genesis document states that God spoke the cosmos in existence.  No one has disproved this dynamic truth.  Yes, there are theories that claim to explain the origins of matter, but there are mere theories frosted with hubris.  God spoke and the thing...

We are living the Chruch Age, but this is also the Day of Man.  However, the Day of Man will be followed by the Day of Christ.  The Day of Christ will bring to an end the terrible Day of Man.  This is the Satan's last attempt to set up a kingdom in opposition to God.  The last kingdom of the Satan will be ended by the glorious Second Coming of Jesus.  He (Jesus) will destroy the kingdom of the Abs...

God is doing a new thing in Jesus.  He has created a new humanity or a qualitatively new anthropology through the finished work of Jesus.  Did you know that God has provided a new mind for those he has saved?  He wants us to have nothing to do with the old mind that is filled with the ways of sin and darkness.  The mind that God offers us is filled with the things of the Spirit so that we would le...

The New Name motif denotes the new reality in Jesus.  The New Name bespeaks more than a verbal identifier.  The New Name defines the substantive new essence (new humanity) that God gives to those who are in Christ.  The New Name is founded upon the new being that we have received  through the finished work of Jesus.   The old man(ancient life), and its destructive ways have been done away through...

The Theater of the Absurd is a present tense reality.  The day of kinetic mindlessness is the new religion of the post-modern west.  The visible church has joined the Theater of the Absurd by seeking to identify with the culture instead of lifting up the Living Christ.  The visible church has a mere facade of godliness,but not the reality thereof.  One may not dishonor the doctrines of Divine Grac...

Jesus is the center of the saving activity of God.  He is alos the incarnation of God in the flesh.  Jesus was very popular in the first years of his public ministry.  Later on he would have problems with both the religious and political authorities of his time.  They wanted nothing to do with Jesus because he threatened their control over the people.  Jesus only spoke to the people of the love of...