A Sound Heart

Joshua faced a powerful enemy at Ai.  He faced the arrogance of the flesh.  The flesh is the enemy of every believer.  The flesh blinds the believer to divine viewpoint, and he or she comes to believe the empirical lie.  The empirical lie is the belief that the flesh sees all, and comprehends all things.  The empirical lie is radically opposed to the Word of God.  God wants the believer to know th...

Joshua was called to lead the people of God in the conquest of the Land of Promise.  Joshua was an able and godly leader.  He was chosen by God because of his extraordinary character.  He was a real under shepherd of the Lord.  He did, however, at times do what you and I do.  He allowed the thinking of the flesh to becloud divine viewpoint thinking.  Ai is a picture of defeat.  You and I will expe...

The people of Yahweh in the Old Testsment had to learn trust by going through many hardships.  For instance, it took them forty years to make the journey to the promised land that should have taken only eleven days! Unfortunately, even though they saw the works of Yahweh in the first person they were never able to unite what they saw with trust.  The forty year journey ended when they all died in...

The biblical materials have a great amount of pertinent information on the subject of anger.  The information is relevant, instructive, and powerful.  Many people today are angry.  They are angry about current events, their lack of life effectiveness, inability to have successful relationships, and many other reasons.  It is imperative to know that God will give us the power to master anger throug...

The world today is filled with darkness, dispair, and grief.  The so-called powers that be have no word other than the cult of death.  The world is filled with darkneess because men love darkness rather than light.  People have been become mere merchandise at the hands of the corporate powers.  Others are used for the nefarious goals of the pseudo-elite.  Drugs, not fiat currency are the "money" o...

The Biblical Materials do not teach empty religious generalizations.  The Biblical Materials do not present God as a figure who can be manipulated by man.  The Bliblical Materials present God as the Holy One who demands that we listen to and obey his Word, and positively respond to his marvelous saving acts in Jesus.  Those who hear his Word will receive eternal life, and those who do not hear his...

The Genesis Flood is an abiding warning of the wrath of God.  It is an abiding warning that God will not always stay his hand from judgement.  Yes, God will not destroy the world again by a great flood.  He will, however, end this age by defeating all of those who are in active opposition to Him, and bring glory to his Name.  Please remember that judgement upon this age will be because people will...

The Genesis Flood was a real event in spacetime history.  It is interesting to note that the Flood event has been recorded universally in ancient historical accounts and epics.  There are even ancient Roman coins that reference the Flood.  Also, no transtional life forms have been found in the fossil record.  In fact, most of the fossils found have been clams! Some mountain tops in South America h...

Jesus said:  "In this world you will be in tight places."  Our common enemy as believers is the Devil.  Please note that his name means 'divider.'  He know that he cannot seperate believing ones from their relationship with the Lord, but he can, and will influence believers to take their eyes off Jesus so as to weaken their spiritual lives.  We are not of this age (aion), and the Devil knows this...

The meaning and scope of the Genesis Flood narrative has been purposefully obscured in these days.  The Flood narrative has been relegated to a mere religious myth or Sunday school fare.  However, what people are not told these days is the truth of the Flood narrative.  It is not a tale told by an idoit full of sound and fury signifying nothing.  The Genesis Flood was God's judgement upon a world...

During his public Jesus saw the unfortunate panaroma of human ills and conditions.  He saw and healed diseases of both body and mind.  Jesus, however, did not look upon persons as mind-body dualities.  On the contrary, Jesus looked upon persons in a holistic manner.  He knew that what had wounded the soul would manifest in the body.  He also knew that disease could arise as a naturalistic phenomen...

This show will discuss the power of God to set us free from anger.  Perhaps you believe that your anger is justified because of some injustice or perceived wrong.  Please understand that the foundation of anger is pride.  Anger may be a response to the way others have treated us, and we want to get back at the person or persons who harmed us.  Anger can often be deep, existential, convoluted and o...

We dare not compromise the powerful character of Jesus, and yet there are those who have attempted to do it.  Their collective attacks have sought to undermine his resurrection.  Some have believed that their unbelief in Jesus should direct us away from Him.  They have deified their prideful unbelief, and they want us to join in their banquet of spiritual riot!  We would see Jesus because we know...

Jesus said: "Heaven and earth will pass away, but my word will never pass away."  He asserts the eternal nature of his Word.  His Word is prior to the material universe.  Therefore he is the Creator God.  The Scriptures teach that the Word of Jesus is intrinsic reality. His Word is the opposite of falsehood, and lies.  His Word is apolitical, and not of this age(aion).  His Word upholds all things...

We live in an age wherein the sins of the togue are celebrated.  We live in a time in which the pathology of the tongue is encouraged by the social engineers.  Persons are defiled (made unclean) by the sins of the tongue.  Persons have died because of the sins of the tongue, and others have been wounded unto death thereby.  We can see the decay within society by the way in which people seek to des...

The universe was created by the Word of God.  Mass or energy is a standing wave function imposed upon void.  The things that we see were made of things that do not appear.  God upholds the universe by the Word of his power.  It is he who is now creating a people for himself through the power of the Spirit.  God's Spirit makes people new through a power that cannot be imagined, but it is a power th...

Jesus said:"Come unto me all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will rest you."  He said these words to all of us who find ourselves overcome by life's burdens.  He knows our collective dis-eases and how we may be free of them if we would but come to him.  It seems that our greatest obstacle in coming to Jesus for healing is Pride.  Yes, pride seems to be the orginal disease.  Jesus can tea...

Western Christianity of today is not classic historic Faith.  Western christianity is a mask.  It is based on cultural values that have little in common with the Word of God.  It is a luke-warm faith that is good for nothing.  Even Jesus said that lukewarmness is good for nothing.  Then there are those believers who have not abandoned the Faith once for all given to the Saints.  These are the chos...

Western threapies do not reckonize sin.  In fact, western therapies, of which there are many have no understanding of the religious dimension of persons.  Western therapies are secular systems that are prejudiced against biblical humanism.  The Word of God does not use therapies.  People need the Word of God because it alone has the one message that fully and comprehensively elucidates the human c...

Confession, according to the biblical documents is a detailed account of one's sins against God.  Confession to God means moreover that one is deeply aware of sinnning against God, others, and oneself.  If one does not confess his sin to God it is due to pride, and selfishness.  The enemy of our souls will use our unconfessed sinful guilt as a weapon aganist us.  Listen, God already knows when we...

Human or manmade therapies come and go, and may have some marginal or temporal success.  However, those who build their lives upon the Rock of the Word of God understand that Truth is more than therapy. Truth is the final arbiter of reality.  Truth conforms to reality.  Jesus said:' I am ...the Truth.' This was not metaphor or symbolic speech.  He spoke of intrinsic reality.  He verily was/is the...

The Old Testament foretold the coming of the Son of God.  Indeed, the Old Testament literature is centered around the saving activity of God in Jesus.  His coming was first mentioned in the third chapter of the book of Genesis.  Where sin abounded Grace superabounded and some more on top of that is the incredible narrative of the Word of God.  Jesus is the Logos.  He is God's answer to the sin que...

Where is the Theology of Ultimate Concern in the feminist movement?  Where is the angry outcry over the trafficking of children around the world?  It seems that the feminists have lost their intrinsic identity.  They are disconnected from themselves and God therefore they have no real identities.  They have made a covenant with death.  The only way they can have real lives is to come to Jesus.  Wh...

ography is a highly destructive power.  It ruins both individual lives and families. ography is more that mere addiction it is a powerful and relentless bondage.  It promises freedom but it is the road to complete ruin.  The biblical materials warn us not to allow our members to become instruments of sin.  Using ography for sexual gratification is sin.  The minds and spirits of men and women who u...

The greatest gift in this life is to come to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.  When were yet without strength Jesus died for us.  This is no light statement to consider.  This is an amazing statement that resonates the saving activity of God.  The Word of God demands obedience to believe the Gospel.  Believing the Gospel sets one in a new reality that will remain fresh forever.  This is the pow...