A Sound Heart

The religio-political elite of Jesus' day attempted to control the media and deny the reality of the resurrection because it meant that their power had become nil.  They knew that if the common people had first hand knowledge of the resurrection their mind control machine would be overthrown.  Their money and power depended upon who they marketed themselves to be to the people.  Jesus shattered th...

In the Brave New World cognitive restructuring is done through media.  Long ago in a book called 'the Medium is the Message' we were warned of this emerging "reality."  The general populace have no idea that their minds have been marketed to them through subtle manipulation.  From womb to tomb or cradle to grave people carry the messages of a culture that has managed to "make merchandise of them"...

Psalm 23 is one of the Shepherd psalms.  It is the confession of a heart that has become mature.  It is the confession of a heart that has been disciplined through many powerful situations that God is always faithful to those who are faithful to Him.  The psalmist's heart has become stablized by truth, and he knows that he has been set free of the conditional word of man.  He is a light-dweller, a...

The psalmist knew that this life would seek to drain our souls of life.  The psalmist knew  that the only place to have respite from the evils of this life was only in God.  He told God what he faced in the world.  He told God about the problems of living in this world.  He told God that at times he felt empty, and directionless.  He told God that it was sometimes difficult to keep on keeping on b...

The western church is in trouble.  It has lost the Courage to Be.  It stumbles in the darkness of the world because it has sacrificed Jesus the Savior for Jesus the Healer.  Most certainly, God heals our lives as we grow up in faith and trust, but most importantly he saves us from eternal ruin.  Christologies of the west have become empty because real theological work has been set aside , and the...

She was of humble origins.  She had no idea that she was God's chosen vessel to save his people when they were threatened with genocide by the wicked Haman.  Haman had no idea that his selfish and evil plan would be stopped by the unseen God.  Yes, the name of God is never used in the book of Esther, but his presence is on every page.  Many are the plans of man, but it is the LORD'S desire that wi...

One of the greatest and abiding motifs of the Word of God is the Divine Warrior.  Please get to understand this compelling aspect of the Divine Essence. The Divine Warrior is revealed in Genesis chapter One when the Spirit of God slays the chaos monster of pre-creation.  He is also manifested in many other passages too.  Those who refuse to bow to the authority of God have an inherent desire to re...

Social mythologies exist to control actions and perceptions.  The masses have no idea that their intrinsic technologies are mere toys.  What is really there, and what can really be accomplished, and has been accomplished remain hidden.  Many years ago in a well respected scientific publication there was an article on self-replicating bio-computers that used Ecoli.  I am sure these many years later...

The unacknowledged gestalt of the church in the last days is the coming judgement.  We may pretend that the pseudo-scholars have dismissed the reality of the Christ Event, but they have only spoken from the empty perspective of the flesh.  The flesh is afraid of God, therefore it attempts to dismiss God through clever but empty arguments by little minds.  The Creator God is an awesome figure to co...

"Physician heal thyself" are words desperately needed today by the church.  The witness of the church as moral compass in the west has long passed.  There is too much sin that has been overlooked or tolerated by religious institutions.  The Jesus of the New Testament has become a one-dimentional figure to be endlessly discussed by so-called scholars who have no real spiritual lives.  Their learned...

The visible church has decided to live as though God is not real.  There is, of course, the religious talk without the walk.  There is the compromised behavior that passes for a walk of faith.  Most people do not even know what practical sanctification is, or what it means to be filled with the Spiirt.  God help us.  God's people have fallen into the abyss of selfishness, and the pursuit of the en...

The spiritual deadness in the chruches today is very real.  False doctrine permeates the churches in America.  The church today does not believe that love is the ethical imperative as espoused by Jesus himself.  His word has been set aside by the doctrines of men which teach hate, the circular doctrine of  racial self-mockery, and economic oneupmanship.  Today the value of persons has less to do w...

If only western believing ones read and understood the Old Testament.  If only western believing ones had spiritual discernment many things would be very different in the west.  For instance,  the church would have a strong witness as the people of God, and not as philosophically religious evangelicals.  God is not the author of a religious movement.  God is the author of salvation.  What would ha...

Even a very superficial reading of human history reveals a tragic story.  Something is very wrong within the human "family."  There is, however, the disturbing narrative of the exploitation of the weak by the powerful without apology.  What is very interesting is the reality that the strong and the weak share the same need for a Redeemer.  All have sinned and come short of God's righteousness.  Th...

Did you come from a house divided?  Are you still in recovery mode from what went on behind those doors in the past?  Are the scenes from a broken childhood ever playing in your head, and you don't know how to get free?  God has provided a way for the most hurtful experiences from the past to stop hurting you in the present.  You must do what God did for the first family after their terrible failu...

The first home in history was overthrown by rebellion and selfish desire.  God had made known to the Adam his will.  The Adam was not to eat the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good (tob) and evil (ra).  By eating of the fruit the Adam entered into a new state of existence.  He entered into the realm of death.  The reality of "...dying thou shalt die" is not longer merely a noetic promise it...

Satan's attack upon the primival home was not arbitrary.  On the contrary, his attack was a highly skilled spiritual assault upon the doctrinal content of the woman's heart.  His words were carefully chosen in order to seduce and deceive her.  She entered into a conversation with the shining one in which she unknowingly entrapped herself.  She absolutely had no idea what she had done to herself an...

The structural compromise of the family in the west is completely satanic.  The attack upon the family today is the Satan's post-modern attempt to dismantle the famijly as the basis of society.  It is no mistake that ography is easily available to every mmember of the family.  It is no mistake that today people spend most of their waking hours endlessly engaged with their cell-phones and other han...

Discernment is a gift of God.  Discernment does not discriminate by age, color, or sex.  Discernment has to do with one's vital relationship with God.  The arrogant ones cannot know the depth of spiritual insight that God gives to those who do his will.  The arrogant ones assume that they have all needed insight into the nature of things but it is merely their own convenient fiction.  God does not...

We are living at the end of this age.  This age is in spiritual decay and mere words and superficial policies will not avert its course.  The time has come for those who claim to be believing ones to get serious about the Faith once for all delivered to the saints.  Jesus has already told us what to expect, and the writers of the New Testament have forewarned us that this age will end with the com...

No one, but no one like the spectre of defeat.  There is so much to dislike about defeat because we make it personal and feel that we are now defined by defeat.  That's taking it a bit too far of course, but emotions go hayware when we experience defeat.  It's not easy at first to see defeat as a learning curve when it stings so bad.  Let's see, first of all, we must reign in pride if we are to fu...

Life is full of trials and problems, and we may long to know how to get out of a situation that doggedly drags on and on with no end in sight.  It is a spiritual battle, and we may sometimes fail to recognize it.  Nevertheless, we must learn to walk by faith, and not by sight when faced with too-much-ness.  God knows when we are faced with too-much-ness but he is there with us in the midst of frus...

Spiritual maturity happens over time.  It is a gradual process that requires patience and hardships.  Those who believe that spiritual maturity in Christ is only for a chosen few have not carefully read the Scriptures.  God's plan is for all of his chosen ones to ultimately be conformed into the likeness of Jesus.  Jesus is God's prototype new Man.  Even the old Adam who fell in Gan-Eden will beco...

This age of reductionism, this age of terse mathematical models of human behavior does not believe in the soul of man.  In fact, the soul is not quantifiable or measurable, ergo, it is not valued.  Litttle wonder that suicide is on the rise among teens who are done with the emptiness of social media.  Adults have become shadowy and morbidly insubstantial beings.  There is truly no more ghost in th...

The believing community is God's heritage.  The believing community has an inheritance in Jesus.  This not mere speculation, it is divine reality.  Our growing God-consciousness which we receive through our spirits informs our hearts that we are indeed the people of God.  We are completely free.  We will only grow in deeper awareness of who we are, and whose we are as we grow in the Word of God. ...