A Sound Heart

This episode of A Sound Heart will explore the very important doctrine of spiritual discipline.  God is in the process of bringing many sons and daughters into glory through the instrumentality of suffering.  The church is a group of persons who have been called out from spiritual death through the power of the Spirit of God.  We are now called to walk in newnwss of life.  We are to put off the ol...

We can save the west only if we return to God.  We can save what is left of this culture if we collectively confess that we have sinned against God.  Perhaps we have gone too far in our collective pride to pray for our lives!  Darkness is never passive it is an active principle in the Word of God.  Darkness is not racist or prejudiced.  It is an active fire that eats everyone in its path.  It thri...

This episode of A Sound Heart will explore the crisis of faith in the west.  Yes, we have the power elite who believe in Mars, Venus, and maybe Mammon (god of money), but little else.  There is also the evil joy in manipulating the masses with sadistic lies and half-truths.  Plundering the lives of the powerless is sport for the local self-appointed gods.  However, the God above the god of this ag...

The west cannot afford to continue the game of think tank games.  The west cannot continue the great lie of the elite.  The manipulation of people for power politics will ultimately fail.  Legal fiat is bulit upon a platform that is fading away because God has been scolded for being God , and dismissed as a needless fiction.  Western nihilism and legal fiat are themselves amusing fictions.  The et...

A Sound Heart radio explores in this episode the power to make a new beginning.  You may feel that you cannot have a new beginning in your life.  You may feel that you have messed up too much to get things right.  You may even feel that God is not on your side, and he is not going to allow you to prosper.  It is time to be delivered from the lies that have kept you from a profound destiny.  It is...

This episode of A Sound Heart will explore the necessity of temptation(s) in the spiritual life.  The spiritual life is one of continual grow and maturity, but there are times when one is confronted by one's spiritual claims.  God tested Abraham at a particular time in his spiritual growth.  The binding of Issac was a test and a preface to a new beginning in the spiritual journey of Abraham.  We t...

Sinful actions are filled with power.  Sinful actions have the power to determine out destiny. Therefore, one will do well to make no provisions for the flesh.  Those who makes provision for the flesh will not be pleased with the results of his or her actions.  God does not, and will not allow those who are his to sin successfully.  Despite what the cosmic system may teach all actions have consequ...

This episode of A Sound Heart will examine the necessity of forgiveness.  It is interesting that a great deal of research today is exploring forgiveness.  Even those who are engaged in end of life care speak about the spiritual pain of those who have unresolved issues, and who have not been counseled on forgiveness.  One cannot be free in this life without forgiveness.  There are those who cannot...

Secret sins color the way we engage life.  Secret sins keep us one step removed from real living.  There is no way to please God as long as we tolerate the presence of sin in our lives.  Sin makes life a living hell.  Sin distorts our thinking and makes our attitude foul and bitter.  Sin creates envy in our hearts and we want to lash out at those who seem to have rich, full, and meaningful lives. ...

It is folly to believe that one may effectively call upon the name of Jesus and practice sin.  It is spiritual blindness to think that God does not see when one talks the walk, but does not walk the talk.  The "People of the Lie" believe that God the Almighty One really does not know their foul and shameful habits.  However, he does know their anti-god habits of self-worship, and twisted ways.  Th...

The heart that is filled with lies knows only deceit and misery.  It is not possible to be whole and live a fulfilled life if one is imprisoned by lies.  Lies are not intrinsic to the created order.  In fact, lies are abnormal to the created order.  At some point the one who has invested his life in lies will be faced with his decisions in a manner that eats its creator.  The liar may create a fic...

The topic of sin is not popular, but it is necessary.  Sinful actions dissolve the souls and hearts of persons.  Persons who practice sin may find pleasure therein for a season, but then consequences come to collect the debt.  Many have been left hollow, empty, and lost when the consequences of irresponsible behavior come to havoc their lives.  The wages of sin is death,but the gift of God is eter...

This episode of A Sound Heart explores the terrible cost of secret sins.  Secret sins are a curse upon the soul.  Secret sins do much spiritual harm.  They make us small and unproductive.  They make us lie to ourselves and others who we love, and who love us.  They are jealous lovers.  They create spiritual decay within and without the soul.  They set our lives on fire while at the same time rende...

This episode of A Sound Heart explores the necessity of spiritual coherence and Spirit-led sanity in these diabolic times.  These are indeed diabolic days,and shattering times.  Lies superabound to the possible, or probable socio-political destruction of the believing ones.  Sanity is on vacation in these days.  It seems that it is not coming back anytime soon.  Political rhetoric is filled with m...

Once upon a time there was a king who was addicted to the pronoun "I." He believed that he alone had built a mighty kingdom without the help of God Almighty.  Because the king was blinded by arrogance and had forgotten that all that he received had been given to him by God he was judged.  His diseased mind was taken over by an animal's mind.  For seven long years he was imprisoned by his diseased...

This episode of A Sound Heart will investigate the end of the mythos of psychologized man.  Psychologized man was the creation of persons who greeted the dawning of the 20th century with psychotherapy.  A philosophical tenet which believed that one could probe the dephts of the human psyche with talk.  This technique assumed an amazing power differential.  It gave power to the questioner and no po...

This episode of A Sound Heart will explore self-rejection due to early childhood abuse.  This is an ongoing problem not only in western "culture" such as it is, but also the world at large.  We seem to be placing bandages over the gaping wounds of abused ones in our society.  Persons are highly abusive today due to many obvious and not so obvious factors.  Spiritual pollution is chronic, but is ma...

This episode of a Sound Heart is a sobering reflection on the state of America Inc., and its relentless passion for profit over life.  What would it profit a man if he gained the whole world and loses his soul?  The average human life span is only 800,000 hours.  Given that small statistical time on this earth what are you doing with your few hours?  God is still giving eternal life to those who t...

This episode of A Sound Heart explores the resurrection power of Jesus.  The resurrection power of Jesus is available to all of the saints who have crucified the flesh(sarx).  This is the starting point of true freedom in Jesus.  Hostility and anger are virulent spiritual diseases.  Hostility and anger are often associated with bitterness and resentment.  No one can be spiritually healthy when he...

This episode of A Sound Heart will explore the necessity of growing in spiritual perception.  Spiritual perception is more than mere intellectual grasp of a few points of doctrine.  Spiritual perception involves the whole person.  It is holistic growth that begins in the heart of the person.  The heart or kardia must grow in awareness of the person of Jesus.  This means growing conformity to the i...

This episode of A Sound Heart will explore the reality of appropriate worship.  We live in a time when the skewed vision of moral relativism has taken control of the hearts of people.  Egocentrism rules the day.  God has become a remote being for those who worship at the altar of self.  The selfie is an old reality.  There are such instances recorded in the Word of God of individuals who erected m...

This episode of A Sound Heart wll explore the power of Jesus to transform life into something wonderful.  Jesus never gave a soft invitation to come to him, he demanded persons to come to him.  Jesus was/is the Son of God.  He alone has the words of life.  Think about it carefully, do you really trust the words of self-centered politicians.  Their words are word of I-IT not I-Thou.  They merely ob...

This episode of A Sound Heart will explore the need to recognize the existence of evil supernaturalism in this age.  The belief that the robust misery and shocking examples of heartless violence in our society and in the world are merely of human origin is terribly flawed.  Therapies will come and go but until the mental health community wakes up to the reality of evil supernaturalism little will...

This episode of A Sound Heart will explore the phenomenon of spiritual suffering in the lives of believing ones.  There are times when we suffer the reproach of Jesus, and there are other times when we suffer spiritually.  Spiritual suffering can cause us to be pushed to the edge of endurance and beyond.  This is what existential therapy investigates and seeks to address.  Our limited answers can...

This episode of A Sound Heart will explore the self- sacrificial love that Jesus has commanded of his followers.  We have created many types of theologies and psychologies based upon someone's seemingly redemptive insight.  However, we are never enjoined to create new theologies we are commanded to love one another.  This is where western theology is frail and on life support devices. We do not fo...