A Sound Heart

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the necessity of  spiritual metabolization of the Word of God.  It is only by the Word of God that we may know the fullness and richness of the spiritual life.  

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the moral necessity of God.  Society, heretofore, has had its foundation built upon the Judeo-Christian ethic.  That foundarion is being challenged by radical forces who want to overthrow the presence of God among us and replace Him with mere techno-humanism.  If we go down that road one may assured of absolute totalitarian control over all of life.  There...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the necessity of faith for believing ones.  We live in very challenging days and times. We are privy to information such as it is that  captures personal and social alienation.  People are burdened with survival behavior and do not know where to turn for help and hope.  The Word of the living God will give you both hope and a meaningful life.

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the Brave New World and its inherently manipulative social mandate.  The Brave New World is upon us and we must have a compass in order to negotiate its continent of mud.  The Word of God is our reliable guide in these nefarious days.  We cannot be sure of what we see from day to day because what we think we see has been carefully seasoned to produce a part...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the doctrine of the Logos in the New Testament.  The Logos is the incarnation of the Word of God.  Jesus is the Logos.  He is not some shadowy figure of the past steeped in myth or quaint legend.  He is the one through whom Theos would reconcile the world to himself.  

This episode of Pneumatikos will revisit the historic Barmen Declaration.  The Barmen Declaration was a document that opposed the Deutsche Christen movement.  This powerful document set forth the position that Jesus (Iesous) is Lord of all and that his Church is solely under his control without apology.  In our post-modern age the Barman Declaration represents a theological wake up call to believi...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the New Being called the Church, and its creation through the sacrifice of Jesus on the Roman Gibbet in 33 A.D. in order to save humankind.

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the administration of divine justice to those who stood by and watched their brethern suffer.  Theirs was the crime of arrogant indifference to the suffering of others.  The eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the earth beholding the good Heb. Tob) and the evil (Heb. Ra).  Yahweh still sits enthroned above the flood and one day he will personally rev...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the abolition of sanity.  Sanity has exited the building and it seems no one has norticed.  People today have surrendered sanity in the name of fleshly desire, and meanwhile behind the veil actions and plans are in motion to supplant the very notion of God.  Read the provocative pages of the Grand Inquisitor and realize that we are standing before the abyss...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the meticulous and crafty work of the Antidikos (Adversary).  The Antidikos is another name for the Diabolos(Divider) or the Satan.  The Antidikos seeks to gather evidence against you in order to impeach your witness.  He has the eyes of the Drakon and the cunning of the old Serpen and he is supremely skillful in his art.  Unfortunately, the Antidikos is no...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the nefarious work of the Katergoros.  The Katergoros is one of the names of the supernatural being known popularly as the Satan (Adversary).  As the Katergoros it is the tireless work the Satan (Opposer) to impeach publically the testimonies of believing ones.  He is painstakingly adroit, cunning, and diabolically astute in the methods that he devises to o...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the theological and spiritual nature of God's faith-rest.  There was a generation long ago that saw the works of God in the first person and yet that was not enough.  That generation constantly asked God for more and more evidence of his love for them and yet they never developed the faith to follow God completely  Their shallow faith did not serve them wel...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the importance of trust in God.  Daniel's life was filled with poignant life lessons of approriate trust in God.  Through intense persecution he persevered and would not forfeit his well-placed trust in God.  Daniel's soul was filled with epignosis( critical perception of doctrine), and he was Spirit-filled too.  This was an unbeatable combination that made...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the importance of wisdom medicine.  Wisdom medicine is found throughout the pages of the biblical documents.  One of the primary sources of wisdom medicine is the Proverbs document.  Within the pages of this document one discovers the dynamic interaction and result of trust in Yahweh.  The Fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom.  The thinking is decidedl...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the crisis of anxiety in a world beset by violence,intrigue,and lies.  Where are we to find shelter from the bewildering mischief at large today?  God is a shelter for the anxious ones when the all-too-muchness of the world threatens to overthrow our hearts.  We can bring our anxious thoughts to Him because he cares for us.  We can find rest in Jesus.

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the power to overcome the lies that has controlled one's life by choosing the truth.  Jesus said:  "...the Truth (alethia) will set you free."  God gives extraordinary freedom to those who dare to trust his Word.  Everyone of us must choose to be healed.  

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the necessity of loving one's enemies.  It is indeed an absurd notion, but alas it is not.  It is a serious spiritual reality to love one's enemies.  There are a host of legitimate reasons not to love one's enemies, and they are often valid and reasonable.  After all, one's enemies are often odious, rude, full of candid tales, and deeds of ruinous actions t...

This episode of Pneumatikos explores Job's powerful maturity as a believing one.  We will see that the attacks upon Job by the Satan and his friends did not provide an opportunity to sin.  Indeed, Job's maturity as a believing one is evident by his ability to control his tongue.  Job knew that whatever comes out of a man pollutes or stains his character so he would not allow himself to sin with hi...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore Job's chronic and disheartening spiritual grief.  Even faced with the interpretations of his misery by his counselor friends Job never capitulated to their particular schools or theorectical overlays about his personal grief narrative. Their theories, thought filled with self-congratulory wisdom were too narrow and filled with conclusions about why Job was...

This episode of Pneumatikos explores the power of God to meet us when we are emotionally and spiritually drained by life.  When David found that he could no longer fight the good fight of faith he fled to the cave or a hidden place so that he could gather up the fragmented pieces of himself, and find healing.  David did not know that Yahweh was thrusting him out of his old order of reality and int...

This episode of Pneumatikos explores the ability of Yahweh to infuse his tired ones with courage for those weary times in life.  There are times when  life become almost too much too bear, and you want to give up.  But don't give up,look up, and ask for Yahweh's power to heal fear and self-pity.  He is with you in the midst of those tough times when you are beset by dogged spiritual fog. When you...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore mindfulness as reaveled in the biblical documents.  Mindfulness is an ancient discipline that is not limited to one religious tradition. However, within the biblical documents mindfulness is enjoined for believing ones as a stablizing power.  Without focus we can begin to drift away from our faith and we will find ourselves adrift within the cosmic system....

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the reality of a poignant wisdom insight.  Deeds determine destiny may not be believed in post-western culture.  After all of the manipulative antics to overthrow the intrinsic principles of the universe there is the realization that without God the world does not make sense.  The technological utopian vision is found wanting because micro-chips and electro...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the vital spiritual necessity of growing in grace awareness, and experiential knowledge of Jesus.  Believing ones can only be winners in the cosmic system as they avail themselves of God's faithful provisions.  The temptations of the flesh are everywhere including the local churches.  We are living in the last days of this age or aeon and the church is unde...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the profound visionary commonwealth of formidable persons.  Formidable ones are chosen by God to supplant official reality.  They are hurled by God into situation specific environments in order to disrupt and inform the accepted idolatries of their time that they are an affront to the intrinsic order of creation.  Formidable ones shatter hubris and self-con...