A Sound Heart

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the work of the Spirit of God in using formidable persons for prophetic ministry.  The dimension of prophetic ministry defines the effectiveness of ministry practice.  Ministry without a prophetic dimension cannot answer the Divine Imperative.  The Spirit of God creates the milieu of Grace servanthood within the hearts of those whose very lives are an answe...

This episode of Pneumatikos explores the power of the Spirit to create mighty ones who constantly look at the things that are of eternal value.  The mighty ones know that this age is being caused to pass away by God.  They are done with the hubris and shameless arrogance of the cosmic ones.  The Spirit of God is doing a new thing that is marvelous and is beyond human description. The Spirit is cre...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the power of the Spirit over the works of the flesh.  The problems within the community of the believing ones are all related to flesh-psychology.  Flesh psychology is the viewpoint of the cosmic system.  Flesh psychology is Neo-Baalism.  The proponents of flesh psychology believe that human viewpoint can answer the deepest needs of the human heart.  They h...

This episoed of Pneumatikos will explore the importance of walking by means of the Spirit.  The life of the believer is supernatural, and therefore completely dependent upon the power of God.  When a believer walks by means of the Spirit he or she is living within the will of God.  If a believer is not living in the will of God he or she is following cosmic values mandated by the sarx or flesh.  W...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the importance of self-acceptance. God has made us all unique and wonderful.  We should give thanks to him for the gift of personhood.  You are accepted by God in Christ Jesus.  You must allow no other interpretation of your unique personhood to trample upon your spirit. Many,however,cannot accept themselves because they are fragile and unfamiliar with self...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore excuse- making as a practice of chronic inaction. It's important to know that we can facilitate self-injury through negative self-talk.  The ability to change our reality orientation is an innate part of our humanity.  You have the image of God in your heart.  Believe that reality and move out in life.  Certain doors will not open to you, but others will op...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the necessity of sacred space in spiritual warfare.  The sacred space in spiritual warfare is within the soul or kardia.  The armour of Theos (God) mainly has defensive parts,and the only offensive weapon is the sword of the Spirit, namely the Word of Theos (God).  Therefore, those who engage in spiritual warfare must have souls and bodies unsullied by the...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the reality of spiritual warfare. It should come as no surprise that the community of the believig ones is under attack.  The Word of God bears constant witness to this poignant reality.  God's people are tested and probed for weaknesses and points of intrusion.  There is always some new insight about the person of Jesus that has hitherto been unknown and s...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the power of the living Jesus to heal the soul that is burdened with spiritual pain.  The rest that Jesus offers will release the weary soul from the weight of self and other abuse that has frozen one's life.  Human beings will seek out many ways to get rid of painful memories and events, and some can be very destructive, but God can be trusted to take one'...

This episode of Pneumatikos explores the radical message of the Gospel as God's powerful undertaking in history.  The Gospel is provocative and compelling. It's ethos is inherently built upon decisive action. One must decide as to whether he or she will hear the Gospel with a view to obeying its message or reject its claims and incur the consequences thereof.  The Gospel is God's answer to the gre...

This episode of Pneumatikos explores the power of the Gospel and its singular ability to meet the deepest needs of the human heart.  The striptease of humanism has proven its moral vapidity,and utter inability to provide a refuge for the shattered and needy heart.  The Gospel of Jesus Christ is the wisdom of God to win us out from sinful abandon.  Sin is deceitful.  It would woo us into agreement...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the Spirit's power to lead us out of that thrown away and thrown out mentality.  Some spiritual pain is so deep that is buried alive in the recesses of the soul, and other types of spiritual pain are articulated through somatic wounding or injury.  The power of God is available to lead us out of the wilderness of spiritual darkness.  God's power or dunamis...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the necessity of forgiveness.  The teaching of Jesus on the subject of forgiveness is priceless.  He truly is the Wonderful Counselor.  He knows that life throws situations and realities at us that can cause unspeakable pain.  He also knows that our reaction to an injustice can be unforgiveness.  More importantly, unforgiveness can open the door to resentme...

This episode of Pneumatikos explores the importance of being dead to the practice of sin.  The cosmic system does not, nay, it cannot understand the nature and reality of sin.  For some sin is tantamount to psycho-pathology, but sin is deeper that any theory or observational reportage.  Sin inhabits the neurons of the brain,and the heart.  How else to explain the insidious and evil deeds that are...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the explosive growth of nihilism in post-western culture. What is, is right is the mantra of post-western nihilism.  The content of western culture has been expertly removed without alarm or even feeble protest from the bewildered masses.  People have been so manipulated by unrelenting pseudo gamesmanship that they are exhausted, bewildered, and wounded wit...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the redemptive Christology of Paul.  Paul was not called of God to establish a religion based on Jesus. Paul was called of God to teach the redemptive power of the cross of Christ.  Paul's greatest desire was to be conformed to the image of Christ, and to that end he dedicated his life.  Paul was one of the greatest legal minds in history, and he knew the l...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the reality of the intrinsic power of Grace.  Grace or Charis is God's undeserved kindness toward those who were ruined by sin.  We have been saved by Grace through the instrumentality of faith, and not by works.  Grace is the gift of God.  The appropriate response to God's Grace gift is acceptance.  We are informed by the biblical documents that Grace is s...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the saving activity of Yahweh in this day of nefarious and planned soul murder. Soul murder is the planned or ritualized destruction of an individual through the too-muchness of stimuli that wounds one's identity to the core.  The person is lost on purpose,and set adrift upon the raging sea of managed perplexity.  Reduced to a bio-automaton he does not know...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the power of the Word of God to renew and revitalize the soul that as been undone by acts of attempted or completed soul murder.  Soul murder is the act of the powerful shamelessly abusing the powerless.  Acts of soul murder are usually hidden in our culture, but our culture is disintegrating because it refuses to repent of its sins.  In fact, our culture d...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the importance of inner spiritual wellness.  For optimum spiritual wellness we all should practice the art and skill of effective listening.  Real listening is a somatic investment of the heart.  Being slow to speak means that one's tongue is under the power of the Holy Spirit, and being slow to anger means that one has seen the folly of the results of outb...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the resurrected Jesus as the singular and incontrovertible exhibit of the world's greatest event.  The naysayers may decry the resurrection of Jesus on venal emotion and pseudo-intellectual rot, but Jesus presented himself alive after the crucifixion by an abundance of evidence.  The first century physician-theologian Luke uses a particular word in his prol...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the witness pool that saw Jesus alive after the crucifixion. Evidence for an event required at least two witnesses in the legal system of that time.  According to the painstaking research conducted by the writer of the Gospel of Mark, the physician-theologian Luke, the brilliant legal scholar-theologian Paul, and other New Testament writers Jesus was subjec...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the sufficient nature of the resurrection accounts as given by the New Testament writers.  The writers of the New Testament documents were moved or borne along by the Spirit of God to produce the autographs.  None of the original autographs are in existence today.  We have, however, manuscript families, lectionaries, the writings of the church Fathers, and...

The resurrection of Jesus redefined history.  It is, in fact, the most important event in history. The supporting evidence for his resurrection is sufficient because there is compelling forensic material and eye witness accounts to support it.  There may be few references to Jesus in the writings of historians outside of the community, but the apostle-theologians of the New Testament have penned a...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the saving activity of Yahweh in the three tenses of salvation. We have been saved from the penalty of sin, we are now being saved from the power, and we will be saved from the  presence of sin.  Sin is lack of conformity to the character of Yahweh whether act, disposition, or state. We may psychologize human actions, and behavior, and seek cultural sensiti...