A Sound Heart

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the new reality of acceptance in Christ.  In Christ ((Gk. en christos), is Paul's greatest and most vital prepositional phrase.  In Christ is a positional truth that bespeaks a powerful new estate for the believing one.  God gives us new life in Christ and he heals the wounds (trauma) left by sin too.  God's acceptance means that the ruin that persons have...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore a crisis event in the faith resume of Abram.  It is good to know that the one who would become the Friend of Yahweh had an event in his very successful life that shook his confidence.  The famine event was a test for Abram.  Empirical evidence supported his decision to leave the land, and he did so without considering the consequences of his actions.  How m...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the process of building a credible faith resume. Love and obedience are the foundation of a credible faith resume.  Real faith responds to the call of Yahweh without petulance and fear.  Fear is self-centeredness disguised as intellectual caution.  Love and obedience bespeak firmness in Yahweh.  Far above the teleological suspension of the ethical is the ab...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore God's test of Abraham.  Abraham was tested by Yahweh through love.  Anything else is worthless.  There is no teloelogical suspension of the ethical in this fertile narrative.  There is,however, a picture of firmness in Yahweh through the greatest threat in life.  Can we be trusted by Yahweh when he asks us to lean not on our own understanding?  Abraham and...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore God's gift of Jesus to the world.  God's gift of Jesus is the essense of real Liberation Theology.  God's gift was not political, and nor was it racial.  Jesus cannot be other than who he is-the Son of God.  There have been many attempts to make Jesus into a liberal socio-political revolutionary or a victim of psychosis. He is the Theanthropos.  He is God's...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the power filled love command of Jesus.  The foundation of the universe is love.  There are no ultimate particles.  There is no ultimate "stuff" to be found.  There is only love.  Heart intelligence is more important than the formal mathematical poetry of abstract discursive reason.  The universe is founded upon love because God (Gk. Theos) is love.  The br...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the primacy of love within the community of believing ones.  Jesus said that his disciples must love one another.  There is no argumentative appeal against this super ethos.  Love demonstrates that one has indeed passed over from death into the sphere of eternal life.  The biblical materials state that those who do not love do not have eternal life abiding...

This episode of Pneumatikos explores the necessity of giving up and giving over the relentlessly demanding self to the All Powerful Jesus. The ego that is not given over to God is a war with itself and,others, and knows no peace.  The will of the flesh cannot please God, and has no desire for God.  The rebellious ones imagine themselves intellectual giants because they have expunged God from the c...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the importance of sitting down to consider if one is ready for the radical call of disciplesip.  Disciplesip is a resurrection event.  The one called by Jesus must removed himself or herself out from among the spiritually dead. Discipleship is a decisive event that sets the called one within the milieu of dynamic God-controlled happenings.  One must not thi...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore prescriptive discipleship.  Only those who have decided to give up the unrelenting demands of the flesh (Gk. Sarx) can experience the power and meaning of discipleship.  Being a student of Christ can free an individual to know the compelling reality of life in Christ.  The flesh pleads its case for self- interest without relief.  The flesh knows that it can...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the co-crucified with Christ constant.  Believing ones are called to uphold the compelling ethos of the Christ event experientially.  Self interest must bow before the authority of Jesus.  Co-crucifixion with Christ is a mandate to once and for all give up carnal desires and enslaving lusts. How else can one answer the high calling of God in Christ Jesus? P...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the resurrection life (Gk. zoe) of Iesous lived out in the believing ones.  He is our life, and the life that we live in the flesh must be wholly His.  There is no compromise,or playing at religion.  It is the new reality of His presence that counts.  The weak idea of a managable deity is foreign to the pages of the biblical documents.  It is easy to stand...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the power of the New Being in Ieosus.  The Iesous did not come to establish a new religion.  He came to give his life as a ransome for many. There are those who propose that he never existed, but they have not studied the documents.  They have merely taken up the banner of unbelief and wrapped it in pseudo-intellectual garb.  Those who will not believe the...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the power of Iesous to defeat Chaos within the heart. Iesous is the incomparable Counselor.  He has a comprehensive awareness of our hearts, and we do not.  He exposed the disciples to themselves and their deepest fear that they would learn to trust not in themselves, but rather in God.  God had a greater plan for their lives but it could not be accessed by...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the Divine Warrior as the one who fights for the weak and powerless. He is the ancient one who ante-dates power politics and twisted economic agendas.  The Divine Warrior is not a True Believer in the tradition of Eric Hoffer.  He is, however, the one who circumvents and deconstructs the order of the cosmos.  He has fought with Rahab the primordial chaos mo...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the doctrine of the Divine Warrior.  The Divine Warrior is present throughout the biblical materials.  In the opening pages of the Genesis document he was present to arrest and subdue the threatening presence of Rahab or primordial discontent.  The Divine Warrior was present at the Sea of Reeds and with the blast of his nostrils made a way through the deep...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the necessity of the Word of God in our diabolic times.  This age of extraordinary technological advances believes that it can get along very well without God.  The average individual who is distracted with the indulgences of the flesh is not ready for the sobering reality that diabolic intrigue is immediately beind the veil of manipulated perception.  God,...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the rest that God offers to all in this age of chronic discontent.  Persons are given the illusion that this world has an answer to their spiritual discontent and it does not.   Real peace and rest are found in Iesous. The world manipulates, abuses and then tosses away the abused ones.  Depression and anxiety are on the rise, and are expected to be the grea...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the necessity of surrendering one's thought life to the lordship of Iesous.  There can be no definitive claim of a spiritual life without a sanctified thought life.  Our thinking must conform to the determined will of Iesous.  His super-normative thoughts are the template for our mundane thoughts.  Failure to conform to the will of Theos is rebellion, and a...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore healing words for our national identity crisis.  We are standing before the ontic abyss in our nation.  Blame and name calling will not suffice.  We are eager to point out the sins of others, but we will not address our own.  There is collective guilt not based on so-called "race" but on our self-estrangement from God.  Someone or some remote group is profi...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the ministry of Iesous as the one who bore our pain.  All persons experience pain in this life. Life is filled with painful events.  There are those who cause pain to others, and those who are the victims of painful behavior.  The human condition is such that a Savior is needed.  If Iesous did not exist it would be necessary to invent him. 

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the importance of spiritual toughness.  Life as many challenges and we must have the power of Theos at our disposal in order to be winner in life.

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the phenomenology of marriage as a living organism.  When Yahweh created marriage he created the wonderful way of being by which relational intimacy would powerfully demonstrate Divine Essense.  Yahweh is love (hesed).  Self- sacrifice is intrinsic to genuine love.  The character of a marriage is created by those who have braved the sacred space of marriage...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the power of an affair to ruin a good marriage.  All marriages have challenges, but that is not an excuse to ruin a sacred relationship by having an affair.  Sexual compromise in marriage has caused countless numbers of people extraordinary pain.  If you are contempating having an affair do yourself a great favor and cut off such thinking.  God will give yo...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the tempation to cheat in marriage.  The human creature is creatively cunning, and highly skilled in the art of self-deception.   Some may believe that they can hide the consequences of sin, but that poor assumption is based upon a lie.  The directive counsel of the biblical documents teaches that we must not sin sexually against our marriages.