A Sound Heart

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the struggle of faith when society has abolished sanity.  Sanity is a construct of the mind that operates social contract.  It is also abolished by social contract.  The monistic paradigm is under seige today by the powers of this present age.  The abandonment of Yahweh has its own consequences.  How must believing ones live during the widespread social unr...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore a causal link of spiritual suffering and physical disease.  Pride is a silent killer.  It is undetectable to the untrained eye.  There is no physical sign that it is in the heart, but it is a major cause of heart disease.  We will study the case of a man who had to fight his pride in order to be restored to wholeness.

This episode of Pneumatikos explores the necessity of the imputed righteousness of Iesous in our lives.  Our salvation is the gift of Theos.  Not only is He righteous by nature, but we receive his righteousness through the Iesous so that we can have a right relationship with Him.  This God type of righteousness is given to the believing one at the point of salvation.  It can never be earned or pur...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the necessity of having a real relationship with Theos.  We are living in the last days of this aeon(age).  Those who do not have a saving relationship with Theos may still come to the cross,and receive his gift of eternal life.  Look carefully around,and do you really see a viable alternative?  Don't live on useless rhetoric and meaningless sound bites.  T...

This episode of Pneumatikos will expose the truth of the selfie phenomenon.  Yahweh's word has much to say about the last days and those who are entralled by their own images.   The generation that loves itself in this manner has lost the capacity to know that real life is about knowing God, and giving and receiving love.  

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore Paul's great words to Timothy concerning the " good fight of faith."  We live in days wherein the faith once for all given to the saints is under attack on all fronts.  The faith and practice that once defined western culture is being cast aside for insidious pragmatic humanism.  The Light cannot be overtaken by darkness, but the darkness is ever trying to...

This episode of Pneumatikos explores the book of Ezekiel and Yahweh's search for a man who stand in the gap and lift up the banner of truth and righteousness before a nation that had lost its way.  When a nation turns against Yahweh its leadership disintegrates and fails to govern appropriately, and darkness takes over in every area.  Yes, there is the language of cohesion and unity, but the reali...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the ministry of the Good Shepherd in the lives of believing ones.  It is a ministry that defines a strategic role of Theos toward believers.  This is a dangerous world and the Good Shepherd provides a needed security buffer for us.  The hirelings are the false shepherds who care nothing for the sheep(us), and who will run off when we are threatened with abu...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the conversion of Paul as a primary exhibit of Grace.  Grace or charis is a noun of action.  Charis is God's profound action of rescue out from the bondage of harmartia(sin).  The conversion of Paul was accomplished by the grace action of God.  Paul was lifted out of darkness by grace.  The grace action of Theos never grew dim or old for Paul.  He knew that...

This episode of Pneumatikos explores the Iesous as the Light of Life.  Paul met the resurrected Iesous as he journed to Damascus.  The Iesous interrogated Paul's life on that fateful day.  The Light had exposed Paul's life-lie with incomparable and cogent insight.  Paul could offer no defense even though he had highly trained legal skills.  The Iesous would only except Paul's submission to his wil...

This episode of Pneumatikos explores the creative encounter of outraged darkness and the light that will not be compromised by the temporal ascendency of evil.  Evil is blind to the intrinsic reality of its own demise.  Paul's evil mission to havoc the saints in Damascus was stopped suddenly by a powerful light that threw him into the earth.  The power of God is not benign nor is it passive. God m...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore Paul's salvation event on the road to Damascus.  Pual was the hired hammer of the Sanhedrin council.  The council of elders had given formal assent to the prescriptive words of rabbi Gamaliel,and yet continued on in their futile attempt to stop the movement of the way

This episode of Pneumatikos explores Paul's conversion as a pivotal and radical event in salvation history.  Paul's old milieu was overthrown by the Iesous himself on the Damascus road.  Paul was seized by the phos(light)of the Lord.  His conversion was a pattern of Grace in the church age.  Paul's conversion was an exhibit Grace toward the chief of sinners.  

This episode of Pneumatikos explores Paul's radical committment to the resurrected Christ.  Paul's salvation event fully set him on a different path which is the upward call of Theos in Iesous.  Paul fully filled in after the Lord. Paul's clarity and focus demands our study and committment to follow him as he followed Christ.  Paul's life was infused with the resurrection power of Jesus.     

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore Paul's experience of resurrection power.  Paul's lie was radically transformed by his encounter with the living Iesous.  He would never be the same because of God's grace gift.  We too are blessed by God's incomparable grace gift in the Iesous.  

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore God's power toward us who believe in Him.  We are gifted with the resurrection of Christ so that we may live before God in practical sanctification.  We have positional sanctification through Grace,but practical sanctification manifests itself in a Spirit filled walk, and life of power.  God's power transforms our lives into wonderful exhibits of the unsear...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the cult of the trivial in western culture.  Paul Goodman ably captured in today's terms what the ancient biblical documents prophetically foretold about these days.  A time would come when soullessness would overtake the children of our time and they would tell us in their own way that we are on the wrong track.  The children are saying to the "adults" phy...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the reality of resurrection power.  Resurrection power as revealed in the New Testament is God's power (dunamis) that brought back the mutilated form of Jesus from the dead,and provided him his archetypal resurrection body.  Resurrection power is available today for the constantly believiing ones.  Are you in need of God's resurrection power in your life? 

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the necessity determination to win the spiritual race.  This great race is supernatural, and calls for the unimpeded power of God to win.  God's power is hindered when the believing one has not cast off from his life the burdens of unnecessary pain,and conflict.  The love of Christ is the healing ethos in the faith race. 

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the race of spiritual endurance.  There are times when the greatest obstacle we face are ourselves.  There are time when we lack the courage to continue,and we arrange a constellation of symptoms to mask our want of resolve to win the race of faith.  God, however, is faithful, and he has provided all that we need for life and godliness.  Resolve to be a win...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the nature and character of the race (agona) of the believing ones.  The race of the believing ones calls for strict discipline and committment. Those who run this race must cast off every mass or burden that hinders success. Mental attitude sins, moral sins, and sins of the spirit must be set aside.  A great cloud of believers  who have already run the rac...

This episode of Pneumatikos explores the exacting work of reconstructing ruined lives by the Spirit of God.  The Spirit of God carefully examines the wounds left by sinful thoughts and actions before applying the healing balm of restoration.  Sin deceives the heart and then abandons in deepest consequence.

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the power of Yahweh our restorer.  The chaos monster ravages our lives and applies the lash of chronic harassment to hasten our undoing. The chaos monster skillfully baits us with the fool's gold of pleasure without consequence and self-will with lawless abandon.  In the end we find that we deconstructed ourselves for naught.  God is still offering salvatio...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the power of the Sprit of God over the soul's desolation.  We live in a time that I shall call the New Dark Ages.  The New Dark Ages are the result of the spiritual apathy.  The New Spirituality is the answer for the spiritual malaise that has reduced persons to animated shadows.  The New Spirituality is hollow,shallow, and wanting of real meaning.   It is...

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the Spirit's power to create life in the midst of ruin. In a world that is a "Ball Of Confusion" we need to return to the biblical documents and faith if we are to continue. Isn't it obvious that political expediency and moral turpitude has failed?  Isn't it obvious that legal fiat and manipulative cunning has stolen the heart of the nation?  Isn't it obvio...