A Sound Heart

This episode of Pneumatikos explores those times in life when it becomes a burden to worship when the necessity of worship presses upon the conscience.  How does one address this spiritual impasse?  

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the power of God over the circumstances of life.  

This episode of Pneumatikos is for those with heart trouble.  Is your heart without peace? Do you want a peace that passes understanding? You need an encounter with the Iesous. 

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore Job's spiritual fortitude amid the relentless interrogation and scathing mockery of his friends.  Job's super- dependence on God sustains him even though God remains silent.  

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore Job's compelling steadfastness in the face of heartless mockery.  

The Cure of Souls is a ministry only for the spiritually mature( Pneumatikos,or Spiritual one), otherwise the one already suffering may experience deeper wounding. I have seen seen this occur first hand, and the brutal aftermath of bewilderment and palpable decay of the spirit.

This episode of Pneumatikos wil explore the famous patience of Job in the midst of his trials.  What was his secret?  Was he indeed patient?  

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the power of power to impose its state sanctioned interpretation upon our grief and suffering.  Job remains steadfast in his heart not to give up the fight to maintain his spiritual integrity.

The cause of Job's suffering is subjected to the apriori deductions of his friends.  Although they do not have a complete picture of Job's case they have nevertheless superimposed culturally sanctioned models upon what they believe to be his psychodynamic story.  

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the power of apriori (theoretical deduction) to miss the intrinsic poignancy of the empirical.  Job's "friends" chose to fit him into their respective causal models instead of considering him as a precious human document.  

Job was a believer who knew the powerful tension of worship and acute distress.  Through trauma and grief he found a way to remain faithful to God while suffering crushing affliction.  Is there a message here for us today? 

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore Job's resolve when faced with reversal of fortune in his blameless and upright life.  Job was an experimental witness to exquisite tension of theodicy, human suffering, and the freedom of God.

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the powerful Job narrative.  The Job narrative is the oldest book of the Old Testament. It is older than the Genesis material. The Job narrative joins two primal themes of existence together which are the mystery of suffering and the freedom of Yahweh-Elohim.

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the power of perseverance in life.  It is always to soon to quit. If you want something bad enough you must be tough enough to get it.  

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the way to life.  It is through the Iesous that one way come to experiential awareness of life infused with meaning.  We live in a time in which the Cult of the Absurd has blurred the path to life.

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the reality of the crucifixion of the Ego (self), and the new life(zoe) in Christ.  

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore Yahweh's relational name for His people.  It is through the "I Am That I Am" name that access is granted into Yahweh's dynamic milieu.  

This episode of Pneumatios will explore the significance of New Name motif in the biblical materials.  Theos gives a new name to those who are His own, and are intrinsically involved in His new "thing."  The new name is no mere referential discriptor, it is inherent to the milieu of Theos.

This episode of Pneumatikos explores the power of the Word of Theos to give hope and sustain the heart under seige by anxiety and doubt.  

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the aftermath of seduction.  Once the crisis of seduction has passed the individual is faced with the consequences of his actions. Listen to this episode of Pneumatikos and learn how to avoid the emotional, and spiritual abyss of unnecessary pain 

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the subtle wiles of seductive intrigue as presented in the biblical documents.  Learn how to prepare yourself not to be a victim of seduction.  Don't feel that you have to respond positively to manipulative words or actions.

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the malignancy of seduction,and its moral deconstruction of an individual's life.  Don't allow yourself to become a party to your own destruction.  We live in the tainted territory of the sexual "wild west" guard your heart from the sulfur laced lines of the seducer.

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the character of Love as revealed in the biblical documents.  In its essence love is self-sacrifice.  It is the willingness to give all for the object of one's love.

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore why an individual must guard his or her heart in a world that is filled with images that are designed to seduce, and corrupt the heart into betrayal of its most important intimate relationship.

This episode of Pneumatikos will explore the passionate temptation to cheat in one's relationship.  It is not enough to merely understand the nature of the temptation one must know that the "flesh" is the innate principle from which the desireto cheat originates.  Many, many, lives have been ruined as a result of the seductive betrayal of the temptation to cheat.