Grace and Sanity Ministries

Complete list of programs available from Grace and Sanity Ministries. All are by Pauline Holmes unless they are identified as authored by Walter Arcel. Click here to go to an order form. Copies can be purchased for $11.00 for a one hour tape/CD of two programs (each numbered part of a series is one program lasting 26-28 minutes). We apologize for the high price, but we do not mass produce at this point.

Repentance: Series emphasizing that repentance from sin does not have to precede salvation

10. Repentance 1. Rebellion due to pride.

11. Repentance 2. Metanioa: how the change of heart is inspired by grace.

12. Repentance 3. Salvation precedes repentance from sin, not vice versa.

13. Repentance 4. The free gift that fosters metanioa.

14., 15., 16., 17., 18.

“Fear” series describes symptoms/cures of all the major anxiety disorders from a biblical perspective

18a. Fear 1. Bible basis of mental disorders in DSM anxiety category

18b. Fear 2. God's promises to overcome fear in Bible

18c. Fear 3. Overview of DSM anxiety disorders from a Bible perspective.

18d. Fear 4. Panic attacks 1.

18e. Fear 5. Panic attacks 2.

18f. Fear 6. Panic attacks 3.

18g. Fear 7. Simple phobias.

18h. Fear 8. Social phobia.

18i. Fear 9. Agoraphobia, commitment phobia.

18j. Fear 10. Generalized anxiety disorder.

18k. Fear 11. Post Traumatic Stress disorder

18l. Fear 12. Obsessive-compulsive disorder.

“Law/grace” series highlights consistency of God's Word from Genesis on (tape only)

25. Law/grace, 1. Day of Atonement.

26. Law/grace, 2. Jews by birth perhaps, surely by adoption.

27. Law/grace, 3. Passover.

28. Law/grace, 4. More Passover.

29. Law/grace, 5.

30. Law/grace, 6. Cities of refuge: Jesus Christ.

31. Law/grace, 7. “Today I was reading in Joshua” by Walter Arcel.

A discourse on the reality of both “Election and Free will” (tape only)

32. Election and Free Will, 1. Written by Walter Arcel.

33. Election and Free Will, 2.

34. Election and Free Will, 3.

35. Election and Free Will, 4.

36. Election and Free Will, 5., ending with “Feed my sheep” by Walter.

7-part series on “Believing in your heart” (tape only)

37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43.

3-part series on “Religious Addiction” (tape only)

109. part 1., 110. part 2., 111. part 3

The “Symptoms of major mental illness” and the root cause: the sense of deserving eternal damnation (tape only)

103 and 104. Symptoms of major mental illness 1 and 2. Introduction and answer to listener's question, 1. Psychotic delusions, religiosity and creativity, 2.

105. Mother with imprisoned, religiously-deluded son.

106 and 107. Origins of schizophrenia 1 and 2.

5-part series on “Why humans reject the Bible”

112a, 112b, 112c, 112d, 112e.

Two broadcasts (1 tape) based on P. Holmes' book: Hell and Madness; Grace and Sanity

114. Mythology, astrology, evolution and the Bible.

115. The Bible and scientific proof.

2-part (1 tape) series on the mental health crisis and why psychotherapy must be gospel-based, forming the basis for series 412 to 418.: 120 and 121.

2-part discussion (1 tape) of how secular psychotherapy leads us astray. Includes discussion of delusions of optimism and human goodness: 135 and 136.

Forgiveness series: The purpose of the series is to show that, secular psychology notwithstanding, true forgiveness comes only out of our sense of being eternally forgiven by God in spite of our depravity.

128a. Forgiveness 1: Biblical foundation.

128b. Forgiveness 2: Biblical foundation, ctd. The story of Joseph, a picture of the forgiveness of God.

128c. Forgiveness 3: The story of Joseph, ctd.

128d. Forgiveness 4: Interpretation of New Testament verses that can give the impression that salvation is contingent on human forgiveness, which is absolutely not the case.

128e. Forgiveness 5: Continuation of the topic begun the previous week.

128f. Forgiveness 6: The difference between forgiveness and punishment.

128g. Forgiveness 7: Psychological defenses we humans have against forgiving others, 1.

128h. Forgiveness 8: Psychological defenses, 2.

128i. Forgiveness 9: Interpersonal aspects of forgiveness, with examples, 1.

128j. Forgiveness 10: Interpersonal aspects, 2.

128k. Forgiveness 11.

128l. Forgiveness 12.

123m. Forgiveness 13: God’s forgiveness increases after the Flood.

“Dissociation:” The following 4-part series delves into the issue of the differentiation between possession and multiple personality disorder, also discussing other dissociative disorders (tape only)

142. Dissociative disorders and the Bible, 1.
143. Dissociative disorders and the Bible, 2.
144. Dissociative disorders and the Bible, 3.
145. Dissociative disorders and the Bible, 4.

Separation of church and state: 3-part series on the myth, why our constitutional freedoms depend on our being a nation under God (tape only)

150. Separation of church and state, 1.
151a. Separation of church and state, 2.
152a. Separation of church and state, 3.

“Grace in the Law” Series from P. Holmes' book

202. Grace in the Law 1. Intro to 2 major heresies: perfectionism and antinomianism.

203. Grace in the Law 2. Intro, ctd.

204. Grace in the Law 3. Dispensing with Dispensationalism.

205. Grace in the Law 4. Dispensing with Disp., ctd.

206. Grace in the Law 5. The reality of hell.

207. Grace in the Law 6. The reality of hell, ctd.

208. Grace in the Law 7. More on hell, effects of heresy: eternal.

209. Grace in the Law 8. Effects of heresy on personality.

210. Grace in the Law 9. Pseudo-atonement, perfectionist personality.

211. Grace in the Law 10. The law-rejecting personality.

212. Grace in the Law 11. More on the law-rejecting personality.

213. Grace in the Law 12. Grace, Christ in the OT 1.

214. Grace in the Law 13. Grace, Christ in the OT 2.

215. Grace in the Law 14. Grace, Christ in the OT 3.

216. Grace in the Law 15. Grace, Christ in the OT 4.

217. Grace in the Law 16. Against perfectionist interpretation of the NT 1.

218. Grace in the Law 17. Against perfect. in NT 2.

219. Grace in the Law 18. Against perfect. in NT 3.

220. Grace in the Law 19. Against perfect. in NT 4.

221. Grace in the Law 20. Against antinomian interpretation of the NT 1.

222. Grace in the Law 21. Against antinom. NT 2.

223. Grace in the Law 22. Against antinom. NT 3

224. Grace in the Law 23. Against antinom. NT 4

225. Grace in the Law 24. Against antinom. NT 5

226. Grace in the Law 25. Against antinom. NT 6

227. Grace in the Law 26. Against antinom. NT 7

228. Grace in the Law 27. Against antinom. NT 8

229. Grace in the Law 28. The Law for today 1

230. Grace in the Law 29. The Law for today 2

231. Grace in the law 30. The Law... 3 Circumcision

232. Grace in the law 31. The Law...4 Changes in the New Covenant

233. Grace in the Law 32. The wonderful truth.

Relationships: A series on the way in which successful human relationships depend on our relationship with God. Gives some lengthy illustrations of God's intervention into some previously dysfunctional relationships. Includes battered wife syndrome, adultery, mothers trapped in working outside the home.

235. Relationships 1. Good human relations depend on reconciliation with God.

236. Relationships 2. Three different kinds of love. How fear and pride interfere.

237. Relationships 3. God’s written contract. Selfishness of human nature. Ego defenses in human relations. Blaming.

238. Relationships 4. Parent/child relations. Two aspects of love.

239. Relationships 5. Parent/child relations: need for chastening.

240. Relationships 6. Parent/child relations: blaming parents, “splitting.”

241. Relationships 7. Parent/child relations: children addicted to abuse; honoring m/f versus neglecting them; denial of mortality.

242. Relationships 8. M/F relationships: God-given differences and why. “Mars and Venus.”

243. Relationships 9. M/F relationships: Individuation, Genesis, readiness for marriage.

244. Relationships 10. M/F relationships: False and true individuation. Rejection of femininity. Margaret and Dave case.

245. Relationships 11. M/F relationships. More on individuation. Dino, the passive aggressive male tied to mother.

246. Relationships 12. M/F relationships. Sex and Christians. Bill case. Guilt over marital sexuality.

247. Relationships 13. M/F relationships. Forgiveness: Sandra case. Boundaries: Carla case. Pre-marital sex: Linda case.

248. Relationships 14. M/F. Adultery, revenge, and forgiveness. Pastor case. Don Juanism: Neil case.

249. Relationships 15. M/F. Danger of unequal yoking. Alice case. Roxanne case.

250. Relationships 16. M/F. Self-esteem and co-dependency. Norma and counter-dependency.

251. Relationships 17. M/F. Co-dependency. Coke-addicted gambler case. Rage-aholism: Patty and Joe.

252. Relationships 18. M/F. Why women stay in battering relationships.

A view on overeating incorporating psychological knowledge reinterpreted biblically.

250a. Overeating 1. Explains Bible basis for addiction, depression.

251a. Overeating 2. Disease versus sin. Bulemia, anorexia as forms of pseudo-atonement.

252a. Overeating 3.

253. Overeating 4.

Series on self-mutilation, other forms of self-punishment, and the gospel-based solution (tape only).

255. Hell and self-mutilation, 1. Refuting Freud's death instinct. Suicidality as pseudo-atonement.

256. Hell and self-mutilation, 2. Body-piercing and self-mutilation as pseudo-atonement.

257. Hell and self-mutilation, 3. Eternal possibilities and hedging the bets.

258. Hell and self-mutilation, 4. Eternal poss., ctd. Summary.

Giants: A series on obstacles to faith and how to overcome them.

301. Giants 1. Faith is leaning; humans want tangible to support; OT evidence of tangible support from God.

302. Giants 2. Amnesia and Ebenezer; humans forget God’s past support.

303. Giants 3. What faith is and is not.

304. Giants 4. Denial of responsibility and seeking to be dependent on other humans.

Thanksgiving 2001: 305

Women: 3-part “post-feminist” good sense from God's Word

310. Women's role from a Biblical perspective 1.

311. Women's role, 2.

312. Women’s role, 3.

Series on why the gospel is essential to mental health (tape only)

412. Why the gospel is the only route to mental health, 1. How the spirit and the soul are inextricable.

413. Why..., 2. How mainstream psychotherapy has anti-God perspective.

414. Why..., 3. Existential despair regarding eternity: Our deepest mental health issue.

415. Why..., 4. How only the Gospel promotes psychological health.

416. Why..., 5. The true source of love.

417. Why..., 6. Psychological defenses and the one true Defender.

418a. Why..., 7. More on defenses: blinders and atoners.

418b. Why..., 8. How the reality of hell puts everything else in perspective.

Self-esteem series. The purpose is to show that the concept of self-esteem is a misnomer for Christians, why it does not promote mental health, and why the concept of being a forgiven sinner does promote mental health (tape only).

519. Self-esteem 1. Low self-esteem is existential guilt, a sense of deserving eternal damnation, and everybody has it.

520. Self-esteem 2. Flaws in humanist theory.

521. Self-esteem 3. Dangers of progressive education.

522. Self-esteem 4. II Timothy 3:2. The spiritual seekers who never reach the truth.

523. Self-esteem 5. The sociologists’ “looking glass self” versus God looking at us.

524. Self-esteem 6. Humanistic self-fixation versus Bible-based self-awareness.

524a. Self-esteem 7. Sin, conscience, and conflict. The Bible puts Freud and Jung in their place.

524b. Self-esteem 8. Self-esteem and dysfunctional human relations.

Series on perfectionism, where it comes from, how it creates psychopathology, how it is truly cured.

525. Perfectionism I: Understanding pathological perfectionism from a Bible perspective.

526. Perfectionism II: The Law and the damsel in distress.

527. Perfectionism III: Three types of perfectionist.

528. Perfectionism IV: More on the three types.

529. Perfectionism V: Obsessive -compulsive personality disorder explained by the Bible. Theories of Freud and Erickson. demolished.

530. Perfectionism VI: More on OCPD; kaphar, the covering; autonomy as rebellion.

Basic foundational series on grace and sanity. How the gospel is the only source of mental health.

550. Grace and Sanity 1. Overview of Bible basis for mental illness and mental health.

551. Grace and Sanity 2. False liberal or mercilessly legalistic doctrines pervading the field of Christian therapy. The true grace-based therapy.

552. Grace and Sanity 3. More on grace-based therapy. How gestalt principles explain it.

553. Grace and Sanity 4. Research on grace. Toxic perfectionist religions.

554. Grace and Sanity 5. Toxic religion and research on religiosity.

555. Grace and Sanity 6. Jung: a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

556. Grace and Sanity 7. Freud’s limited model compared to the unlimited Bible’s one.

557. Grace and Sanity 8. Ego defense mechanisms understood in light of existential guilt 1.

558. Grace and Sanity 9. Ego defenses 2.

559. Grace and Sanity 10. Ego defenses 3. Repression.

560. Grace and Sanity 11. Ego defenses 4. Defying God: acting out.

561. Grace and Sanity 12. Ego defenses 5. Compartmentalization.

562. Grace and Sanity 13. Ego defenses 6. Dissociation.

563. Grace and Sanity 14. Ego defenses 7. Analyzers and deflectors.

564. Grace and Sanity 15. Ego defenses 8. Paranoia, identification, pseudo-atonement as a psychological defense against hell.

565. Grace and Sanity 16. Ego defenses 9. Pseudo-atonement in form of self-punishment, self-mutilation.

566. Grace and Sanity 17. Ego defenses 10. Pseudo-atonement and false religions.

567. Grace and Sanity 18. Ego defenses 11. Pseudo-atonement, terrorism and sublimation.

568. Grace and Sanity 19. Overview of Bible-based treatment versus all the others.

Salvation: A basic series on what it means and issues related to it such as election versus free will, and predestination.

570. Salvation 1. What is salvation?

571. Salvation 2. Sin/hell equation.

572. Salvation 3. Guilt about evangelizing: Why?

573. Salvation 4. Blood on your hands.

574. Salvation 5. Election and free will.

575. Salvation 6. Feed my sheep; many are called but few are chosen.

576. Salvation 7. Hell.

577. Salvation 8. God’s good punishment (no, I’m not being masochistic).

578. Salvation 9. Hell as a tool.

579. Salvation 10. Unconscious awareness of hell.

580. Salvation 11. Hell in other religions.

581. Salvation 12. Hell and free will.

582. Salvation 13. Can you lose your salvation?

583. Salvation 14. Blood, mercy seat, pictures of grace in the Law.

584. Salvation 15. The bronze serpent and the law of the leper.

585. Salvation 16. Gospel in the OT.

586. Salvation 17. Forgiven patriarchs.

587. Salvation 18. Christ the Passover lamb.

588. Salvation 19. God commands us to be saved, proof of His love.

Psychological Integrity. A 7-part series on the essentialness of the gospel to integration of the human psyche: 600 to 606

Sanctification, or “against preaching against sin.” A series on how sanctification is misunderstood in the church, which has led to an intensification of guilt rather than the experience of freedom Christ’s atoning death offers.

Sanctification 1, library #607 up to Sanctification 6, #612.

Walter Arcel’s writing: The following are programs made from well-crafted evangelical writings by Walter Arcel.

4-part (two hour) Faith 101 series (tape only)

716. Faith 101 by Walter Arcel, read by P. Holmes, 1.
717. Faith 101, 2.
718. Faith 101, 3.
718a. Faith 101, 4.

Preaching against sin: 719.

“Ruminations on God” by Walter Arcel. Read by P. Holmes: 719a.

Walter's letter to a teen, read by Pauline Holmes: 714a.

2-part “What happens when you get to know God?” by Walter Arcel, read by Pauline Holmes: 729 and 730.

“A Simple Explanation” series, 12 weeks (2 tapes). P. Holmes reading a work by W. Arcel:

720. A Simple Explanation, 1.
721. A Simple Explanation, 2.
722. A Simple Explanation, 3.
723. A Simple Explanation, 4.
724. A Simple Explanation, 5.
And so on up to A Simple Explanation 11 and 12 focusing on a novel argument for the resurrection, 730 and 731

The reaction of Moses (tape): 734

Walter reading older version of Simple Explanation: 735 to 741

2-part series “What happens when you get to know God?” read by P. Holmes: 740 and 741