This
is our enlightening 12-part "Fear" series. See how common anxiety
disorders such as panic attacks, phobias and post-traumatic stress
stem from the universal, innate sense of being damned:
Fear 1: Human anxiety comes out of
an inborn sense of deserving damnation
Fear 1:
Fear 2: Afraid to fear? Sounds like a contradiction
in terms but the mistake made by today's church is to teach that
if they have fear it means they are not saved
Fear 2:
Fear 3: Overview of how all the anxiety disorders fit
with in a Bible framework (by the way, we use the King James). Example
of P Holmes' panic on the LA shuttle
Fear 3:
Fear 4: Panic attacks: intensity unexplainable if not
from unconscious fear of hell
Fear 4:
Fear 5: Panic attacks, ctd
Fear 5:
Fear 6: More on panic and phobias
Fear 6:
Fear 7: Simple phobias; how the most common phobias are
metaphors for eternal damnation
Fear 7:
Fear 8: Agoraphobia (fear of being out in the open) and
social phobia (fear of being exposed in front of people): sense
of the dark side
Fear 8:
Fear 9: More on social phobia; also commitment phobia,
a characteristic of adult children of divorce
Fear 9:
Fear 10: Generalized anxiety disorder, or
"all of the above"
Fear 10:
Fear 11: Post-traumatic stress disorder and the deeper
fear that fuels its persistent symptoms
Fear 11:
13 part series. In recent years the secular world of psychotherapy has recognized the mental health benefits of forgiveness. However, secular treatments cannot lead to genuine forgiveness, which is a fruit of the spirit.Forgiveness 1. Humans cannot forgive until they know God has forgiven
them
Forgiveness 1
Forgiveness 2, More on the Law's foundation of human forgiveness;
the story of Joseph as a picture of the forgiveness of God
Forgiveness 2
Forgiveness 3, The story of Joseph, ctd
Forgiveness 3
Forgiveness 4, Forgive us...as we forgive others. Do you
have to forgive others before God will save you?
Forgiveness 4
Forgiveness 5, Forgive to be saved?, ctd
Forgiveness 5
Forgiveness 6, Forgiveness versus a punishment orientation
Forgiveness 6
Forgiveness 7, Forgiveness, defensiveness, and the Lord's
prayer
Forgiveness 7
Forgiveness 8, Grace and defensiveness. Why human defensiveness
stops us from being able to forgive
Forgiveness 8
Forgiveness 9, How defensiveness leads to unconscious revenge,
with real-life examples
Forgiveness 9
Forgiveness 10, How defensiveness, ctd.
Forgiveness 10
Forgiveness 11, The terrible dilemma behind those defenses.
Forgiveness 11
Forgiveness 12, Revenge, and and the only means of eradicating
the burning desire to get back at someone.
Forgiveness 12
Forgiveness 13, The flood account as a picture of the forgiveness
of God in the OT
Forgiveness 13
Series on Christians, overeating, other addictions. Do Christians judge those addicted to drugs and alcohol and ignore the beam in their own eye? If so, why?Overeating 1: Bible explanation of addictions and depression: hunger
to escape eternal damnation
Overeating 1
Overeating 2: Disease versus sin model; discussion of bulemia,
anorexia as forms of pseudo-atonement, i.e., unconsciously trying
to pay for your own sin
Overeating 2
Overeating 3: How come so much unquestioned obesity in
the Christian church?
Oveeating 3
Overeating 4: Mood elevation: food as mood elevator versus
the truth as mood elevator
Overeating 4
Women's role series. On sex-linked roles and their benefits from a Bible perspective.Women's role 1, What
is it that characterizes a Christian man and woman?
Women's role 2, Why
does being equally yoked matter? The wimpy man and the domineering woman
example
Women's role 3, How
God-given male/female differences and God's recipe for parent/child relations
benefit families
Giants:
on obstacles to faith and how to overcome them:Giants 1, How Christ vanquished the giants for all time.
Giants 1
Giants 2, Human defense mechanisms versus leaning on God.
Giants 2
Giants 3, Fear of hell, the biggest giant.
Giants 3
Giants 4, God told the children of Israel to walk right
into the Promised Land. Ten of the twelve spies that were sent in
to survey the Land came back crying about giants, leading the Israelites
into the rebellion God punished by killing all those over 20 years
and expanding their stay in the wilderness to 40 years. This is
the way we humans are and it gets us into big trouble.
Giants 4
Our basic "Grace and Sanity"¯ series on why psychotherapy is
ineffective unless it is gospel-based. Find out about the basic,
inborn conflict that underlies all religions and causes the guilt
that leads to mental illness. Freud had no idea about the true source
of all the defense mechanisms he found in his patients. Only the
Bible explains them, and offers the only viable remedy. This is
useful information for all, especially those with a psychological
background:Grace and Sanity
1, introduction to the series, Pauline Holmes' conversion
Grace and
Sanity 2, grace vs secular approaches to mental health
Grace and
Sanity 3, perfectionism versus grace; right and left wing perfectionism
Grace and
Sanity 4, research on the mental health benefits of grace; comparative
religions
Grace and
Sanity 5, Carl Jung's false notions of spirituality; toxic religions
Grace and
Sanity 6, When people talk about abandonment fear, they really mean a
realistic sense of being separated from God. Only recognition of Christ can
cure this fear
Grace and
Sanity 7, More on the useful parts of Jung's theories; Walter's monthly
broadcast
Grace and
Sanity 8, Where Jung and Sigmund Freud help us understand our existential
conflict, and where they are off base
Grace
and Sanity 9, Freud, and the difference between psychological defense
mechanisms and the one true defense against eternal damnation: the shed blood of Christ
Grace and
Sanity 10, primitive psychological defenses that keep us from facing the
truth
Grace and
Sanity 11, More on those primitive self-deceits
Grace and
Sanity 12, On the more sophisticated self-deceits
Grace and
Sanity 13, Several psychiatric disorders from a Bible perspective:
Multiple personality, fugue state, etc
Grace and
Sanity 14, What have idealization and devaluation to do with fear of
hell?
Grace and
Sanity 15, Paranoia, the projection of the existential conflict onto worldly things, and the
futile but fascinating defenses we call “pseudo-atonement"‚¯ actions that strive to pay the penalty
for sin.
Grace and
Sanity 16, More on pseudo-atonement.
Grace and
Sanity 17, More on pseudo-atonement, focusing on "undoing"¯ in bulemia, and
anorexia
Grace and
Sanity 18, Sublimation, or doing good deeds as a futile way to escape eternal damnation
Grace and
Sanity 19, Denial of the law (antinomianism) as another futile defense
The entire 11-part series on perfectionism. It explains how perfectionism derives from the inborn awareness that one flaw separates humans from God, and that this separation is accompanied by a terrible eternal consequence. This reality is the underlying premise of all religions. We talk about the fact that all false religions offer only the impossible: human attainment of perfection as the way to escape eternal separation from God. The Bible alone has a viable remedy: God allows us to claim the perfection of Jesus.
This is imputed, or attributed, perfection. It makes us
acceptable to God, enabling us to escape damnation and have
eternal life in heaven.Perfectionism 1,
The difference between perfectionism and healthy striving
Perfectionism 2,
How grace counteracts perfectionism; the Levitical laws of sacrifice and
Christ as their fulfillment
Perfectionism 3,
How perfectionism is related to guilt and sin, and how sin is broader than
morality
Perfectionism 4,
The process of gaining freedom from perfectionism through internalizing the
payment Christ made
Perfectionism 5,
Seeing the perfectionism in false “toxic"¯ religions
Perfectionism 6,
Secular forms of perfectionism that nevertheless have the same existential
basis as the religious forms
Perfectionism 7,
How perfectionism arises in humans: the inborn, universal part and the learned
part that deepens or varies it
Perfectionism 8,
Why there are different kinds of perfectionism; how mental illness is
connected with perfectionism
Perfectionism 9,
Depression, anxiety, bulemia and borderline perfectionism
Perfectionism 10,
Obsessive-coompulsive disorder and perfectionism; Walter's monthly
broadcast
Perfectionism 11,
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder; theories about it from Freud and
Erikson vs the truth in the Bible
"Sanctification"
series, talking about the problems caused by preaching against sin. Points out
the deadly focus on salvation through self-sanctification,
or becoming Christlike through one's own efforts, in today's church.
This preoccupation is not Scriptural and it does the opposite of
feeding humans spiritually. It leaves them more hopeless than ever,
sensing they are on the road to hell, desperately needing to know
the free availability of Christ's atoning death, yet feeling
barred from it. Instead, they need to hear that His shed blood pays for all
sin, and that claiming this God-given gift is the only prerequisite
for salvation.
Sanctification
1, The need to dwell on the gift of salvation. This alone leads
to inner transformation.
Sanctification 2,
Preaching against sin only leads to rebellion.
Sanctification 3,
The end run by the Holy Spirit
Sanctification 4,
The human ego and its selfish need for salvation. God catches us through our
selfishness, not through any inherent desire to please Him
Sanctification 5,
The transforming effect of salvation by grace. First he loved us.
Sanctification 6,
The bad news and the good news: unworthy but forgiven. You're not holy unless
you see how corrupt you are
20 episode series called "Relationships."
Our relationship with God is like a tuning fork. When it is in tune,
all our other relationships fall into line behind it. This series
is illustrated with many common problems in parent/child and male/female
relations. You will see how they transform when the knowledge of being
saved by grace comes into the picture.
Relationships 1,
Establish a relationship with God through Christ, and all your other
relationships will fall in line behind it
Relationships
2, Three different kinds of love, and how fear and pride stop us from
entering them
Relationships
3, More on the transforming role of dependence on God
Relationships
4, Parent/child relations; love and guilt
Relationships
5, Parent/child relations; today's fear of disciplining children and how
it leads to dysfunctional adults
Relationships
6, Parent/child relations; blaming parents; children addicted to being
abused-why?
Relationships
7, Parent/child relations; parental neglect, why honor mother and father?;
and denial of death
Relationships
8, Male/female relations; embracing the God-given sex difference and using
the different strengths to advantage
Relationships
9, Male/female relations; m/f differences, false assertiveness versus true
individuation, which involves dependence on God
Relationships
10, Male/female relations; true versus false individuation,
rejection of femininity-the Margaret and Dave story
Relationships
11, Male/f relations; how to cope with the issue of feminism
versus male authority
Relationships
12, Male/female relations; sex, guilt and Christians; the story
of Bill
Relationships
13, Male/female relations; importance of forgiveness, story
of Sandra
Relationships
14, Male/female relations; revenge, e.g. the adulterous pastor
Relationships
15, Male/female relations; the why of equal yoking, story of
Alice
Relationships
16, Male/female relations; Self-esteem and co-dependency
Relationships
17, Male/female relations; Co-dependency, story of Patty
Relationships
18, Male/female relations: Pseudo-atonement and why women stay
with batterers (men too)
Relationships 19, Advice on marriage 1, especially
for those afraid of it
Relationships
20, Advice on marriage 2.
"Salvation" series dealing with issues surrounding our eternal destiny:Salvation 1, How
salvation is widely misunderstood as merely a worldly event like quitting
substance abuse
Salvation 2,
Reason to believe that the sin=death/hell equation is born in us
Salvation 3, The
outward and inward signs of a believer, and how this might differ from what is
preached in the church
Salvation 4,
Blood on my hands: Am I my brother's keeper?
Salvation 5,
More questions about election and free will
Salvation 6,
What might Jesus really mean when he says ‚¬“many are called
but few are chosen"?
Salvation 7, Why
should I believe in hell, won't it just turn me away from the idea of a loving
God?
Salvation 8,
More on hell; how eternal damnation is not inconsistent with a loving God
Salvation 9, How
the existence of hell benefits humans eternally
Salvation 10,
Perfectionist flaws in false religions examined; what perfectionism does to
the human psyche; more iimportantly, what it does to our eternal destiny
Salvation 11,
How it is that only a Christian feels safe enough to know how corrupt he is
Salvation 12,
Hell and free will
Salvation 13,
Can you lose your salvation?
Salvation 14,
The mercy seat above the stone tablets in the holy of holies; what this
picture does to give assurance to us
Salvation 15,
The law of the leper, and other assurances of salvation by grace in the law
Salvation 16,
More assurances of grace in the OT
Salvation 17,
Those OT patriarches: corrupt sinners like the rest of us but loved and chosen
by God. This shows that God does not demand perfection in us
Salvation 18,
Christ in the Psalms: loud and clear
Salvation 19,
Christ throughout the OT
Salvation 20,
Christ in the Passover
Salvation 21,
About the Day of Atonement, one of the many pictures of Christ in the law
The entire book
"Grace in the Law,"¯ by Pauline Holmes. It shows the consistency of
God's saving grace from Genesis on. It is not just a NT phenomenon. Mercy was in
the law from the beginning. By no means did Jesus come here to start
a new religion. You can purchase a copy of this book by pressing the
button at the top of this page that is labelled "Order form."¯Grace in the Law 1,
What's this book about? 2 basic, deadly heresies
Grace in the Law 2,
More on the 2 heresies: law without grace, and grace without law
Grace in the Law 3,
Dispensing with dispensationalism Grace in the Law 4,
More on dispensing with dispentationalism
Grace in the Law 5,
Evidence of hell
Grace in the Law 6,
More evidence of hell
Grace in the Law 7,
The eternal, damning effects of heresy
Grace in the Law 8,
How heresy affects the human personality
Grace in the Law 9,
The right-wing merciless personality who uses pseudo-atonement defense
mechanisms
Grace in the Law 10,
The dissociated, repressed left-wing personality who uses law-rejection as a
defense
Grace in the Law 11,
The left-wing personality, ctd
Grace in the Law 12,
Christ in the OT; grace in the law: against a perfectionist interpretation of
the Old Testament
Grace in the Law 13,
Christ in the OT, ctd
Grace in the Law 14,
Christ in the OT, ctd
Grace in the Law 15,
Christ in the OT, ctd
Grace in the Law 16,
See the grace in the law in the NT! Against a perfectionist interpretation of
the New Testament. Looks at key passages that are widely misinterpreted
Grace in the Law 17,
Against NT perfectionism, ctd
Grace in the Law 18,
Against NT perfectionism, ctd
Grace in the Law 19,
Against NT perfectionism, ctd
Grace in the Law 20,
Against NT perfectionism, ctd
Grace in the Law 21,
See law in the grace in the NT! Against a liberal (antinomian) interpretation
of the New Testament. Looks at several passages that have been widely
misinterpreted
Grace in the Law 22,
Against NT liberalism, ctd
Grace in the Law 23,
Against NT liberalism, ctd
Grace in the Law 24,
Against NT liberalism, ctd
Grace in the Law 25,
Against NT liberalism, ctd
Grace in the Law 26,
Against NT liberalism, ctd
Grace in the Law 27,
Against NT liberalism, ctd
Grace in the Law 28,
Is it only the moral law that is relevant for today? Are other parts of the
law relevant?
Grace in the Law 29,
The law for today, ctd
Grace in the Law 30,
Circumcision for today?
Grace in the Law 31,
What changes with the New Covenant?
Grace in the Law 32,
The wonderful truth
"Repentance" series
on the true meaning of the term: turning. Despite what you hear in
the church, salvation does not require repentance from sin to precede
it or to bring it about. No, it requires a different type of repentance:
doing a "180" turn towards God. When you see that Christ
paid the entrance fee for you, this makes you want to run into God's arms, safe
forever from the lake of fire. Only after you realize all is forgiven--past, present and future--and the Holy Spirit starts shining light into you, do you feel safe
enough to look at yourself and see how corrupt you (as a member of the human race) are. You open up and confess to God, claiming His forgiveness in the name of Jesus.Repentance 1,
Looking at the meaning of reprentance as simply turning, not having to involve
repentance from sins. You stop turning away
from God and you turn towards Him. But how?
Repentance 2,
The change of heart, or metanioa, or repentance inspired by 2 things: the
reality of hell coupled with the blood of Christ that keeps us out
Repentance 3,
How can I be so sure that salvation precedes repentance from sin when the
church has it the other way around?
Repentance 4,
The nature of the free gift that makes our hard little human hearts melt
Repentance 5,
The frog prince as an allegory of human transformation; Walter's monthly
broadcast
Repentance 6,
The lion's cage and the rescue
Repentance 7,
How to truly relax at the deepest level in the spa of God's grace
Repentance 8,
King David and denial; why humans refuse to see their own evil
Repentance 9,
How we spit in the face of God with our willful ignorance; Walter's monthly
broadcast
Whatever
happened to evangelism? Series on what evangelism is; the essentialness
of evangelism; why a person saved from eternal damnation urgently
wants others to know about the shed blood of Christ that redeems humans
from this fate; and why evangelism has disappeared from the Christian
church
Evangelism 1: What is the good news? What is church talking about instead?
Evangelism 1
Evangelism 2: What motivates evangelism?
Evangelism 2
Evangelism 3: Truth and lies about why Jesus came.
Evangelism 3
Evangelism 4: The main thing. Why Jesus came to die for us.
Evangelism 4
Evangelism 5: What makes us love God?
Evangelism 5
Evangelism 6: No transformation before salvation, no repentance
from sin before the Holy Spirit enters.
Evangelism 6
Evangelism 7: Before you are moved to tell others, you have to
feast on salvation as a total gift. Example: The starving lepers
Evangelism 7
Evangelism 8: What is the food, and who are the sheep?
Evangelism 8
Evangelism 9: Who does the feeding and who do you feed?
Evangelism 9
Evangelism 10: How do I evangelize?
Evangelism 10
Evangelism 11: The psychopath of human nature, and how to talk
to it.
Evangelism 11
Evangelism 12: It's not about you; don't take it personally. Expect
rejection and toughen up so you can spread the truth just as the
cultists spread their lies.
Evangelism 12
Evangelism 13: Different modes and levels of approach when you
tell the gospel.
Evangelism 13
Evangelism 14: Shy evangelists.
Evangelism 14
Evangelism 15: Dealing with discouragement.
Evangelism 15
Evangelism 16: Satan in the church.
Evangelism 16
Evangelism 17: The church of Laodicea and the church of "highs.
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Evangelism 17
Evangelism 18: If you are going to attend an organized church...
Evangelism 18
Evangelism 19: Common questions in the follow-up period.
Evangelism 19
Evangelism 20: General issues related to spreading the gospel;
2 essays by Walter: A pardon w-o conditions, Credibility.
Evangelism 20
Evangelism 21: includes 2 essays by Walter: End times, Who has
heard?
Evangelism 21
Evangelism 22: 2 more essays by Walter: Chewing the cud, Wilfullness.
Evangelism 22
Pauline reads Walter's
evangelical essay “A Simple Explanation" in entirety:
A Simple Expanation 1: Why is the wall out there, why is there
resistance to the gospel?
A Simple...1
A Simple Explanation 2: Begins talking about election vs free will
A Simple 2...
A Simple Explanation 3: Evidence for both election and free will
A Simple 3...
A Simple Explanation 4: Concludes that the issue of election/free
will is unfathomable
A Simple 4...
A Simple Explanation 5: Does God decide on the final harvest before
humans are born?
A Simple 5...
A Simple Explanation 6: The Book of Life is written in stone?
A Simple 6...
A Simple Explanation 7: Can a chosen one get unchosen?
A Simple 7...
A Simple Explanation 8: Lots of pride but no humility in today's
church
A Simple 8...
A Simple Expanation 9: Does God add to the Book of Life?
A SImple 9...
A Simple Explanation 10: Salvation was never only for the Israelites.
"Strangers"¯ coming to Israel could be added to the Book
A Simple 10...
A Simple Explanation 11: The resurrection. Why did the Romans not
produce a body?
A Simple 11...
A Simple Explanation 12: The resurrection, ctd
A Simple 12...
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