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Here 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 eternally damned: Fear 1, The innate fear of hell and how it affects your mental health Fear 2, Afraid to fear? The mistake made by today's church in teaching people that if they have fear it means they are not saved 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 4, Panic attacks and their basis: unconscious fear of hell Fear 5, Panic attacks, ctd Fear 7, Simple phobias; how the most common phobias are images of eternal damnation Fear 8, Agoraphobia (fear of being out in the open) and social phobia (fear of being exposed in front of people) Fear 9, More on social phobia; also commitment phobia, a characteristic of adult children of divorce Fear 10, Generalized anxiety disorder or “all of the above” Fear 11, Post-traumatic stress disorder and the deeper fear that fuels its persistent symptoms 13 part “Forgiveness” 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 2, More on the Bible foundation of human forgiveness; the story of Joseph as a picture of the forgiveness of God Forgiveness 3, The story of Joseph, ctd Forgiveness 4, Do you have to forgive others before God will save you? Forgiveness 5, Forgive to be saved?, ctd Forgiveness 6, Forgiveness versus a punishment orientation Forgiveness 7, Forgiveness, defensiveness, and the Lord's prayer Forgiveness 8, Why human defensiveness stops them being able to forgive Forgiveness 9, How defensiveness leads to unconscious revenge, with real-life examples Forgiveness 10, How defensiveness, ctd Forgiveness 11, What the defenses are there for Forgiveness 12, What to do about that desire for revenge Forgiveness 13, The flood account as a picture of the forgiveness of God in the OT 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 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 3, How come so much obesity in the Christian church? Overeating 4, Mood elevation: food versus the truth 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 Two episodes from our “Giants” series on obstacles to faith and how to overcome them: Giants 1, how Christ vanquished the giants for all time Giants 2, human defense mechanisms versus leaning on God All 19 episodes from 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 you 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 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, Paranoid projection of the existential conflict; the fascinating defenses we call “pseudo-atonement” that strive to pay the penalty for sin Grace and Sanity 16, More on pseudo-atonement, Walter's monthly broadcast Grace and Sanity 17, More on pseudo-atonement, focusing on “undoing” in bulemia, and anorexia Grace and Sanity 18, Sublimation, or doing good deeds to try to pay for your sin and escape eternal damnation Grace and Sanity 19, Denial of the law (antinomianism) as a 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 and connect with Him. 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, or “What's wrong with preaching against sin?” Points out the almost exclusive focus on sanctification (becoming Christlike) in the church, rather than opening the door to grace. Before we feel safe enough to see our own corruption, we humans have to know God loves us as the flawed people we will always be...that He will never throw us off the ark. 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 our (intially absent) desire to be like 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 Series called “Relationships.” When our relationship with God comes first, all other relationships fall into line behind it. This series is illustrated with many common problems in parent/child and male/female relations and how they transform. 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 Margarent 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 "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 “feed my sheep” and “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, 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 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 the 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, c 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 bring it about. No, it requires a different type of repentance: turning towards God. Salvation is about turning towards God and His gift of salvation in the freely available payment for sin. That payment is the death of Christ: Repentance 1, Looking at the meaning of “repent” as simply “turning.” 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 Walter Arcel presenting his evangelical essay “A Simple Explanation” in entirety: A Simple Explanation 1, Why is the wall out there, why is there resistance to the gospel? A Simple Explanation 2, Begins talking about election vs free will A Simple Explanation 3, Evidence for both election and free will A Simple Explanation 4, Concludes the issue is unfathomable A Simple Explanation 5, Does God decide on the final harvest before humans are born? A Simple Explanation 6, The Book of Life is written in stone? A Simple Explanation 7, Can a chosen one get unchosen? A Simple Explanation 8, Lots of pride but no humility in today's church A Simple Explanation 9, Does God add to the Book of Life? A Simple Explanation 10, “Strangers” coming to Israel could be added to the Book A Simple Explanation 11, The resurrection. Why did the Romans not produce a body? A Simple Explanation 12, The resurrection, ctd |