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 abuse and assault. Western church history is filled stories of false shepherds who have not spared the flock of Theos.

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 God had given him eternal life.  Post modern man is in search of a soul and the Iesous has come to save the lost ones.

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 will.  Paul's life-lie vanished in an instant, and he arose from a life of ruin.

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 makes the wrath of man praise his mighty works.

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 unsearchable love of the living Christ.

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" physician heal thyself. Is there no balm in Gilead?  Can this nation be healed of very real spiritual malaise?