Posts Tagged ‘heart’
Their Face, Our Heart, Your Body
by Oliver Watts via Sentry Magazine, Vol. 16 No. 1, March 31, 1990 In the King James and American Standard Versions, “your” is always plural. It means belonging to more than one person spoken to. Unlike how we talk now, when “belonging to one person spoken to” was meant, the word “thy” was used. This fact…
Read MoreBalaam’s Talking Donkey
by Michael Ray Baggett Have you ever watched the movie Francis the Talking Mule? Have you ever watched the old TV classic Mr. Ed about a talking horse? These were entertaining shows, even though they were unrealistic. But hold on! The Bible tells us about a prophet whose donkey really did talk to him. Do…
Read MoreRepentance: The Power of a Contrite Heart
by Terry Wane Benton Few churches today preach repentance, and fewer people who attend churches are actually repenting. It is more like people are joining clubs (called “churches”) but not actually repenting toward God and repenting of sins. The Lord preached repentance and expects His church to preach repentance and actually repent in their heart…
Read MoreWhere Is Your Heart Set?
by David Gibson In the Bible, “heart” almost always refers to the inner person where we make choices, good or bad (Matthew 15:15:19; I Peter 3:4). D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones defines the heart as “the centre of man’s being and personality; it is the fount out of what everything else comes” [Studies in the Sermon on…
Read MoreWith All Your Heart
https://www.lavistachurchofchrist.org/cms/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/With-All-Your-Heart.mp3 by Jeffrey W. Hamilton Text: Psalms 119:9-16 I. It is frequently stated that the difference between the Old and New Testaments is that the Old emphasizes the physical and the New the spiritual A. In part, it comes from passages like 1. Romans 2:28-29 – The true Jew is inward, not outward 2. Romans 7:6 – newness…
Read MoreCalling Attention to the Heart
by Doy Moyer One can work and not have faith, but one cannot have a living faith and not work. One can do for others and not have love, but one cannot love and not do for others. We may be prone to evaluating the outward works, the visible doing, “but the LORD looks on…
Read MoreWho Deserves Your Heart?
by Terry Wane Benton “Then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders; and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands, saying with a loud voice: ‘Worthy is the Lamb who was slain to receive power and…
Read MoreA Heart of Stone or a Heart of Flesh?
by Jarrod M. Jacobs Twice in the book of Ezekiel, God spoke about the fact that He would take the people and remove their “stony heart” so they might have a heart of “flesh” (Ezekiel 11:19; 36:26). In context, the “stony” heart describes the person who has been disobedient and obstinate against God. The heart…
Read MoreClean Hands and a Pure Heart
https://www.lavistachurchofchrist.org/cms/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Clean-Hands-and-a-Pure-Heart.mp3 by Jeffrey W. Hamilton Text: Psalms 24 I. People want to get to heaven, but it seems many don’t want to put much effort into getting there. A. Jesus warned – Luke 13:3 B. The example of the Jews should be enough – I Corinthians 10:1-12 1. They were God’s chosen people, but they didn’t make it.…
Read MoreA Heartfelt Religion
https://www.lavistachurchofchrist.org/cms/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/A-Heartfelt-Religion.mp3 by Raymond Warfel
Read MoreDevelop Your Mind for God
https://www.lavistachurchofchrist.org/cms/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Develop-Your-Mind-for-God.mp3 by Doy Moyer Seeking God
Read MoreFinding God
by Don Bunting “If you want to find God … look inside your own heart.” Really? It is often suggested that the path to truth and knowing God is to look deep within yourself, to search your own mind and feelings. I believe it is important for us to know ourselves and be honest about…
Read MoreThe Atheist’s Motives
https://www.lavistachurchofchrist.org/cms/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/The-Atheists-Motives.mp3 Text: Proverbs 4:20-27 I. Consider the offer A. Atheism offers 1. No absolute morality. Everything is subjective. 2. No meaning to your life. Life is just a span of time, where you suffer for a while before you are squished into oblivion. 3. No hope about your future. B. Christianity offers 1. A clear, absolute morality with guidelines 2. There is…
Read MoreIs the heart the same thing as the mind?
Question: The brethren here have been asking about the mind and heart in reference to salvation. When one believes from the heart, is it the same thing as the mind doing it? Some passages say the heart does something and other passages say the mind does them. Answer: “Jesus said to him,” ‘You shall love…
Read MoreDoes sin start in the heart or can we blame the influence of others?
Question: Based on Matthew 15:19 and James 1:13-15, does all sin begin in the hearts and minds of people? When thinking about a possible transgression, should we put our desires and motives under consideration? Should we blame any outside influence or are our sinful hearts the greater concern when it comes to sin? Answer: “For…
Read MoreKeeping Your Heart
https://www.lavistachurchofchrist.org/cms/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/KeepingYourHeart.mp3 by Raymond Warfel
Read MoreThe Deceitful Heart
by Daniel H. King Sr. via Guardian of Truth XXXIX: 2 p. 22-23, January 19, 1995 The prophet Jeremiah’s life and the unique experiences which he had with Israel, offered him a “laboratory” to study the workings of the human heart. God had entrusted him with a message of dismay, desolation, and destruction for the land of…
Read MoreA Heart that Devises Wicked Plans
by Jeffrey W. Hamilton A. Eph. 4:17 – Don’t walk like the Gentiles do, in the vainity of their minds. B. They have their own teachers telling them that everything is fine – Jer. 23:7 C. A carnal, or wordly, mind is at odds with God’s purpose – Rom. 8:7
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