Tag: Heart
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1/17/25 Bible Thought: A Heart Check-Up (Matt. 15)
Reading Time: 3 minutes Instead, anything we do on the outside should spring from a redeemed and new heart that delights to do God’s will on the inside. It should spring from a desire to glorify God in all we do and to walk in a manner that is pleasing to Him. Truly, a heart…
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1/3/25 Bible Thought: The Life of Discipleship
Reading Time: 3 minutesMatthew 5 begins Jesus’ famous sermon on the mount that consists of chapters 5-7 in Matthew’s Gospel. After many crowds followed Jesus, He took His disciples up onto the mountain to teach them (5:1). The Greek word mathetes, which underlies our English, “disciple” means, “one who engages in learning through instruction from…
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11/19/24 “Rejected Prayer” (Ez. 20-21)
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn Ezekiel 20 a group of the elders of Israel went to Ezekiel the prophet to inquire of the Lord only to find out quickly that this was a mistake! The Lord says in simple terms, “As I live, declares the Lord GOD, I will not be inquired of by you” (20:3).…
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10/30/24 “Responding to God’s Word” (Jer. 35-36)
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn Jeremiah 36, we’re introduced again to a guy by the name of Jehoiakim. He was one of the last kings (third from last) of Judah leading up to the destruction by Nebuchadnezzar. In this chapter, we see Jeremiah the prophet commanded to write a letter summing up his entire message to…