On the heart

The Bible has hundreds of verses on the nature of the heart. And when one includes other “inner man” topics like conscience, will, desires, motives, mind, and thoughts, there are hundreds more. Consider this very small sampling of Scripture’s instruction on our hearts: The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God,” They […]

Questions for the Heart

The heart is one of the great themes of the Bible. It first shows up near the first page of the Bible in the story of the flood — “Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only […]

Jesus Teaches: On the Heart

Jesus Teaches: On the HeartLuke 6:43-45July 13, 2025 Theodore Dalrymple is a British medical doctor and psychiatrist who has spent his life with the worst of the worst people; he has spent the last 15 years of his life working in British prisons treating “serial killers, petty thieves and everything in between.” Much of his […]

Identifying and resisting idols

When traveling overseas, you may have seen a variety of pagan gods and deities represented by various kinds of idols. You may have even visited a pagan temple and seen large, ornate, and impressive looking idols. I suspect that no matter how impressive, you weren’t tempted to bow in worship to those man made structures. […]

Watch your heart

[Keeping the heart] is the hardest work; heart-work is hard work indeed: to shuffle over religious duties with a loose and heedless spirit, will cost no great pains; but to set thyself before the Lord, and tie up thy loose and vain thoughts to a constant and serious attendance upon him; this will cost thee […]

Gluttony – it’s not just overeating

As someone who has battled with controlling his weight for most of his life, I appreciated this from The Christian Pundit: Thing is, almost nobody is seeing the fat issue as an expression of a heart issue: an idolatry of food. That’s what gluttony is, whether or not our BMI is over 30. Because gluttony […]

Is Your Heart An Idol Factory?

From Mike Leake’s blog this morning: “From this we may gather that man’s nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols…Man’s mind, full as it is of pride and boldness, dares to imagine a god according to its own capacity; as it sluggishly plods, indeed is overwhelmed with the crassest ignorance, it conceives […]

Expunging the world from your heart

Thomas Chalmers, “The Explusive Power of a New Affection:” The love of the world cannot be expunged by a mere demonstration of the world’s worthlessness. But may it not be supplanted by the love of that which is more worthy than itself? The heart cannot be prevailed upon to part with the world, by a […]