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One Simple Improvement You Can Make in Your Life Is to Open Your Heart

Posted on May 13, 2025 by Steve Simms

One simple improvement that you can make in your life is to open wide your heart. The closedness inside your heart is weighing you down with a heavy load to carry. Open your heart to God’s brilliant light so you … Continue reading →

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Advice to Melt the Ice in Your Heart

Posted on September 21, 2024 by Steve Simms

How do you spell “relief”? Too often it is spelled as “h-e-a-r-t–-h-a-r-d-e-n-i-n-g.” When we humans are in the midst of troubles we tend to cry out to God and allow Him to soften our heart. However, when relief comes and … Continue reading →

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A Tender Heart Gives Me Energy

Posted on September 20, 2024 by Steve Simms

Hard-hearted people create hardship for themselves and others. They wind up shipwrecked within and yet they pretend that all is well. However, I have found that a tender heart gives me great energy! The source of a hard heart is … Continue reading →

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Heart connection reveals amazing significance

Posted on July 1, 2023 by Steve Simms

Without a solid sense of significance, meaning, and purpose, it’s easy to slip into sadness, discouragement and despair. Your life has a purpose. Find it. Pursue it. Fulfill it. If life was without meaning the very concept of meaning would … Continue reading →

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Christianity is about individuals, not clones in religious institutions

Posted on October 27, 2022 by Steve Simms

Until we gather with and spiritually connect with Christ-transformed individuals, there will be little unity among Christians. When Christ-transformed individuals recognize each other there’s an instant sense of kinship and community. I sold black history books during college summers and … Continue reading →

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Baiting people with religious candy or net fishing for human hearts?

Posted on July 14, 2022 by Steve Simms

Net fishing for people? New Testament net fishing doesn’t work if you don’t have a network of people connected heat-to-heart with the living Jesus and with one another. As the inner spiritual knots that tied the earliest Christians together loosened … Continue reading →

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Unlock unlimited heart connection!

Posted on June 20, 2022 by Steve Simms

To unblock unlimited heart connection, activate your heart on God’s network! This will help. Unlimited heart connectionOvercomes all rejection.As bearers of God’s image,Any two human heartsCan connect.Let everyone you meetHave the attentionOf your heartAnd be a partOf your inner circleAt … Continue reading →

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Spirit-led, heart-to-heart connection

Posted on May 10, 2022 by Steve Simms

Group prayerIs an opportunity to shareYour heart with GodAnd with those who careTo be in prayerWith you. Jesus wants His followers to gather in Spirit-led, heart-to-heart connection. We can’t be consciously connected heart-to-heart unless we honestly, humbly, and compassionately open … Continue reading →

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Heart-connection makes life better

Posted on November 12, 2020 by Steve Simms

Moments of heart-connection with another person are marvelous. We all need more! If we would touch hearts as often as we touch screens, what joy we’d know! Disconnected hearts can be cold and cruel to each other. Connected hearts heal. … Continue reading →

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Care, connection, & community are better than divisiveness

Posted on July 6, 2020 by Steve Simms

Even when minds disagree, open hearts find much unity and love. Closed hearts, however, succumb to anger and hostility. I’ve conversed with and listened to people of many different ethnicities. When I do, I’m always amazed at how similar we … Continue reading →

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