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Tag Archives: heart
Keep your heart “Open For (Spiritual) Business”
When you open up your heart, love rushes in open flushes out anger, bitterness, guilt and the hurtful things that enslave you. Open-hearted love doesn’t mean unconditional approval. An open heart can deeply care about people while strongly disagreeing with … Continue reading
Where to find heart connections
Heart connections change lives. Are they encouraged anywhere besides funeral homes & support groups? Yes, in ekklesia! Ekklesia isn’t another word for church. It’s a very different way for Christians to meet together. Some people want to argue about the … Continue reading
What’s streaming in your heart? Raw desire? Or Spiritual Fire?
What’s streaming in your heart? Raw desire? Or Spiritual Fire? Lust and disgust? Or love from above? Thoughts that annoy? Or real time joy? Spiritual blindness? Or lovingkindness? What do you find flowing through your mind? So, what’s innernet streaming … Continue reading
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Aiming For Your Heart
Television and movies aim to reach your desire to be entertained. Advertising aims to for your emotions. Negative political advertisements aim to reach your fears. Classes, seminars, and even sermons aim for your mind. Love, however, aims to reach your … Continue reading
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Spiritual Gusher Or Spiritual Stopper
Are you a spiritual gusher or a Spirit stopper? Perhaps these thoughts, based on the words of an ancient prophet, can help you answer that question. (See Isaiah, chapter 35.) When God gushes forth from the depths of the human … Continue reading
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My Day In Bethlehem (Not Pennsylvania)
I could see the ancient, small town of Bethlehem in the distance as I approached the Shepherds Grotto, a small cave where shepherds have sheltered themselves for too many centuries to count. It was in these fields that something happened … Continue reading
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