1/10/2024 0 Comments Without malist in our heart quote![]() ![]() Luke 6:43-45New International Version A Tree and Its FruitĤ3 “No good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit. 44 Each tree is recognized by its own fruit. People do not pick figs from thornbushes, or grapes from briers. Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway.What is to give light must endure the burning.It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was. There is no right way or wrong way to do it. 45 A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. 'It is a dull sensation, your heart breaking, like the sound of a pebble dropping on the sand. What do you find challenging about this passage? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of. Simplicity starts in the HEART and then out into our lifestyle. Faith is the gaze of a soul upon a saving God. Tozer, The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine. ![]() He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts. Is the ‘simplicity of apparel’ just about having fewer things? If we were to do a ‘health check‘ on our heart, and our words were used as a form of measurement, what would they say about the state of our heart? ‘ Christian simplicity is an inward reality that results in an outward lifestyle’ John Mark Comer comments that ‘it’s not enough just to simplify our closet or home or even our schedule we have to simplify around something….what you centre your heart on will define who you will become, for better or worse.’ Proverbs 4:23 (NIV)Ģ3 Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. Simplicity (also called minimalism) is a way of life where we intentionally prioritize the things that really matter, by cutting out all that is ancillary and stripping our life down to make abiding the centre of everything. 0 Comments Let all bitterness, and anger, and indignation, and clamour, and blasphemy, be put away from you, with all malice. It’s a life of focus in a cultural moment of distraction. ![]()
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