Monthly Archives: April 2015

Heart of Faith: Epilogue

Posted on April 17, 2015 by ehurst

Epilogue Nothing precludes bringing your heart of faith into your church. You are the one to decide if God calls you out of, or into, or alongside, any existing institution. We should hope this teaching is not divisive in the … Continue reading →

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Leaking from the Heart

Posted on April 16, 2015 by ehurst

While whistleblowing is almost pure politics, leaking is a divine art. The Internet itself is pretty deceptive. That is, the same systemic deception you see everywhere else has invaded the Net, in that the coolest and most attractive sites are … Continue reading →

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Heart of Faith: Conclusion

Posted on April 16, 2015 by ehurst

Don’t live in your head. Be on guard against simplistic reading of the Hebrew Scriptures. Yes, Jeremiah 17:9 says that “the heart is desperately wicked” in most English translations. Hebrew thinking is the antithesis of legalistic semantic wrangling. A fair … Continue reading →

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Heart of Faith: Chapter 11

Posted on April 15, 2015 by ehurst

Chapter 11 — Testing, Testing I propose a test. Teaching the mind to follow the leadership of the heart takes time, for those who have never tried it. The full flower is when a firmly held intellectual belief is trumped … Continue reading →

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Church of the Heart

Posted on April 14, 2015 by ehurst

We struggle to get Westerners to see beyond a single unitary universe. We further struggle to get them to see various levels within that one universe. The native conceptual instinct of Westerners is to see everything on the same concrete, … Continue reading →

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Heart of Faith: Insertion

Posted on April 14, 2015 by ehurst

(This was a delayed submission that will be in the book, inserted before my story.) Jeanette’s Story My parents were cold and unloving and had no idea how to prepare their daughters for living in this world. After I gave … Continue reading →

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A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Posted on April 13, 2015 by ehurst

The text of my book Heart of Faith is essentially complete, but I’m not going to finalize it for publication until I’ve serialized the entire draft here. Meanwhile, I have time on my hands to pray and contemplate other things. … Continue reading →

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Heart of Faith: Chapter 9

Posted on April 13, 2015 by ehurst

Chapter 9 — My Story God laid upon the family household the duty to provide children with a frame of reference, a structure that would include and enable a grasp of God’s moral Law. It’s a bias. To be human … Continue reading →

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Working Heart

Posted on April 12, 2015 by ehurst

This business of heart-led living is hard work. We aren’t designed for isolation; it’s not what God intended for us. We are hard-wired to live in extended family households. Anything else is hardly living. However, revelation says a covenant family … Continue reading →

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Heart of Faith: Chapter 8

Posted on April 12, 2015 by ehurst

Chapter 8 — More on Legalism It seems odd that mainstream Christianity is so quick to nitpick over some passages of Scripture — what Christ called “sifting out gnats” from flour — and swallowing the camel on other passages (Matthew … Continue reading →

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