The Healthy Heart sermon series is an invitation to you: Come enter the world of the heart, look inside yourself, and be transformed to live the life God intended for you.
“From the moment we claim the truth of being the Beloved, we are faced with the call to become who we are… Becoming the Beloved means letting the truth of our belovedness become enfleshed in everything we think, say, or do. It entails a long and painful process of appropriation or, better, incarnation. As long as ‘being the Beloved’ is little more than a beautiful thought or a lofty idea… nothing really changes.” –Henri Nouwen, Life of the Beloved
Nouwen says it so well! We must become who we are in Christ! This “becoming” happens in the core of our being—our heart. Being a Christian means we work to align ourselves with the will, word, and way of Jesus. The Healthy Heart sermon series at New Day is designed to help you do just that. The sermons are focused on ways you can cultivate a healthy heart.
God wants to mature you in the inner world—the world of your heart. He wants to walk you through the process of becoming the Beloved. The Apostle Paul describes this process in Colossians 3:9-15 when he calls us “as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved” to put off the old self and put on the new self. Jesus talks extensively about the world of the heart (Matt 5:8, 12:34, 13:15, 15:19, 18:35, Mark 11:23). Check it out! God is looking for men and women “after his own heart.” People like David (Acts 13:22) who will do his will, and people like the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37) who are full of compassion for those in need.
Adopt for yourself the approach of David and the persistence of Paul. David was open and willing to let God bring heart issues to the surface and lead him to a new life of freedom and wholeness. Paul never counted himself a finished product, but vowed to always “press on” in the “upward call” of God. Let’s be persistent like Paul, taking the same approach as David, who wrote:
Psalm 139:23–24 (ESV): “Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!” (emphasis mine)
The Healthy Heart sermon series is an invitation to you: Come enter the world of the heart, look inside yourself, and be transformed to live the life God intended for you.
Link to the first sermon in the series: https://youtu.be/nMoYk2sCbG0