Category: A Heart Curved Inward
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A Heart Curved Inward: Epilogue
When I first sat down to write these pages, I did not know how difficult it would be to revisit so much of my past. There were memories I would have preferred to leave buried. There were sins that still grieve me. There were moments that reminded me how patient the Lord has been toward…
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A Heart Curved Inward: To The One Still Wandering
If you have read these pages and find yourself seeing your own life reflected in mine, then I want to speak to you plainly. My greatest need was never to overcome addiction, repair my marriage, become a better father, or turn my life around. Those things mattered, but they were not my deepest problem. My…
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A Heart Curved Inward: Chapter 17 “A Heart Curved Outward”
There are times when I look back over my life and struggle to recognize the man I once was. Not because I have become the man I ought to be. I have not. The longer I walk with Christ, the more aware I become of how much remains to be changed within me. The sins…
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A Heart Curved Inward: Chapter 16 “When Providence Brings You Back”
There is a temptation, after seasons of failure, to believe that life will never again resemble what it once was. Sin has a way of convincing us that every foolish decision permanently ruins the future. While consequences often remain, the Lord delights in demonstrating that His mercies are new every morning. He is able to…
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A Heart Curved Inward: Chapter 15: “The Stewardship of What Is His”
One of the lessons the Lord has continued teaching me since my conversion is that growth in one area of the Christian life does not mean maturity in every area. By His grace, He had brought me into a faithful local church, surrounded me with godly shepherds, given me a growing love for His Word,…
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A Heart Curved Inward: Chapter 14 “The Wounds of a Faithful Shepherd”
For a season, I had stepped away from writing altogether. What had once been something I enjoyed had become something I questioned. I wondered whether I had been too quick to speak, whether I had mistaken an interest for a calling, or whether the Lord simply had not given me the gift I had assumed…
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A Heart Curved Inward: Chapter 13 “Zeal Without Wisdom”
The Lord has often been pleased to use ordinary means to accomplish extraordinary purposes. He uses weak men to preach His Word, and quiet acts of faithfulness to strengthen His church. Looking back now, I can see that one of the ordinary means He chose to use in my own life was something I had…
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A Heart Curved Inward: Chapter 12 “The Family Altar”
Among the many ways the Lord began reshaping my life, one of the most humbling was His calling me to lead my own household. The conviction did not arrive all at once, nor do I remember the exact day it settled upon me. It grew gradually as I continued sitting beneath the faithful preaching of…
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A Heart Curved Inward: Chapter 11 ”Ordinary Faithfulness”
The Lord never intended for what I learned on Sundays to remain inside the walls of the church building. Almost immediately after the Lord brought us to Cornerstone, I began noticing how often the responsibilities of husbands and fathers appeared throughout the Scriptures. Those passages had always existed, but I had either overlooked them or…
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A Heart Curved Inward: Chapter 10 “Finding Christ’s Church”
One of the first convictions that settled upon me during those early months was that the Christian life was never intended to be lived in isolation. For a time I had been content to consume whatever teaching I happened to find online. Even before my conversion I had watched countless sermons and religious videos without…
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