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A Self-Examination of your Spiritual Heart The symptoms of spiritual heart disease are countless, and the results are clearly evident in our American culture. Destructive behavior is rampant. Christian values and lifestyles are mocked, vilified, and even suppressed by anti-christian laws and regulations, while immorality and vice are encouraged, propagandized through mass communications media, taught in government schools, and protected, encouraged and advanced by perverted officials in government as fundamental “rights.” What is the answer? More laws? More costly government entitlement programs? Such “solutions” only exacerbate the symptoms and ignore the root cause: spiritual heart disease. Gov. Tim Pawlenty has observed this simple reality: “If you’re going to change destructive behavior, you’ve got to change hearts.” While the spiritual heart is the subject of a major biblical doctrine, it is seldom preached from our pulpits, discussed in books, or taught in Christian schools or applied in Christian counseling. And most often, when the spiritual heart is mentioned, it’s meaning is only partially presented and therefore wrongly presented—limited to the emotions. This perception has given rise to theologically fuzzy expressions such as "heart and mind," and "heart and soul." And the phrase "change of heart" can mean a "change of mind" or a "change of feelings." But the Bible sees the spiritual heart as much more than the faculties of the mind and emotion. And that is the primary reason for this web site. Here, you’ll find online and in our bookstore the most comprehensive presentation of the biblical doctrine of the heart any where on the world wide web, including illustrated representations of God’s models of the heart. A growing number of pastors, counselors and Bible teachers around the world are utilizing our materials in their ministries. And now, we are pleased to present a “Self-Examination of Your Spiritual Heart” on our web site. It’s free—and you don’t even have to register. Just click below and read. This self-examination of the spiritual heart addresses spiritual matters that can lead to a change of heart, in the biblical sense, in those whose ability to undergo such change is not compromised by medical, biological, or psychological issues, which incidently, by law, require treatment or care only by qualified and licensed physicians or psychologists. Scripture tells us that “God examines the heart.” What does He find when He examines your heart? And Paul instructs us to "examine yourselves!" (2 Corinthians 13:5). If you do, what will you discover about yourself? And about others? Take The Personal Spiritual Heart Examination! There are two paths to choose from:
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