WHAT’S IN YOUR HEART?
by Bob Wickizer
Scripture: Exodus 20:1-17, Psalms 19:1-14, 1 Corinthians 1:18-25, John 2:13-22
Title: What's in Your Heart
Author: Bob Wickizer
Text: Exodus 20:1-17; Psalm 19; 1 Corinthians 1:18-25; John 2:13-22
A popular television commercial for a bank ends with the tag line, "What's in your wallet?" I don't know about you, but even though I have nothing to hide in or about my life, I want to shake my fist at the TV and say, "It's none of your business."
But today, we are going to talk about a business more important than money. It is the business of your heart.
The search committee for Grace Church ended their series of interviews with me when I flew out to a church in Missouri to preach and preside at the Eucharist. We went out to lunch, and the last question they asked me was, "Do you have any questions for us?" I had plenty of questions. We could have spent the rest of the day, but central to my understanding of these leaders of the local parish was how well the messages and stories of the bible had passed from their conscious thinking to the seat of righteousness, and the place that motivates our actions - the heart. I looked back across the lunch table at the search committee chair and asked, "What stories in the bible make you angry?"
Ancient Greeks believed the heart was the source of emotions. They divided the soul into two parts, ???? (psyche) located in the brain, was eternal life soul, and ??µ?? (thymos) located in the heart, controlled emotions and desires. Homer wrote in the Illiad, "Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another" Today we will follow the Greek idea that the figurative "heart" is the seat of our emotions, our anger, our desires, our happiness, and our boredom.
But we cannot ignore the understanding of the Jews. Both Jewish and Greek concepts of the heart, mind, body, and soul informed Jesus and the writers of the bible. The Israelites thought about the "heart" they way we think about the human mind. For them, the heart was the seat of wisdom. Psalm 90 ...
Author: Bob Wickizer
Text: Exodus 20:1-17; Psalm 19; 1 Corinthians 1:18-25; John 2:13-22
A popular television commercial for a bank ends with the tag line, "What's in your wallet?" I don't know about you, but even though I have nothing to hide in or about my life, I want to shake my fist at the TV and say, "It's none of your business."
But today, we are going to talk about a business more important than money. It is the business of your heart.
The search committee for Grace Church ended their series of interviews with me when I flew out to a church in Missouri to preach and preside at the Eucharist. We went out to lunch, and the last question they asked me was, "Do you have any questions for us?" I had plenty of questions. We could have spent the rest of the day, but central to my understanding of these leaders of the local parish was how well the messages and stories of the bible had passed from their conscious thinking to the seat of righteousness, and the place that motivates our actions - the heart. I looked back across the lunch table at the search committee chair and asked, "What stories in the bible make you angry?"
Ancient Greeks believed the heart was the source of emotions. They divided the soul into two parts, ???? (psyche) located in the brain, was eternal life soul, and ??µ?? (thymos) located in the heart, controlled emotions and desires. Homer wrote in the Illiad, "Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another" Today we will follow the Greek idea that the figurative "heart" is the seat of our emotions, our anger, our desires, our happiness, and our boredom.
But we cannot ignore the understanding of the Jews. Both Jewish and Greek concepts of the heart, mind, body, and soul informed Jesus and the writers of the bible. The Israelites thought about the "heart" they way we think about the human mind. For them, the heart was the seat of wisdom. Psalm 90 ...
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