This study is being held Thursdays 7 - 8pm June 17 - July 22 in the Gathering Room at First Evangelical - 735 Ridge Lake Blvd Memphis, TN 38120. If you would like more information, give us a call (901) 685-3385 or send us an email (connect@tsfmemphis.org).

In our final session we look at renewing our desires. Our will, our movement through life is driven by our desires. We are guided by our thoughts, moved by our emotions, driven by our desires. Father God wants our desires to be shaped by our primary concern for His glory which in turn cultivates our love.

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We are moved by our emotions. Father God desires that our emotions be shaped by us tasting, experiencing His Goodness which in turn leads us to trust Him. The renewal of our emotions - our negative, destructive emotions and feelings - begins with us finding our ultimate source of security in being the Beloved Children of God now. Once we are secure in Father God’s love for us, we are free to follow the Spirit wherever He may lead us, even into suffering and distress.

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Our thoughts are the ideas, images and information that we process through our intellectual capacities. Father God desires that our thoughts be shaped by His Truth which in turn cultivates our Hope. The “eyes of our hearts” are enlightened by the Gospel and the Spirit of Christ dwelling within us by faith. Now we can focus on Christ, setting minds and our thoughts on Him.

*There is a new set of notes this week in the download link below.

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Our transformation comes to us as a gift of God’s grace that we receive through faith. In this session, we begin to consider how the Father transforms us by the grace of Christ through the Holy Spirit. As we behold the reflection of the glory of God in the face of Christ that we receive in the Gospel, the message of truth, we are transformed degree by degree to be more like Christ.

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In this session, we explore what has gone wrong with the heart. When the truth of the One True God is suppressed, the thinking becomes futile and the heart is darkened. This soon results in corrupt desires and ultimately idolatry: seeking some ultimate source of 1) significance, 2) security or 3) soul satisfaction other than Father God’s love given to us in the grace of Christ through the power and presence of the Holy Spirit. The good news is that our Father illuminates our darkened hearts through the Gospel and fills them with the presence of His Spirit through faith.

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In this first session, we will explore what the Heart is. We have two hearts: 1) the physical organ that pumps blood through our bodies and 2) the spiritual organ from which all our life flows. From our Heart flows our thoughts, desires, emotions. Understanding that the Heart is core, central to who we are is the foundation for understanding what Father God is doing in Christ in us through the presence and power of the Holy Spirit.

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>Download the Presentation here.