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<p>This week we finished up our series Aching Hearts.</p><p>“The hand of Yahweh was upon me, and He brought me out by the Spirit of Yahweh and caused me to rest in the middle of the valley; and it was full of bones. He caused me to pass among them all around, and behold, <em>there were</em> very many on the surface of the valley; and behold, <em>they were</em> very dry.<strong> </strong>He said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” And I answered, “O Lord Yahweh, You know.”<strong> </strong>Then He said to me, “Prophesy over these bones and say to them, ‘O dry bones, hear the word of Yahweh.’<strong> </strong>Thus says Lord Yahweh to these bones, ‘Behold, I will cause breath to enter you that you may come to life.<strong> </strong>I will put sinews on you, make flesh come up upon you, cover you with skin, and put breath in you that you may come alive; and you will know that I am Yahweh.’”</p><p>Ezekiel 37: 1-6 (LSB)</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://nowatamethodists.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_1">nowatamethodists.substack.com</a>

<p>“For you were formerly darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as children of light<strong> </strong>(for the fruit of that light <em>consists</em> in all goodness and righteousness and truth), trying to learn what is pleasing to the Lord. And do not participate in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead even expose them. For it is disgraceful even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret.<strong> </strong>But all things become visible when they are exposed by the light, for everything that becomes visible is light. For this reason it says,</p><p>“Awake, sleeper,And arise from the dead,And Christ will shine on you.”</p><p>- Ephesians 5:8-14 (LSB)</p><p>This week we continue our way through our series “Aching Hearts”. This week we take a look at the “Tell-Tale Heart”, starting with an illustration from the author Edgar Allan Poe and his story of the same name.</p><p></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://nowatamethodists.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_1">nowatamethodists.substack.com</a>

<p>This week we continue in our series “Aching Hearts” in which we touch on Exodus 17:1-7 & John 4:5-42.</p><p></p><p>“Then all the congregation of the sons of Israel journeyed by stages from the wilderness of Sin, according to the command of Yahweh, and they camped at Rephidim, and there was no water for the people to drink. Therefore the people contended with Moses and said, “Give us water that we may drink.” And Moses said to them, “Why do you contend with me? Why do you test Yahweh?”<strong> </strong>But the people thirsted there for water; and they grumbled against Moses and said, “Why, now, have you brought us up from Egypt, to put us and our children and our livestock to death with thirst?” So Moses cried out to Yahweh, saying, “What shall I do to this people? A little more and they will stone me.” Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Pass before the people and take with you some of the elders of Israel; and take in your hand your staff with which you struck the Nile, and go. Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb; and you shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink.” And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.<strong> </strong>So he named the place Massah and Meribah because of the contending of the sons of Israel, and because they tested Yahweh, saying, “Is Yahweh among us or not?” - Exodus 17:1-7 (LSB)</p><p></p><p></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://nowatamethodists.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_1">nowatamethodists.substack.com</a>

<p>This week we continue our way through our series Aching Hearts by looking at “A Courageous Heart”.</p><p>“And Yahweh said to Abram,</p><p>“Go forth from your land,And from your kinAnd from your father’s house,To the land which I will show you;And I will make you a great nation,And I will bless you,And make your name great;And so you shall be a blessing;And I will bless those who bless you,And the one who curses you I will curse.And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.”</p><p>So Abram went forth as Yahweh had spoken to him; and Lot went with him. Now Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.” </p><p><strong>- Genesis 12:1-4a (LSB)</strong></p><p>“What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh, has found?<strong> </strong>For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about—but not before God! For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.”<strong> </strong>Now to the one who works, his wage is not counted according to grace, but according to what is due. But to the one who does not work, but believes upon Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness,”</p><p><strong>- Romans 4:1-5 (LSB)</strong></p><p>“For the promise to Abraham or to his seed that he would be heir of the world was not through the Law, but through the righteousness of faith.<strong> </strong>For if those who are of the Law are heirs, faith has been made empty and the promise has been abolished; for the Law brings about wrath, but where there is no law, there also is no trespass.</p><p>For this reason <em>it is</em> by faith, in order that <em>it may be </em>according to grace, so that the promise will be guaranteed to all the seed, not only to those who are of the Law, but also to those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all—<strong> </strong>as it is written, “A father of many nations have I made you”—in the presence of Him whom he believed, <em>even</em> God, who gives life to the dead and calls into being that which does not exist.” </p><p><strong>- Romans 4:13-17</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://nowatamethodists.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_1">nowatamethodists.substack.com</a>

<p>Then Yahweh God took the man and set him in the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it. And Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may surely eat; but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat from it; for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die.” - Genesis 2:15 (LSB)</p><p>This week we started a new series “Aching Hearts”. Lent is a sacred season of reflection—a time to examine our hearts and take an honest look at how we are living our lives before God. </p><p></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://nowatamethodists.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_1">nowatamethodists.substack.com</a>