With a career background in computer science, I decided to quantify this Biblical centrality of the heart business. By using computer search tools on the entire text of the King James Bible, I found 975 matches to the word heart and to words containing strings like "hearts," "heart's," "brokenhearted," and others. Of course, you don't need a computer to research this, but if you like doing research, just dig out your concordance and read the nearly one thousand verses about the heart. Suffice it to say that God has much to say about the human heart. The heart is the center of our bodies and our spiritual being as children of God, both physic...

Matters of the Heart Heart Attacks: The “heart attacks” I'm talking about are when people attack your healthy heart, your good heart, and your innocence. (Please contact your physician regarding literal cardiac issues.) The worst attacks come from Bible Thumping Preachers bent on performance-based, guilt-driven religion. Their favorite weapon is the Bible and their most used ammunition are scriptures like this: The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? (Jeremiah 17:9) With this, “Thumper” takes aim at twinges of guilt which lurk in the dark corners of the victim’s mind. He agitates ...