The Truth Project

“‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”


Luke 10:27 (NIV)



Next Wednesday night (at 7:30) we will be starting a video series created by Focus on the Family called "The Truth Project."  This series is an attempt to teach in a comprehensive and systematic way what the world looks like from a Christian perspective -- what we call a "Christian World View."  It is a subject that is essential for new believers, and I believe that this teaching will bless our "old-timers" as well.  I believe it will deepen your faith, give you even greater confidence in the truth of the Bible and strengthen your ability to defend the veracity of the Gospel to an increasingly skeptical world.


As the creator of The Truth Project states:  "You and I are engaged in a cosmic battle -- a battle that is raging for the hearts and minds of people the world over, putting the truth claims of God against the lies of the world, the flesh and the devil.  It is a battle over what you truly believe."


I am extremely excited about where HC is as a church.  I am convinced that the Spirit of God is moving in a powerful way.  I am excited to see so many of our partners hungry for the things of God, hungry for the Word, and crying out to get closer to Him.


And, while I am excited about where the "heart" of Heartland Church is for God at this time and in this season, I am also mindful that God is not satisfied even if He gets all of our heart.  No.  God wants us to be "all in" with everything we have.  To be specific, he wants us to love Him with all of our heart, all of our soul, all of our strength, and all of our mind.


There is, indeed, a battle raging.  At stake is eternity for billions of people all over the world.  And, there is nowhere on earth where the battle is being fought harder than right here in the United States.


We live in a land where even many of the poor are rich by the standards of the world -- and with wealth comes deceit.  We can be deceived by what we can buy and what we can accomplish.  We live in a land where science, technology and even the American Dream have overtaken God as the object of our worship.  We live in a land where people have convinced themselves that mankind itself, and not God, has the answers to all of the problems of the world.  Increasingly, the truth of the Bible is dismissed in our schools -- our children inundated with a worldview where God is unknown.


I hope that you will join me for The Truth Project.  It is my prayer that this will be a time when we can come together to renew our minds, to build our faith and to strengthen our testimony.


The Truth is coming!  
Starting at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday February 8, 2012.