Heart Matters

meditations from a grateful heart

Heart Matters grew out of my journey writing the Bible curriculum RockSolidKids: Drawing Kids Close to God’s Unchanging Heart. (Hence the lesson title & number on some meditations below.) With each lesson, there were so many overflow blessings! (Aren’t there always, when we’re in God’s Word?) Good things that didn’t make it into the day’s lesson for kids, but just had to be shared with their teacher. And so the first page of each lesson became a just-between-you-and-me-heart-thoughts, extra-blessings page.
[To reflect the flow of the lessons, new posts show last on the list.  Click here to jump to last. ]

Because . . .

My heart matters. I can’t read the Bible without being blessed. It engages my heart and soul and mind. 

Your heart matters. Are you teaching a lesson? Just sitting down for your daily Bible reading? I hope these ‘overflow blessings’ will bless your heart too. 

God’s Great, Good Unchanging Heart matters most of all. 

We’ll never get tired of noticing every good and perfect gift that comes from that Heart, right? 

My heart has heard you say, ‘Come and talk with me.’ And my heart responds, ‘LORD, I am coming.’
-Psalm 27:8

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That’s Finished!

(Goes with RSK Lesson 11) God is really counting on our being convinced by the evidence of creation.The ‘problem’ God has is …

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Home Sweet Home: Joshua and the Promised Land

[Goes with RSK Lesson 52] Moses my servant is dead. That’s pretty bleak. I had a hard time with that one today. …

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The Most Important Birthday Ever

[Goes with RSK Lesson 70] This is the heart we’ve been following right through the Book. It’s the almighty God of the …

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RSK Prequel: God on a Mission

[From Chapter 2 of the Teacher’s Guide] We do know this: we will be like him, for we shall see him as …

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Drawing Kids Close to God’s Unchanging Heart

[Part of Chapter 3 of the Teacher’s Guide] The LORD is merciful and compassionate, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing …

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The Best & Most Important Book Ever

(Goes With RSK Lesson 1) My morning routine… my favorite part of the day… sitting down with the Best Book in the …

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God’s Word: Simple, Clear, True

(Goes With RSK Lesson 2) I love this Book.It’s so simple. God spoke. And people wrote… what God told them to write. …

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God First!

(Goes With RSK Lesson 3) I noted to RSK teachers early on: You’ll be reading through Genesis 1 several times with your …

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Angels!

(Goes With RSK Lesson 4) When God was creating the world—the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy! …

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About the Author

Jill Goring is a lover of God’s Word with a passion for seeing it communicated clearly. She is a veteran missionary, Bible translator, translation consultant and trainer, and conducts communication and translation workshops around the world.

She is the author of the RockSolidKids Bible curriculum [greatly enhanced by Ruth Brendle’s creative supplements and editing!], grateful wife of Larry, mom of two and proud ‘Gigi’ to five amazing grandchildren, RSK lovers all.

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