A New Heart for Christmas

Mark and his family before his first surgery.

My friend Mark started feeling poorly around July. Things he normally did became exhausting and physically hard to manage.

He was a strong man, a former Army Ranger, and very involved in the lives of his two teenaged boys. 

But a few exploratory tests from various doctors showed Mark and his family that things were not good with his heart.


His heart was not pumping properly, and an alarming test told them that it was functioning at only 8 percent of its capacity.  Doctors called this barely life sustaining...

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 Who is God? God cares about our physical needs, but I think what He's most concerned with is the state of our heart. Is our heart right with Him? Do we love Him and put Him first in all we do? Do we follow Him with all we are? Asking God for a new "heart" for Christmas may be just what we need this season. 

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