Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart. That's what Psalm 374

instructs us. What are our real heart desires? To be understood, to be loved, to be pain free, to be in

control. How can we tell if these desires are good or not so good? Today we are discussing how our

desires can get muddled sometimes and turn into idols and how that affects our daily living, including living out the greatest command to love God with all our heart, mind, soul, and strength.

Plus get four tips on cultivating a heart for God's glory.

John Calvin once said, the human mind, so to speak, is a perpetual forge of idols. We'll shoot.

Welcome to the Sheproos' faithful podcast, episode number 37, truth and encouragement to live

gospel-centered lives every day. I'm your host, Lauren Lushach.

Hello, sweet friends, it is Holy Week. We are celebrating Good Friday and Easter coming up this week,

and I just want you to know that if you are in the Denver area, you are invited to come worship

and celebrate with us at New City Church here in Denver.

If you're not in Denver and you don't have a church and you want to visit Denver, please come to New City Church this Friday, 7 p.m. for Good Friday service.

And of course, you are welcome to come on Easter at 9 or 1030. You can check out details at new city, Denver.org.

Plus, you get to meet me and we can be real-life friends. That'd be awesome. And I might even be

leading kids worship upstairs so you can watch me jazzercise and be out of breath when I can't

even really sing. It's pretty funny. It's awesome, which reminds me of this Instagram post I

I saw, and this is totally not related or probably even appropriate, but it said sweat is fat crying.

I just, there's so many times I want to post that, but my fat is definitely crying on Sunday mornings

when I lead kids worship. It's just lots of sweat going on. Okay, on that note,

now you really want to come for Easter, don't you? Okay, if you're not a part of the Sheeprews faithful

and the word reading plan, I really encourage you to sign up at sheepersafel.com slash Bible.

This month's reading plan is so awesome. And I know that I wrote the plan, but it's the

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