NEW HEART
EZEKIEL 11:19 (MSG)
I’ll give you a new heart. I’ll put a new spirit in you.
ACTS 2:39 (MSG)
The promise is targeted to you and your children, but also to all who are far away—whomever, in fact, our Master God invites.
SUMMARY SENTENCE
God is inviting you to receive a change of heart -- a new way of living.
PRAYER
Generous God, you're full of gifts -- including the gift of transformation. Thank you. Forgive us for allowing our new hearts to become hard and cold to the needs of our neighbors. Flood our lives anew with your love so that the world may come to accept the invitation you're extending. Might Christ Jesus be honored through us. Amen.
TRANSLATIONS
ABP = Authorized Boydston Paraphrase — my own freestyle biblical adaptation — somewhere between paraphrase, commentary, and sermon
CEB = Common English Bible (©2011, the Common English Bible)
CEV = Contemporary English Version (©1995, American Bible Society)
MSG = The Message (©1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson)
NIRV = New International Reader's Version (©1996, 1998, Biblica)
NIV = New International Version (©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011, Biblica)
NLT = New Living Translation (©1996, 2004, 2007, 2013, Tyndale House Foundation)
