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Beliefs of the Heart

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    • Hearing God in Conversation
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Beliefs of the Heart

The Stench of Human Sweat

May 20, 2020 by Sam Williamson

A couple years ago, the subscription sign-up for www.BeliefsoftheHeart.com stopped working. Apparently, it had died without telling me. It accepted …

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My Sister Is a Liar

May 6, 2020 by Sam Williamson

The house I grew up in belonged to a church. My father was a pastor with a relatively small salary, so every home we lived in was provided rent-free …

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Pretty Ugly Moralism

April 22, 2020 by Sam Williamson

I went to school with a young woman who scratched little marks inside her Bible to keep score of how many people she had converted. She showed me her …

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The First Time I Heard God Speak

February 5, 2020 by Sam Williamson

I was ten years old the first time I heard God speak. It was autumn, a new school year had just begun, and a new fad was spreading among my adolescent …

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Information or Intimacy?

December 11, 2019 by Sam Williamson

Over thirty years ago, I stumbled upon a 60 Minutes episode in which Mike Wallace interviewed an MIT computer science nerd.  He had a tiny …

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When Obedience Doesn’t Make Sense

December 4, 2019 by Sam Williamson

My family moved to Detroit the summer between my first and second grade. Tommy was the first friend I met. Like me, his dad was a pastor; but unlike …

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Striving for Spiritual Impact

November 21, 2019 by Sam Williamson

A few months ago, I mentioned that I had been diagnosed with kidney cancer. The treatment involved five uncomfortable procedures, but the recovery was …

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Desires of The Heart

October 3, 2019 by Sam Williamson

I’ve used my Scripture Meditation Plan for decades. It begins with a psalm of the day, and last Thursday’s was Psalm 37. It is best known for this one …

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Don’t Believe Your Own Headlines

July 17, 2019 by Sam Williamson

In ninth grade, my brother Andy’s locker partner (the school drug supplier) had a bad trip on LSD. The bad trip continued in a small series of scary …

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What About That GTO?

June 11, 2019 by Sam Williamson

When I grew up in Detroit, the population was over 1,200,000 people. I spent the next forty years living in Ann Arbor, population of about 120,000. …

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Trusting Doubt

May 21, 2019 by Sam Williamson

My friend was recently fired from a job when his boss blamed him for a mistake the boss had made. He said to me, “All is good.” The next week his wife …

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Is Sunday School Destroying Our Kids?

May 7, 2019 by Sam Williamson

Several years ago I met with a woman distraught over her son’s rejection of Christianity. She said, “I did everything I could to raise him right. I …

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I write Beliefs of the Heart to grow our intimacy with God, to help us all examine our deepest heart-beliefs. I am an orthodox believer, meaning my theology is consistent with Christian beliefs through the centuries. In fact, I believe that our current cultural moment clouds our beliefs, so we must continually examine our current,

 fashionable beliefs–which are often unquestioned–in light of scriptural truth. I live in Brooklyn, MI, USA, with my wife. We have four grown children and an ever increasing number of grandchildren.

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