Contributed by Anne Benefield on Jul 14, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    The hard-hearted listener is cynical.  Often they have done a fair amount of research to support their unwillingness to hear the word.  Or they may have had a personal trauma that left them without faith.
There is a woman in New York City that I counseled during a particularly difficult time in
                    
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                    Contributed by Colin Bain on Nov 18, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    How is a hard heart turned soft? Only by God performing cardiac surgery. A heart transplant. Most hearts that are medically transplanted in our hospitals today, are because the owners forgot that they were to keep healthy. They took their eyes off the good food and were distracted by the fatty and
                    
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                    Contributed by Angel Caballero on Jun 17, 2009
                
                
                
                    The phrase "hardness of heart" is used not only for God’s people’s enemies, like Pharaoh in Egypt, but also for God’s people, Israel. 
In the New Testament it describes
                    
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                    Contributed by Gene Gregory on Jul 23, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    It was a cold, winter day. A carcass, on an ice floe, floated slowly down the Niagra River. An Eagle, flying overhead, spied the easy prey below, and descended upon it. He began to eat. As he did, the water of the river began slowly pushing the flow toward the falls. But could not the eagle,
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    There is only one quality worse than hardness of the heart and that
                    
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                    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 22, 2025
                
                
                
                    Aero Condor was experiencing money problems in Peru and needed to cut back expenses. So, rumor had it they hired two blind pilots. 
Story soon spread about these pilots, but no one believed it. So one day the plane was loaded and up came the two pilots, with dark glasses and walking sticks. The
                    
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                    Contributed by Chad Wright on May 11, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    The human heart is a hard-working marvel. It can keep on beating automatically even if all other nerves were severed. In a 70 year lifetime, it will beat an average of 75 times a minute, forty million times a year - or two-and-a-half billion times. At each beat, the average adult heart discharges
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 30, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    WORKING HARD? 
Workers around America frankly admit that they spend more than 20 percent of their time (seven hours a week) at work goofing off.  That amounts to a four-day work week across the nation.  Almost half of Americans admit to chronic malingering, calling in sick when not sick, and doing
                    
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                    Contributed by Charles Wallis on Jun 24, 2009
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    THE HEART
We say "I give you my heart..." Maybe we should say, "God, give me Your heart." Let my heart beat with the heartbeat of God...Let my heart be broken by what breaks his heart..." God is chasing you...will you come to Him?  
You need a heart transplant - He
                    
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                    Contributed by Donnie  Martin on Jun 1, 2010
                
                
                
                    A Heart for Praise
Louis Albert Banks tells of an elderly Christian man, a fine singer, who learned that he had cancer of the tongue and that surgery was required. In the hospital after everything was ready for the operation, the man said to the doctor, “Are you sure I will never sing again?” The
                    
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                    Contributed by Ross Cochrane on Jan 13, 2011
                
                
                
                    MARGARET: THE HARD SOIL
Each week I give a devotion in each of the 8 dining areas of the Shalom Centre and Margaret (not her real name) is there, with ears which will not hear. Her heart is a fortress, cold, hard, defensive. The gates are huge, old and impenetrable, bolted with fear and pride that
                    
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