Today, we are concluding our devotional series through Puritan John Flavel’s Keeping the Heart. It has been an enlightening walkthrough of how to keep the heart even in life’s hardest seasons.

We will be looking at three more helps for applying the keeping of the heart from Flavel. This is a part of the conclusion of his book, and is thus part of a final exhortation.

We are continuing Flavel’s conclusion of Keeping the Heart. He gives us four more benefits to this greatest of Christian duties. Last time we looked at (1) how keeping the heart helps us to understand the deepness of the Christian Faith, (2) how it helps inoculate us against error, and (3) how it is among the best evidences of our salvation in the Faith. Here is Flavel on help number 4…

Having seen that hypocrites, heart-neglect, and false professors of the Faith fill the professing church, and having seen that keeping the heart is the difference from them, Flavel now comes to stating some great benefits of this work: the chief duty of the Christian…

We are in the application section of Flavel’s book, Keeping the Heart. We will be looking at two more points on the importance of keeping the heart…

With the last of the seasons for keeping the heart completed, we can now look further at certain application for keeping the heart…

Season 11 is called, when sufferings for religion are laid upon us. This season focuses specifically on suffering for Christ rather than giving into the flesh. We will look at six helps for keeping our hearts to suffer for Christ, which is the distinct focus of this season…

Today we will be looking at three more reasons often used for justifying doubt, and show how they are not really reasons at all. In this, the battle is for the mind, and knowing how to address the lies in our heads with biblical wisdom is a crucial practice…

Today we are looking at the first three reasons why we may feel doubt in the season of doubting and of spiritual darkness, and will see how these are not reasons at all…

We are continuing season 10: the season of doubting and of spiritual darkness…