Keep the Heart

(Note: This episode originally aired on Valentine's Day 2023, which was an "inappropriate day" to promote this hard topic! We're providing this rebroadcasted episode for those who missed it.) Inappropriate relationships are common, but common does not equal normal. The Bible devotes an entire chapter of Proverbs to paint a picture of what this is and how it happens. At the root of any inappropriat...

Welcome to Teachback Tuesday, where we play the most popular episodes from the previous season. It's conference season, and I’m also wrapping up a first draft of the next 31-day devotional, so we will need to tap into our podcast archives now and then, just to keep up until the end of conferences. New podcast episodes are in production and coming soon.  This week’s Teachback Tuesday episode has tw...

Welcome to the fourth segment of Psalm 119 on Build Your Bible Habit. These verses sound like a prayer-filled and very personal conversation with God. In fact, we could pray these verses for our own lives. Build Your Bible Habit was launched as a special bonus segment Keep the Heart Podcast in 2022 with Proverbs, and now it includes Psalm 119. During these unsettling times, it is so good to know t...

Welcome to Teachback Tuesday, where we play the most popular episodes from the previous season. This week’s episode, “Food Won’t Fix That Problem,” opens with a true story of a time when I was trying to eat my way through a storm of grief. Since the problem wasn’t hunger, food didn’t fix it. Do you find yourself alternating between healthy and unhealthy eating habits? To paraphrase a saying, “It’s...

Welcome to the third segment of Psalm 119 on Build Your Bible Habit. In this passage, we can tell that the Psalmist was going through hard times with various people, especially the proud-hearted. You'll also notice that these problems quickly became prayer requests. We can copy that! Build Your Bible Habit was launched as a special bonus segment Keep the Heart Podcast in 2022 with Proverbs, and no...

Inappropriate relationships are common, but common does not equal normal. The Bible devotes an entire chapter of Proverbs to paint a picture of what this is and how it happens. At the root of any inappropriate relationship is a selfish desire to have our own way. This is so Old Testament: "Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts." (Proverbs 21:2) Proverbs cha...

Welcome to the second segment of Psalm 119 on Build Your Bible Habit. The Psalmist makes statements that could easily come from the heart of anyone who has been going through a lengthy time of trial and adversity, but you'll also hear hope and trust within this passage. Build Your Bible Habit was launched as a special bonus segment Keep the Heart Podcast in 2022 with Proverbs, and now we're expand...

Have you ever told a “little white lie?” This phrase refers to "lies that are told about small or unimportant matters to avoid hurting a person.” "White lies" are a manmade concept, and they sound like these examples: Your friend comes out of the fitting room in an outfit that’s too tight. She asks you, “Does this fit alright?” You say yes, even though your mind is screaming, “That’s waaaaay too s...

Welcome to SayItAgain Saturday, where we replay popular episodes from the previous season! This episode first aired in January 2022, and we can tell by the downloads that it hit a nerve. After all, giving advice can lead to unexpected drama. Are you able to listen to someone sharing a problem without trying to fix it? In other words, can you just listen, or are you formulating a solution as you li...

Build Your Bible Habit with the popular daily Proverb system. Read one Proverb daily, corresponding with the day of the month (chapter 4 on the 4th etc.).  Here's a verse from chapter 4, reminding us that wisdom is the "principle thing," which is another way of saying, "first things first": "Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding." (Proverbs...

Build Your Bible Habit with the popular daily Proverb system. Read one Proverb daily, corresponding with the day of the month (chapter 3 on the 3rd etc.).  Here's a familiar passage from chapter 3, with instructions both to trust the Lord for direction and to avoid running ahead of God with our own agendas: "Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all...

Proverbs Library Build Your Bible Habit with the popular daily Proverb system. Read one Proverb daily, corresponding with the day of the month (chapter 1 on the 1st etc.).  Here's a verse from chapter 1, reminding us that following God's Word brings peace and quiet even in the midst of difficult times: "But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil." (Prover...

Welcome to the first segment of Psalm 119 on Build Your Bible Habit. This is the longest chapter in the Bible, so we’ll divide it into seven episodes. Psalm 119 is loaded with thoughts, instructions, and observations written to turn our hearts to a closeness with God. This chapter is written in twenty-two parts, following the letters of the Hebrew alphabet, and each part consists of eight verses f...

Build Your Bible Habit with the popular daily Proverb system. Read one Proverb daily, corresponding with the day of the month (chapter 30 on the 30th etc.).  Here's a verse from chapter 30, teaching us that God is a protector to those who trust Him. "Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him." (Proverbs 30:5) Proverbs Library

Build Your Bible Habit with the popular daily Proverb system. Read one Proverb daily, corresponding with the day of the month (chapter 28 on the 28th etc.).  Here's a verse from chapter 28, teaching us that "following your heart" is an unwise practice: "He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered." (Proverbs 28:26) Proverbs Library

Build Your Bible Habit with the popular daily Proverb system. Read one Proverb daily, corresponding with the day of the month (chapter 27 on the 27th etc.).  Here's a verse from chapter 27, instructing us that it is better to have someone else sing our praises than for us to boast about ourselves: "Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips." (Proverbs...

Build Your Bible Habit with the popular daily Proverb system. Read one Proverb daily, corresponding with the day of the month (chapter 25 on the 25th etc.).  Here's a verse from chapter 25, teaching us that we need to keep our debates and disagreements between us and the person directly involved: "Debate thy cause with thy neighbour himself; and discover not a secret to another: Lest he that heare...

Have you ever listened to someone who was trying to sound like they knew what they were talking about, but you could tell that they were bluffing? That’s what’s going on today as people have coined the phrase, “I am speaking my truth.” When did it become possible to create new truth, as if we were just changing ingredients in a recipe? Pretending to be an authority is as old as the Old Testament....

Build Your Bible Habit with the popular daily Proverb system. Read one Proverb daily, corresponding with the day of the month (chapter 23 on the 23rd etc.).  Here's a verse from chapter 23, reminding us that wisdom is priceless: "Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding." (Proverbs 23:23) Proverbs Library

Build Your Bible Habit with the popular daily Proverb system. Read one Proverb daily, corresponding with the day of the month (chapter 21 on the 21st etc.).  Here's a verse from chapter 21, instructing us that it's often not a lack of money but a lack of money management that leads people to suffer from "too much month at the end of the money": "There is treasure to be desired and oil in the dwell...

Build Your Bible Habit with the popular daily Proverb system. Read one Proverb daily, corresponding with the day of the month (chapter 20 on the 20th etc.).  Here's a verse from chapter 20, reminding us that we will have things happen in life that were not in our planners: "Man's goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?" (Proverbs 20:24) Proverbs Library The Shop at Keep...

Build Your Bible Habit with the popular daily Proverb system. Read one Proverb daily, corresponding with the day of the month (chapter 18 on the 18th etc.).  Here's a verse from chapter 18, reminding us that it is important to ask questions and become good listeners before we attempt to give advice: "He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him." (Proverbs 18:13)...

Welcome to season 3 of Keep the Heart podcast. I’m your host, Francie Taylor from Keep the Heart, a ministry devoted to making Bible study meaningful through Bible application and personal study. We’ve been told by our listeners that these podcast episodes feel like sitting at the dining room table with our Bibles, having coffee while discussing the issues of life with a sister friend. Each episod...

Build Your Bible Habit with the popular daily Proverb system. Read one Proverb daily, corresponding with the day of the month (chapter 16 on the 16th etc.).  Here's a verse from chapter 16, reminding us that God knows our motives: "All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits." (Proverbs 16:2) Proverbs Library The Shop at Keep the Heart Follow Keep the Heart o...

Build Your Bible Habit with the popular daily Proverb system. Read one Proverb daily, corresponding with the day of the month (chapter 14 on the 14th etc.).  Here's a verse from chapter 14, teaching us that having a short temper makes us repellant to others: "He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly: and a man of wicked devices is hated." (Proverbs 14:17) Proverbs Library The Shop at Keep the Heart...