Welcome to Merry Heart Moments!

Thank you for visiting Merry Heart Moments today! Our site is dedicated to helping believers and educators experience a deeper understanding of the things we have learned and have been charged with teaching others. It is our hope that you will be challenged in your faith and in your practice and that your service to those you teach is more rewarding.

(Merry Heart Moments is a division of Merry Heart Educational Consultants.)

Why a Merry Heart?

It has been said that a merry heart does good like a medicine, but what is a merry heart? The heart that I am referring to is more than the muscle inside your chest that is pumping blood throughout your body even as you are reading this. While that heart is vital to our physical well-being, it is our other “heart” that affects and impacts the lives of those around us. The heart, in this case, is often defined as the place where a person’s will, emotions, and desires reside. Those are pretty significant parts of who we are, and wouldn’t it be great if it were a happy place?

The Work of the Holy Spirit: Part I

This is the beginning of a 5-part series about the work with the Holy Spirit. To say that there has been a lot of confusion and contention regarding the work of the Holy Spirit since the birth of the Church would be an understatement. There are times when just the mention of the person and ministry of the Holy Spirit can create consternation and chaos within a local church body. It is sad that we have allowed what was meant to unify us to instead cause so much division and se