Episode Details

We look at Saint Bernard of Clairvaux and his insistence that Christianity cannot stay in the head because God wants the heart to truly love him. We connect Ezekiel’s promise of a new heart with Jesus’ wedding feast parable and ask what it means to stop saying “not now” to God. 
• Saint Bernard’s life and influence as a teacher of love 
• The difference between knowing about God and surrendering to God 
• Ezekiel’s promise of a new heart and a new spirit 
• The wedding feast as a warning about distraction and delay 
• The wedding garment as the sign of a transformed life 
• Bernard’s test of spiritual maturity: loving God for God’s sake 
• A closing prayer for a heart of flesh instead of stone 

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