Heart Problems is a challenging and timely message about a problem every person shares: the condition of the human heart. During Avenue T Church of Christ’s combined English and Spanish worship service on Sunday, August 30, 2026, Cole Tuck, with Charlie Rodriguez translating into Spanish, examined the difference between what the world teaches about following our hearts and what God’s Word actually says.
Our culture often tells us to trust our feelings, follow our hearts, and determine truth for ourselves. But Scripture presents a sobering picture: the heart can be sick, deceitful, and untrustworthy.
The message explores how following an unchecked heart can lead to temptation, sin, and ultimately death. Yet the sermon doesn’t leave us without hope. Jesus provides the perfect example. In the garden, He submitted His own desires to the Father’s will, choosing God’s way over His own.
The challenge is simple but profound: stop allowing our hearts to determine truth and begin allowing God’s heart to guide our lives.
Talking Points
- The world tells us to follow our hearts.
Popular culture encourages us to trust our feelings and define truth according to what we believe internally. - God gives us a different picture of the heart.
Jeremiah describes the human heart as deceitful and desperately sick. - A sick heart can produce destructive choices.
Jesus taught that evil thoughts and sinful actions come from within the heart. - Temptation begins within us.
James 1:14–15 describes how desire can lead to sin, and sin ultimately brings death. - Our feelings don’t determine reality.
We can sincerely believe something that isn’t true. Our hearts cannot change reality simply because we believe something. - Don’t give your heart authority over your decisions.
The heart may offer its opinion, but it should not be treated as the ultimate source of wisdom and truth. - Jesus demonstrated perfect submission.
Even Jesus faced a moment when His human desire was different from what lay before Him. He chose the Father’s will. - We must learn to say no to ourselves.
Following Christ sometimes means rejecting what we personally want to follow God’s will. - There is a trustworthy heart.
While our hearts can be sick and deceitful, God’s heart is pure, holy, good, and trustworthy. - Follow the heart of God.
The ultimate solution is not simply to follow our own hearts more carefully, but to surrender our hearts and lives to God’s revealed will.