10/14/2026
Your heart is out of tune. You just can’t hear it yet.
An out of tune piano can sound completely fine when it’s played alone. It’s only when you put it next to an instrument that’s properly tuned that the problem becomes obvious. And a piano can’t fix itself by listening to its own notes. It needs a standard outside itself.
Our hearts work the same way. We can walk through weeks that feel “fine” while stress, distractions, and small compromises slowly pull us off pitch.
Pastor Jeff walked us through four ways to bring our hearts back in tune:
1. Find a standard outside yourself. Comparing ourselves to ourselves doesn’t work. Neither does comparing ourselves to the people around us (“I’m not as bad as so-and-so”), or to a culture that keeps changing. God’s Word is the one unchanging reference. God doesn’t tune His truth to fit our hearts. He tunes our hearts to His truth.
2. Set your heart, don’t just follow it. Setting your heart means making Jesus your ultimate priority on purpose, the way you’d set your GPS before a long drive. It also comes with a few uncomfortable questions. If you had to prove in court that He’s your number one priority, could you? But why is “follow your heart” such shaky advice? Because feelings are temporary, the heart is skilled at talking itself into bad decisions, and strong emotions create blind spots. The better path is to lead your heart, and to be careful what you feed it. You can’t cook a great meal with ingredients from the city dump.
3. Tune your heart toward each other. Hearts rarely drift in one big moment. It’s a neglected prayer life here, a little bitterness left unresolved there, until Jesus is still in your life but no longer on the throne. The church was never meant to tune alone. When we’re unified, God’s power is unleashed, and the greatest evangelism plan of all time is simply us loving each other well. That starts with getting past surface-level small talk, joining a smaller group, serving side by side, and making time for coffee, lunch, or a walk.
4. Tune your heart to His mission. Our mission begins and ends with Jesus, not slogans, trends, or organizational goals. That means asking hard questions about what pulls us off course: comfort over calling, preferences over purpose, maintenance over ministry, or criticism over community.
And if you’ve been drifting for a while, here’s some encouragement… TURN AROUND. God never went anywhere. He’s right there.
