Thick Skin and Soft Hearts

Focus: Learning to have "Thick Skin and a Soft Heart" will make you glad from the inside out regardless of your circumstances.

I. The danger of HARD HEARTS (3:8,13,15)
A. Hard HEARTS STRAY (3:10)
1. SPORADIC GLANCES
2. RATIONAL LIES
3. DISOBEDIENCE
4. OPEN REBELLION
B. Hard Hearts NEVER ENTER God's REST (3:11,18-19)
II. How to be TOUGH & TENDER
A. HOLD ON (3:6,14)
1. Grip with FIXED ATTENTION (3:1)
2. LISTEN (3:15)
3. BELIEVE (3:19)
4. SURRENDER (opposite of rebellion (3:8,15)
5. OBEY (3:18)
B. Hold on TOGETHER in COMMUNITY (3:12-13)