Sin. That lovely word that the world denies and even Christians really don’t like to talk about. But it’s there and it’s real and it trips us up at every step. In the book of Jeremiah we read “ The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?” Our spirit can be redeemed by the blood of Christ and born again into a living hope, our minds can be renewed continuously by the Word of God so that we can walk in renewed clarity, but still we remain a battlefield within because of the wickedness that remains in our heart. This is why when someone (lets call him Bob) is acting in ways contrary to scripture and Joel defends him with the words “I know this might not be right but I know Bob has a good heart”, I’m like “REALLY!??” Scripture is clear – none of us has a good heart. Our hearts are deceitful, and our tongues often prove it because Jesus told us that “out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks”. [Matthew 12:34] We