Pastor Robert Foote

After the Lord’s Heart – Where Is It Found?  How Was It Kept? One does not have to watch too many heart surgery videos – even the animated type – to want to avoid heart surgery. Having been a pastor for some time, I have been astonished with the skills of all sorts of surgeons. […]

Some Forms of Cardiac Care Surgery Are Growing – Some Are Contracting – Consider Risk iData research reports that by 2019 over 900,000 heart surgeries were performed every year  (June 1, 2020). In 2005, it was about 700,000. Yet, simultaneously, since the turn-of-the-century, more hospitals are offering coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgeries, but fewer

The Necessity of Heart Surgery –Means Making an “Opening” Certainly surgery is not high on the list of desired interventions when it comes to cardiac care. Changes in diet, exercise, cessation of smoking, and, of course, medication are oftentimes the first steps prescribed by a physician before surgery is considered. That is unless the situation

What Does Your Heart Look like? – Who Is Looking with What Eyes? Our theme this Lent is “Heart Conditions – After the Lord’s Heart.” The second part of the theme comes from the book of Acts, the first missionary journey of Paul and Barnabas. Paul is preaching in what would be modern-day Turkey. He

Hearts of Stone and a New Heart Sprinkled Clean In a way, it’s painful even to think about open-heart surgery. It is complex.  It takes a team of skilled surgeons, doctors, nurses, and a lot of highly technical equipment – usually a heart-lung machine… and some cold water! I have never met a perfusion technologist,

The Strength of an Undivided Heart – How the Body Can Repair Itself The first king of Israel – King Saul – stood a head taller than everybody else, was handsome, and had money. Not a bad choice based upon looks. But Saul had a key weakness in leadership; he kept looking to himself to

Fools for Christ the Strength of Our Heart – Growing in Grace and Knowledge Apparently the origin of April Fools’ Day goes back to France during the 1500s, and is at least tangentially related to the failure of the Reformation to take hold there. One of the many decisions that came from The Council of

Strength of Unity – How the Heart and the Congregation Are Strong As a Unit Heart muscle is unique. Without being redundant I might add that heart muscle is only found in the heart! It is unique in location and it is unique in construction. Because of the physiology of heart muscle, it has the

No Debate about the Ability to Strengthen the Heart As I have revisited physiology – specifically the physiology of the heart – I have relearned the truth that we are always learning! Even websites that are a few years old can be out of date when it comes to science. One website that I referenced

Greater than the Heart –Cheering Up Your Heart. If someone has a cardiac arrest the key is to encourage the person to do the best they can to get that heart started up again! If their name happens to be “Bart,” here’s a good cheer: “Bart! Bart! Start your heart!” And…  that should do the