Discipleship and Groups Pastor Trey Hammond launches the Words to the Wise series with one of Solomon's most urgent commands: guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life. Drawing from Proverbs 4:20–27, Mark 7, and Jeremiah 17, he makes the case that humanity's greatest problem isn't external but internal — a heart that has been corrupted since the fall and is prone to wander. He lays out three practical strategies for guarding the heart: feeding your soul, filtering out trash, and fixing your eyes on truth. The core distinction that anchored the message: facts provide information, but truth produces transformation.