Articles Tagged 'Eternal'

For over 30 years, Heartlight has shared articles to help people live for Jesus in everyday life. While we are no longer publishing new articles, this enduring collection features relevant pieces throughout the year to encourage faith, offer biblical perspective, and speak to real-world joys and struggles.

Sharing in the Joy!

Phil Ware takes into John 4 and Samaria with Jesus and let's Jesus speak to us about the sower and the harvester rejoicing together.

O God, please, will you let me see a little harvest... Please!

Biblical Marriage

Lee Wilson goes back to the beginning of Scripture and as an experienced relationship coach, invites people to look at God's plan to make marriages thrive.

Not an archaic form of subjugation but a divine and brilliant system for harmony, mutual enrichment, and voluntary submission!

God's Everlasting Covenant of Love

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in a virtual, DIY, worship through words and music using YouTube videos to remind us of God's everlasting covenant of love and his faithfulness to that covenant.

Your Father in heaven has loved you with an everlasting love, and all he asks is that you respond with thanks by obeying what his Son, Jesus, has taught.

Hope Is

Melissa Troyer looks at our cold world as we ensure the cold of later winter and trust life will come back in the Spring and reminds us to trust life is coming.

Hope is the life in our veins, the breath in our lungs and the courage for tomorrow.

Proof That I Belong

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in virtual worship through words and music using YouTube videos to celebrate the Holy Spirit's presence in our lives that ensures we belong to the family of God.

The work and presence of the Holy Spirit give us the assurance that God has made us his children.

God Withholds No Good Thing!

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in virtual worship through words and music using YouTube videos encouraging us to recognize that God is our Father who does not withhold from us good things, especially the best things in this life and the life to c

Our lesson elaborates on this promise from God. We know that our Father does not withhold sharing his grace and every gift that is for our best good.

Finding Jesus!

Phil Ware shares a message he has shared privately many times about how to experience Jesus, how for Jesus to be real in our lives, each day.

How do we get started on rebuilding our relationship with Jesus, a relationship He yearns to have with us?

Where Do I STAND?

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in virtual worship through words and music using YouTube videos encouraging us to stand in grace.

People "stand for" or "stand on" many things that waste their time, efforts, and lives on causes that don't really matter.

Jesus Came to Be One of Us!

James and Phil continue their series on The Story of Redemption by focusing on the birth of Jesus and what it means for us.

We desperately need to push past the glitz of the season and remember the gritty grace of the manger and the glory of God incarnate in a helpless baby who came to be one of us!

A Tabulated List of Grace

Max Lucado shares a short anecdote on forgiveness and grace.

Registered forgiveness! No humiliation! No shame!

Finding Jesus!

Phil Ware shares a message he has shared privately many times about how to experience Jesus, how for Jesus to be real in our lives, each day.

How do we get started on rebuilding our relationship with Jesus, a relationship He yearns to have with us?

Making the Profound, Simple

Phil Ware reminds us that Communion is a powerful example of Jesus taking something profound and making it simple enough for us to understand and do together.

Our LORD God Almighty is the master at making the profound feel the simple.

Forever Friends!

Phil Ware reminds us that in Jesus, we are friends, and our friendships reach around the world, across cultures, and unite us in one family.

As followers of Jesus, we are blessed to have forever friends from all over the world!

One of Us!

James and Phil continue their series on The Story of Redemption by focusing on the birth of Jesus and what it means for us.

Jesus didn't come to earth to be protected from life's harshest realities, but entered into mortality to share it all with us — the good, the bad, the ugly, and the painful!

God Made Touchable

Phil Ware challenges us to remember that Jesus was God made touchable and that Communion makes God touchable to us again.

That is God with curly dark brown hair and wood shavings in his hair and callouses on his hands. That is God come live among us.

Freedom to Choose

Max Lucado reminds us about our freedom to choose Jesus and eternal life or not.

While we can get frustrated by our lack of choices about some things in life, the most important choice of all is ours because of Jesus!

Give Me Jesus: BEFORE!

Phil Ware begins a four series set of articles for Advent and this first one is called BEFORE and focuses on Jesus being God, pre-existent before the world began.

Who is that little child in that manger who looks so tiny and fragile?

Lifestyle: Connecting Others with Jesus

Phil Ware finishes his series on "The Andrew Effect" about connecting people with Jesus by reminding us how Jesus viewed people.

How we view people impacts our lifestyle

Trophies

I know that just as my childhood trophies have lost their value to me, I'll one day look at all the things that seem so important to me now and see that they are like trash compared to knowing Christ. On that day, I'll lay my trophies down and receive wha

Are you ready to lay down your trophies?

He Chose Poorly

You can choose to get full value of God's gift, receiving eternal life. Or you can squander what you've been given, and you'll live forever with the consequences. Because, just like Ronald Wayne and just like Esau, you will reach a point where your poor c

His choice cost him billions

Thinking about Heaven... Again

I have fewer days ahead of me than behind me, and I recently have been reminded by those with fewer things than I, about having family and friends in Heaven with you.

Heaven's been on my mind again

What's Most Important?

Tom Norvell reminds us about our life's purpose, mission, goal, target and what gives our lives meaning and significance and eternal life.

So how do I find out this key to life?

Heaven and Hell

If you believe in life on this earth, then you must believe in life after death because scripture talks about both. If you believe in Heaven, then you must believe in Hell. And if you believe that God wants all of his people to go to Heaven, then you have

If you believe in Heaven, then you must believe in Hell.

Faith, Hope, Love & Deployment

Heather Gray shares a devotional on death and love and the power of God through it all for families who are deployed in harms way and she speaks with the authenticity of someone who knows because her husband David Gray was killed in Afghanistan.

For those on the front lines and face loss daily.

Grieve with Hope

Christians grieve the loss of loved ones, but we grieve differently because even in death we have hope of a better life.

Why would anyone think Chrisitans do not grieve?