Articles Tagged 'It' (Page 5)

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.

We'll Never Be Happy Here (And That's Okay)

Michele Howe reminds of that glorious moments are precious and fleeting, until they last forever with Jesus in glory.

We love glorious moments, but they don't last that long... until, with Jesus, they last forever.

The Spirit Opens Our Eyes to Truth

Ron Rose reminds us that without the Holy Spirit alive in us, we have no guide to help us understand the Scriptures, much less God or Jesus or the holy plans and promises for us!

"I remember when that knowledge really hit me for the first time... that to get the whole truth, you have to have the Holy Spirit.'

Finding Jesus: Experiencing Immanuel

Phil Ware shares a summary of Matthew's Immanuel sayings focused on experiencing Jesus today.

Do we feel like we have to keep up some kind of smokescreen so others won't know about our own times of emptiness and longing?

Sharing Our Cup of Gratitude

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in online worship through words and music, using YouTube videos to lead us to sing with hearts full of gratitude for all that God has done for us in Jesus.

We want to be a people who sing to God out of hearts full of gratitude because of our riches in Christ Jesus!

God's Great Gift to Us!

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in an online, virtual worship through words and music using YouTube videos to remind us and help us celebrate and live in appreciation to the grace of God.

Let's live out God's gift of grace by celebrating God's goodness, loving Jesus, and obeying what the Lord taught as we love, serve, and treat others as our Savior did!

Aligning Our Interior and Exterior Worlds

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in an online, virtual worship through words and music using YouTube videos to call us to align our internal feelings of love for God with our external daily lives that should be lived as our worship of God.

David concludes Psalm 19 with a prayer that his interior and exterior worlds align with the character of God and bring the LORD pleasure!

What It Means to Follow

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in online, virtual worship through words and music using YouTube videos to help us understand, celebrate, commit, and confess what it means to follow Jesus.

When Peter, Andrew, James, and John accepted Jesus' call to follow him, everything changed for them!

The Paraclete

Max Lucado reminds us of the Holy Spirit living in us based on Jesus' promise and Jesus' special name for the Spirit, the Paraclete

The Spirit is a person. And Jesus calls him the Paraclete.

Something Simple, Something Glorious

Phil Ware reminds us that though the bread and wine of this meal are simple, so were Jesus' words to Jairus' daughter, and those words changed everything.

Don't be fooled by the simplicity of this meal, but be reminded that Jesus makes simple things glorious!

On the Life and Passing of Anthony Bourdain

Grant Rampy talks about once coveting the fame, fast life, riches, travel, experiences, and accomplishments of Anthony Bordain until realizing what he chased ended up empty and alone.

I am more grateful than ever for my comparably simple station, one that allows me both quiet time at home and the opportunity to travel — to enjoy both friends and strangers.

Guarding Our Treasure with Faith, Love, and the Holy Spirit

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in an online, DIY, worship through words and music using YouTube videos to inspire us to love the treasure of the gospel God invested in us and to live with faith, love, and the Holy Spirit as we proclaim and protec

Paul's goal was not to clutter Timothy's mind with needless details, but to encourage him to guard his precious gospel treasure.

Posers and Pretenders

Ron Rose is back having conversations over coffee, and including all people and their stories in his conversations whether or not he agrees with them.

We are all damaged and divided, and there seems to be a whole bunch of us who've become professional pretenders and posers, desperately seeking to be little tin gods who want to be in charge.

Houses for Healing!

Phil Ware shares the work of Houses for Healing (H4H) in Abilene, Texas, which serves people of that region of Texas with a place to stay while they (or their family with them) are receiving medical care in Abilene.

This example of bringing together a coalition of people, organizations, churches, and businesses to bless others in the name of Jesus is a powerful example of what Kingdom life could be!

Night Songs

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in an online, worship through words and music using YouTube videos to invite God to permeate every moment of every day, including having our hearts tuned to God with night songs.

God wants us to live our lives to the full, inviting him to permeate each moment of each day, including our sleep time!

Jesus' Power to Get It Done

Phil Ware continues his series called 8GHT, focusing on eight principles out of Acts 1:1-10, today his focus is on the Holy Spirit being the power behind the early church.

We must not forget to punch that little red button and make sure the current of heaven's grace and power flow to us and flow through us to the world.

Is Anything Sacred?

Max Lucado talks about his experiences as a baseball catcher and how the dimensions of homeplate were immutable, sacred, and in a sense holy and compares that to certain things in life that God has called sacred and holy.

Like speedbumps and curbs, these acts of holiness are meant to slow us down and keep us on the road.

8GHT: The Revolutionary Power of Witnesses

Phil Ware continues his short series on Acts 1:1-11 called Phil Ware continues his series called 8GT -- Eight Truths that Turned the World Upside Down -- and focuses on finding those seeking Jesus and being witnesses to them of the great things Jesus has

Let's be witnesses with those here, near, and far like the first followers of Jesus did!

Sky, Dirt, and Dreams Unfolding

Melissa Troyer shares her insightful, home-loving momma whose meditations about life, family, and faith help us grab what is most important in life.

Buried deep in the earth of our hearts, God has buried dreams and hopes. While they lie under the surface, they ARE there.

Generous Like Our Father

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in an online, DIY, worship through words and music using YouTube videos to celebrate our blessings in Christ and our need to reflect our Father's values by being generous and gracious ourselves.

'Keep on helping the poor...' was a core commitment that came out of this history-changing moment in Jesus' church!

Peace in This World?

Melissa Troyer reminds us that our world is broken and full of chaos, but we can find peace in this world in Jesus.

We were not created for war, fighting, and death. No wonder our souls gasp for justice and a peaceful community.

8GHT: It's All About Jesus

Phil Ware continues his series called 8GHT -- Eight Truths that Turned the World Upside Down! from Acts 1:1-11, this week focusing on Jesus as the Message, Motive, Model, and Mover in the early days of the church.

Behind every move made by disciples in the book of Acts, Jesus was The Mover!

What Exalts a Nation?

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in an online, DIY, worship through words and music using YouTube videos to call us to be the light-bearers of Christ Jesus to our dark world caught in a cycle of decay, destruction, and death.

As we worship, let's open our hearts to God and his call for us to be his blessing to our broken world.

8GHT: Jesus Isn't Finished with Us Yet!

Phil Ware begins an eight-part series on eight truths that turned the world upside down, a look at the early verses of the book of Acts.

Behind every act of power in Acts, we see Jesus at work, guiding his followers and providing his strength for them to do what he asked of them.

You Will Get Through This!

Max Lucado shares the encouragement that we can get through our tough times just like Joseph did his.

Life is hard, but God is great at helping us get THROUGH life's toughest challenges and will never abandone us!

FEPDO

Phil Ware talks about a discovery he made in Acts 1 -- that the early disciples chose to depend upon God's guidance for their direction, decisions, and future.

In cornbread English, these loose lug nuts didn't have a clue about what to do next, so they looked to God for guidance.