Articles Tagged 'R' (Page 9)

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.

Considering Valentine's Day

by Sarah Stirman · 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 · Valentine

Sarah Stirman talks about Valentine's Day and what it means to be really in love and to share love.

So what's really the deal with Valentine's Day?

The Long, Hard Chill of Winter

by Phil Ware · James 1:2-4 · Peer Pressure · Pentecost · People

Phil Ware talks about the harshness of a long, cold, hard winter and the trials and troubles we must endure as believers.

Are you ready for the long hard chill of winter?

Transparency

by Paul Faulkner · Galatians 6:2 · Transparency

Paul Faulkner reminds us how desperately we need to be in a loving relationship with someone with whom we can be fully transparent.

How open are you to others who want to bless you?

The Spirit Opens Our Eyes to Truth

by Ron Rose · John 16:12 · Holy Spirit

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.'

A Fork in My Path

by Ben Steed · Matthew 25:37-40 · Hope · Compassion International · Poverty

Ben Steed chronicles his trip with Compassion International to Ecuador.

...make me a fork, that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me.

Hope in our Messy Days

by Melissa Troyer · Matthew 7:7-8 · Messes

Melissa Troyer reminds us that life's messes should drive us to our knees and open our hearts to the love, grace, and freedom of God!

Parenting cuts deep to the core. It lays open our needs before God, and we can either resent it or embrace the powerful cleansing that comes from God's purifying fire

How We View People

by Phil Ware · John 9:1-38 · People

Phil Ware shares a study of John 9 and reminds us how Jesus viewed people so he could share the life and light of God with them and save them.

Our approach to people must focus on helping them believe God values them and that Jesus came to serve, love, and help them find life in him

Finding Jesus: Experiencing Immanuel

by Phil Ware · Matthew 1:23,18:20,23:40,28:18-20 · 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?

Thankful for Our Greatest Gift

by Heartlight Team · Matthew 1:23 · Christmas

Christmas card and thank you from the Heartlight.org and VerseoftheDay.com team.

God has blessed us with many gifts, but the greatest of all gifts was God coming to us in Jesus of Nazareth!

Sharing Our Cup of Gratitude

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · Colossians 3:16 · 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!

Let's Keep Singing!

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · Psalm 95:1-2 · Singing

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in online worship through words and music using YouTube videos inviting us to rejoice and sing to the LORD with joy and thanksgiving.

Songs enable us to speak to God from all the different tangents, orbits, pressures, situations, and experiences in our lives.

Using Our Freedom Redemptively

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · 1 Peter 2:15-16 · Freedom

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in an online worship through words and music using YouTube videos to remind us we are free in Christ from bondage to sin, death, satan, hell, purposelessness, loneliness, so we can use our freedom to serve and liber

In our broken world where people say and do hostile things against us, we choose to use our freedom to serve them in love.

Bringing All Things Together in Christ

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · Ephesians 1:9-10

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in an online worship through words and music using YouTube videos to help us understand and connect emotionally with God's mystery to bring things together in Christ.

Our hope, our answer, and God's unveiling of his greatest mysteries are found in Jesus, the Messiah, Son of God, the Christ who is our Savior and Lord!

God's Great Gift to Us!

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · Ephesians 2:1-10 · Grace

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!

Having a Fitting Reply

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · Proverbs 15:23 · Encourage

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in online, virtual worship through words and music using YouTube videos to help us understand how to give fitting replies to others in different conversation contexts.

Let's worship today, praising God and asking for the help of the Holy Spirit as we seek to respond to people as Jesus did!

At the End of Ourselves

by Melissa Troyer · Matthew 14:28-20

Melissa Troyer talks about coming to the end of our own abilities, resources, and power to fix ourselves, our problems, and deal with our difficult situations on our own, and then we ask for help and prayer.

Why do we limit our lives to the mundane of only what we can see? Why, oh why, do we cling to safety over being truly alive?

Aligning Our Interior and Exterior Worlds

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · Psalm 19:14 · Achievement · Align

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

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · Deuteronomy 13:4

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!

Safe!

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · Proverbs 29:25 · Salvation · Safety

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in an online, worship through words and music using YouTube videos to call us to trust that God will keep us safe and honor all that we have entrusted to him.

Much of the recent worldwide conversation has been focused on the question, 'How can we be kept safe in our world today?'

Our Father's Grace Becomes Our Mission

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · 1 John 2:1-2 · Atonement

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in online, virtual worship through words and music using YouTube videos to remind us of the great assurance we have with Jesus as our advocate interceding for us and presenting us to God in his righteousness.

Few truths are more important to us than Jesus' promise to be at the Father's side interceding for us and presenting us to the Father as holy children of the King!

A Heart for God's People

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · Philippians 2:3-4 · Servant

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in online virtual worship through words and music using YouTube videos to call us to have a heart for God's people and to serve them in love.

Status-seeking and a lust for superiority and power over others cannot be part of the Jesus lifestyle!

The Paraclete

by Max Lucado · John 14

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.

I Will Lift My Eyes

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · Psalm 121:1-2 · Help

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in an online, worship through words and music using YouTube videos to lift our eyes to the LORD and receive our strength, hope, and encouragement from him.

Despite many warnings from the prophets, Israel began felt entitled because they were God's PEOPLE, in God's PLACE, by God's POWER.

Something Simple, Something Glorious

by Phil Ware · 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 · Communion

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

by Grant Rampy · Exodus 20:12 · Old · Fame

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.

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