Articles Tagged 'Rebuild'

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.

Fear Is an Option

Max Lucado reminds us that fear can either crowd out our faith or our faith can crowd out our fear; the option and the choice are ours.

Fear and discouragement can rule our hearts, but we can choose another option!

As Each Part Does Its Work

Phil Ware shares a third message from the book of Nehemiah, this one focusing on the great work of ordinary people given in lists of names in Nehemiah.

How in the world could they do such a herculean task in less than eight weeks?

How Cowards Become Heroes

Rubel Shelly uses the story of John Callender's failure and subsequent courage to remind us how to overcome the failure of our past.

Does such a transformation actually happen?

Time to Re-prime?

Phil Ware continues the Interim Ministry Partners series on helping declining and aging churches find new life.

Can a declining church embrace a new mission?

Shattered

Phil Ware talks about what to do when relationships are shattered and how it feels easier to trade in those relationships for new ones, but asks if this is really smartest and if it honors Christ and our walk with God.

What do you do when things fracture between you and someone important to you?

The Story: Rebuild and Restore

Phil Ware takes us back to The Story, God's story and our story and reminds us that while rebuilding infrastructure for a city and country is hard, it is even harder to rebuild the morale, moral, and faith foundation.

How can you tell how we are doing with our spirituality?

We Need Rest

Tom Norvell reminds us of our need for rest and to rest in Jesus, in God, and in the Spirit.

Don't you sense this need?

Just Trying to Help

People are ready to help in the Katrina crisis, thank God!

Can you find the energy to do something?