All (Page 8) Articles 2014 Archives

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.

Community and Mission

Phil Ware continues the http://interimministrypartners.com team series on a church finding its mission and living it out so it can grow and be vital and make a difference.

Looking around can help us find our way forward!

Ordinary or Not?

Ron Rose is back to challenging us to treat our spiritual life like and adventure and let God lead us by faith and not hide the monotony of our same old routines.

Are you making it up as you go?

Forgiveness

Forgiveness is good for you. Resentment is harmful. The choice should be easy, yet we often find ourselves keeping a record of the wrongs done against us.

Forgiveness is good for you!

Making a Connection

Phil Ware looks at Jesus' interaction with the man with leprosy in Mark 1 and how it is a blueprint for how we need to be in our communication with others.

What can we learn from Jesus on how to connect when communicating?

History and Mission

Mark Frost continues a series on how a church can discover its mission.

Can we really look back to find the way to move forward?

What Jesus Said Is a Life-Changer: The Sozo Habit

Ann Voskamp shares the flash of insight that changed everything and began the journey of a 1000 God gifts and eucharisteo and thanksgiving.

One perspective change, one life change, and salvation can flood in!

Tattletales, the Devil, and You

Satan wants to tattle on us to God so we get what we deserve. God will not let him. Instead, he forgives our sin.

Satan wants to make sure you get what's coming to you. Not God.

Inspired Truth?

Phil Ware remembers an old mentor who has gone to be with Jesus, Neil Lightfoot, and as he recalls a lesson from John 4 about real faith is also reminded about the nature of inspired truth.

What makes Scripture inspired truth?

A Humble Suggestion

Kasey Pipes shares very personal observations about Washington, D.C., politics, humility, blogging, writing, and pride.

What can this former Whitehouse staffer teach us about humility and forgiveness?

The Importance of Being Judgmental

Rubel Shelly takes on the risky topic of being judgmental and risks saying that there are times when we must be discerning and use proper judgment.

So is there really something good about being judgmental

Who Can We Trust?

Tom Norvell shares with us insight into our skepticism and why we find it so hard to trust anyone.

In a world of deception, spin, and verbal hedging, is there anyone we can trust?

The NEW of New Years

Being a follower of Jesus makes one's life NEW and notice the words that said old things have passed away. When you make that decision to follow Jesus and are baptized, then your "old things" do not matter to God anymore; you are NEW.

The year is new… are you?

Examen: Thinking through my Years

Jackie Halstead shares with us the process of Examen as she reviews 2013 and looks ahead to 2014 and dedicates her life to God.

How can we move forward and not just repeat the same old things?

Losing the Hidden Weight in 2014

Ron Rose shares with us about weight problems, not pounds, but hidden weight with regret, worries, burdens, resentments, failures, and those kinds of things that we need to leave behind after we have handed them over to Jesus.

What are you carrying around unnecessarily in your hidden weight?

Prayer for 2014

Rubel Shelly re-shares a prayer for the New Year and a fresh start on life.

Let's begin with prayer!

The Year of Our Lord

Every man's life is divided into "Before Christ" and "After Christ." We come to know of him, we learn about him, then we decide. We decide to reject him and all that he stands for. Or we believe in him, and receive all that he has to offer.

His coming divided the history of the world into two parts