ToGather 2020 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.

So the World Will Know

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · 1 Corinthians 12 · Body of Christ

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in virtual worship through words and music using YouTube videos and invite us to live as Jesus' bodily presence in the world, today.

Let's each pledge to use our spiritual gifts as different parts of Jesus' body and join together to live as Jesus in the world.

The King Who Shares Our Wounds

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · 1 Samuel 12:20 · Women · Wounds

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in virtual worship through words and music using YouTube videos and invite us to welcome Jesus, God who came to us to share our wounds and we see this in his manger and cross, the thrones on which he was exalted and

As we come to understand God as the King willing to show us his wounds, then share our wounds, the birth of Jesus takes on a fresh and powerful new meaning.

ONE!

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · 1 Corinthians 12:6 · Holy Spirit

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in virtual worship through words and music using YouTube videos and invite us to see the power of the Holy Spirit to make us part of Jesus' one body.

Jesus wants to be united as one!

X > !

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · Matthew 12 · Lord

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in virtual worship through words and music using YouTube videos to honor Jesus as greater than anything or anyone.

Jesus won't let us classify him as just another good teacher: He challenges us to decide if he is Lord, liar, or lunatic!

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by Phil Ware · Matthew 12:1-50 · Lord

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in virtual worship through words and music using YouTube videos to challenge us to honor and obey Jesus as Savior and Lord because he is greater!

You're invited to use our worship guide for your home or group worship!

Sharing the Lord's Table

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · 1 Corinthians 10:16-17 · Lord's Supper

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in virtual worship through words and music using YouTube videos to challenge us to explore deeper biblical messages in the Lord's Supper than we often allow ourselves to consider.

We are still a family gathered to remember Jesus, even when we gather virtually!

Unflattering Beauty

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · Philippians 2:5-11 · Beauty

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in virtual worship through words and music using YouTube videos to challenge us to use our strengths, interests, and gifts to bless others and glorify God.

We must try to see each other, our world, and ourselves with the eyes and the heart of God, not through our own self-serving point of view.

No Unfinished Business!

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · Joshua 11:15 · Finish

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in virtual worship through words and music using YouTube videos to challenge us to live for God and finish what he has given us to do by investing in future generations to carry on God's work.

Can you live certain that you will finish all you are supposed to do in this life before you leave it?

New Frontiers of Grace through Obedience

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · Deuteronomy 11:8-9

Phil Ware lead through worship in song, the Lord's Supper, a powerful message from God's word about the blessings in obedience to give us the freedom to become all that God intended us to be.

We believe in the Lord's goodness and grace. We trust that obeying the LORD opens our lives to the new frontiers of his grace!

iBELIEVE!

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · Hebrews 11:1 · Believe

Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware lead through worship in song, the Lord's Supper, a powerful message from God's word about committing to believe even when our challenges are difficult and life is hard, along with a closing blessing for worship from home with

Believing in God's faithfulness can be hard in difficult seasons and during those times, we need to look to Jesus for help and say, 'Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.'

Please Encourage Someone!

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · Hebrews 10:25 · Encourage

Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware lead through worship in song, the Lord's Supper with Rubel Shelly, a powerful message from God's word about encouraging each other

Today's message is a reminder of something that God, throughout the Scriptures and in every age, has urged his people to do: Encourage someone!

Beyond a Sagging Roof!

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · Ecclesiastes 10:18 · Lazy

Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware lead through worship in song, the Lord's Supper, a powerful message from God's word about not being lazy and neglectful of the opportunities God has given us to lead others to Jesus, along with a closing blessing for worship

We are broken vessels, saved by grace and empowered by the Holy Spirit to make a difference in our broken world with the grace that we have received.

The Good Shepherd

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · John 10:10-14 · Shepherd

Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware lead through worship in song, the Lord's Supper, a powerful message from God's word about Jesus our good shepherd, along with a closing blessing for worship from home with family and friends in a meaningful way.

Imagine the audacity of Jesus to identify himself as the LORD, our shepherd, the one David praises in Psalm 23 as well the God of deliverance who identified himself to Moses at the burning bush in Exodus 3!

The End of the Law?

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · Romans 2:1-8:39 · Role model · Righteousness

Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware lead through worship in song, the Lord's Supper, a powerful message from God's word, and a closing blessing for worship from home with family and friends in a meaningful way - we can be assured our righteous was purchased by

As we join together to honor Jesus as our Christ and Lord, we can lay every burden down and rejoice in the grace God has lavished upon us.

Intentional Godliness

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · 1 Corinthians 9:24-27 · Good News · Godliness

Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware lead through worship in song, the Lord's Supper, a powerful message from God's word, and a closing blessing for worship from home with family and friends in a meaningful way - we are called to live godly lives, intentionally!

Godliness means having the commitment and the spiritual discipline to live in ways that honor and reflect the character and compassion of God.

Jesus Is Both Savior and Lord

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · Luke 8:18-27 · Lord

Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware lead through worship in song, the Lord's Supper, a powerful message from God's word, and a closing blessing for worship from home with family and friends in a meaningful way - we need to place our challenges in Jesus' hands!

Jesus isn't just our Savior; he is also our Lord. As Lord, Jesus challenges us to take up our cross and follow him.

More Than I Can Handle!

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · Luke 9

Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware lead through worship in song, the Lord's Supper, a powerful message from God's word, and a closing blessing for worship from home with family and friends in a meaningful way - we need to place our challenges in Jesus' hands!

Jesus put his disciples into a position where they realized that they needed to lean in and lean on him.

I Forgot How Big!

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · Nehemiah 9:6

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead through worship in song, the Lord's Supper, a powerful message from God's word, and a blessing to enable us to worship from home or with family and friends in a meaningful way. They invite us to remember just how big o

Nehemiah reminded God's people — even as they lived among the ruins of their failed history — that God is bigger than their failures and can re-create his new future for them.

Will I Be Jesus' Canvas and Clay?

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · John 8:30-32 · Obedience

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead through worship in song, the Lord's Supper, a powerful message from God's word, and a blessing to enable us to worship from home or with family and friends in a meaningful way and ask this important question: Can I rea

Have I truly decided to follow Jesus no matter where it may lead me? Jesus is the artist and the potter; each of us needs to be the canvas and clay where he creates a masterpiece.

Full Adoption into God's Family

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · Romans 8:22-23 · Children of God

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead through worship in song, the Lord's Supper, a powerful message from God's word, and a blessing to enable us to worship from home or with family and friends in a meaningful way and ask this important question: Can I rea

We are God's precious and highly valued adopted children!

Who Will Carry Us?

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · Matthew 8:16-17 · Identity

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead through worship in song, the Lord's Supper, a powerful message from God's word, and a blessing to enable us to worship from home or with family and friends in a meaningful way and ask this important question: Who will

Young children can fall asleep anywhere and sleep peacefully, trusting that those who love them will carry them where they need to go!

Children of God by the Spirit

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · Romans 8:9

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead through worship in song, the Lord's Supper, a powerful message from God's word, and a blessing to enable us to worship from home or with family and friends in a meaningful way.

How can we be shaped by both our Father's nature and his nurture?

Set Free by the Spirit

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · Romans 8:1-4 · Holy Spirit

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead through worship in song, the Lord's Supper, a powerful message from God's word, and a blessing to enable us to worship from home or with family and friends in a meaningful way.

Paul insists that we serve under a new covenant, a covenant not based on law but on the life-giving Spirit of God.

Don't Make the Detestable Digestible

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · Deuteronomy 7:26 · Holiness

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead through worship in song, the Lord's Supper, a powerful message from God's word, and a blessing to enable us to worship from home or with family and friends in a meaningful way.

The call to be holy is not a call to be self-righteous, but to humbly approach God, live holy lives, and love sinners as Jesus did!

Do Again in Our Day What You Did Before!

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · Deuteronomy 7:19 · Power

Phil Ware and Demetrius Collins lead us into worship through songs, Communion, and the Word God, inviting us to realize that God's presence and power are still available to us today and we can ask God to do again in our day what he did in days of old thro

Why settle for a past-tense God when the Lord longs to move through us with power from the Holy Spirit?

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