Articles Tagged 'Accept'

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.

The Pentecost Challenge

Ron Rose is back at Black Rifle Coffee Company and visiting with friends about Pentecost Sunday and knowing each other's names.

We long for the day when we know fully, even as we are fully known!

Let God Love You!

Max Lucado reminds us to accept and receive the love God longs to give us.

Do more than try to hang onto love. Let's God's love Hang on to you!

The Pentecost Challenge

Ron Rose is back at Black Rifle Coffee Company and visiting with friends about Pentecost Sunday and knowing each other's names.

We long for the day when we know fully, even as we are fully known!

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.

Helping Immigrants & Refugees Get Involved with a Spiritual Group

Rhonda Underhill shares ways that newly arrived immigrants, especially older ones, can make a new home in their new world

These displaced people need to discover Jesus' love and the love of his people.

Warts and All

Philip Gulley uses his homespun charm to pay tribute to a hero, tell a self-effacing story about childhood warts and crushes, and weaves it together to remind us of God's love and how we should love others.

When I recall how Mr. Ellis brought me back into the human fold, I remember that Jesus once took ten lepers in hand and did the same.

Let God Love You!

Max Lucado reminds us to accept and receive the love God longs to give us.

Do more than try to hang onto love. Let's God's love Hang on to you!

Let the Water Be Your Friend

Phillip Morrison shares some beautiful insight on unity, baptism, and how the water can be our friend if we let it!

It was with fear and trembling that she made her unsteady way down the steps and stood, shaking like a leaf!

You Be You!

Max Lucado reminds us that God didn't call us to be anyone else, but calls us to be the person whom he made for his purposes.

Don't try to be someone else, God made you to be you for his purposes.

Going to the Dogs

Teresa draws a parallel between what we can learn from our dogs and what we can learn from Jesus.

What can we learn from this faithful friend?

Yardsticks: How the hidden Dangers of Comparison Are Killing Us and Our Daughters

Ann Voskamp reminds women and their daughters about the dangers of comparison and how it belittles the work of God going on in each person we see.

Have we turned our yardsticks into swords?

Home on the Range

Tom Norvell reminds us of the power of encouraging and discouraging words and how we need to make the place where we find ourselves home on the range.

Don't you long for a place with no discouraging words!

Getting It Wrong

Russ Lawson reminds us that to err is human, that we sin, we mess up, we falter, we are wrong, we make mistakes, but God is in the cleansing and forgiving business and can take care of it if we will admit it and ask for forgiveness.

Come on, now, 'fess up to the truth — it's liberating!

The Story: Jesus' Ministry Begins

Phil Ware continues his series on The Story and reminds us that we can all be John the Baptist, the baptizer, to people around us.

Why does Jesus' ministry begin with John?

More than Mr. Rogers

Phil Ware continues his series called UNPREDICTABLE about Jesus and his love and grace and call to follow him in holiness and reminds us that grace calls us from sin and death and to a life of holiness.

Jesus calls us beyond the narrow caricatures of grace.

The List

Jesus' family tree teaches us that God can work through all kinds of people.

Surprises in the family tree

Praying for the Dawn

Rubel Shelly talks about when we can see the dawn and tells a rabbinic story about when we see the light in someone else's eyes and welcome them, even if they are a stranger.

Where do you see the light?

Trust the Miracle

Ron Rose talks about trust issues and reveals that it is a God-thing, empowered by the Holy Spirit.

This is one miracle we can all see happen in our lives!

Delight

Patrick Odum writes about a woman who is getting plastic surgery to help make her look like Jessica Alba and talks about what it would take to make us feel lovely and acceptable to God.

Why in the world would someone do this?

For Sale Signs

Being acceptable to Jesus is not like getting a house ready to sell.

What kind of

Tested and Approved

Laura Baker reminds us that we are tested and approved by God.

What does it lead us to do?

Throwing Stones

The story of Jesus and the woman caught in adultery teaches us how the church should deal with sinful people ... because the church is full of sinful people.

The church is not a rock-throwing society ...

Welcome One Another

Phil Ware looks at Romans 15:7 and shares an experience from Thailand about feeling accepted and connected to people very different from himself.

How could I feel at home so far away from home?

Chosen

Phil Ware describes a dream a friend had about Phil's dad -- and he shares how hard it is for him to accept that God feels that way about him, too.

Can you really accept that God views you as He does?

Excuse Making

Rubel Shelly confronts our tendency to make excuses for our sins, mistakes, and errors and then try to use softer words to make them not seem so bad.

Come on, now, let's just admit to the truth!