Articles Tagged 'Allow'

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.

There in the Deep End

Ron Rose writes about his daughter Julie from long ago and how she didn't want to swim in the deep end of the pool if her teacher wasn't there.

Yesterday, in practice, she was the only one who did it. Why was she so afraid today?

Lord, Teach Us to Pray: Abba Father

Phil Ware and Doug Peters remind us what it means to pray to God as our Abba Father and then give us some pratical ways that we can experience God as Abba in our prayer life.

How do we combine both reverence and familiarity, respect and intimacy?

Teach Us to Pray 05: Holy Presence

Phil Ware and Andy Johnson remind us how important reverencing God is when we pray.

We cry out together, as Jesus' followers and family, for God's holiness to make itself known in undeniable ways in our fallen world.

Teach us to Pray 04: Abba Father

Phil Ware and Doug Peters remind us what it means to pray to God as our Abba Father and then give us some pratical ways that we can experience God as Abba in our prayer life.

How do we combine both reverence and familiarity, respect and intimacy?

Couldn't!

Phil Ware reminds us of the dangers of limiting what Jesus can do among us and through us because we think we know what we can expect of him.

As Jesus' family, what are we preventing him from doing among us because of our lack of faith?

Experience Immanuel

Phil Ware finishes up his 5 part series on experiencing Immanuel and summarizes the content of the four previous articles.

Why do we settle for so much less of Jesus than He promised us?

Horrifying Halloween

Phil Ware writes about children being valued for who they are.

How can it be worse?

But Can She Sing?

Rubel Shelly talks about the shallowness of the Chinese to place appearance above all things and then pass it off as something else.

What's more important, style or substance?

Checking Off Boxes?

Russ Lawson reminds us that we need to give up our check off the boxes mentality when it comes to thanking God and just respond to his grace genuinely from the heart.

How can we move away from this demeaning habit?

God's Holy Spirit

No matter what evil spirits are present in this life, we know that God has given us a spirit that is stronger than all others. The message of God to this world is that God’s Holy Spirit is the only spirit worth celebrating, even on Halloween.

The one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

Gallows?

The old Gallows of the city of Chicago were left in the basement for years and years and this reminds Patrick of things that we allow to sit around in our hearts and fester and destroy us for years.

Why in the world would anyone keep this around in their basement?

Horrifying Halloween

An awful Halloween ten years ago reminds us how important it is to value children for who they are!

What could make Halloween any more horrifying than it already is?

Haunted House

Don't simply get rid of evil, but fill your life with goodness!

Jesus talked about a haunted house?