Articles Tagged 'America'

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.

Messenger to Humankind

by Phillip Morrison · Isaiah 6:1-10 · Love · Prejudice · Violence

Phil Ware adds some beginning thoughts and Phillip Morrison writes beautifully about a messenger to mankind and The Messenger to humankind.

Is there any message we can take from our dark night of the human soul?

Daddy!

by Phillip Morrison · Proverbs 4:1-5 · Father's Day

Phillip Morrison reminds us of the role and importance of a dad and father on Father's Day.

Father, Daddy, means so much more than just the oldest man in the house!

50 Years

by Phillip Morrison · Isaiah 6:1-8 · Grief

Phillip Morrison, with a few words of introduction by Phil Ware, reflects on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the events that include Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby and the time that all of America became a church.

Some things echo through time and their sounds never really leave your ears.

By the Grace of God

by Phillip Morrison · Matthew 25:40 · Burnout · Build

Phillip Morrison shares an experience building a Habitat for Humanity house with an African American Methodist preacher and him a Church of Christ preacher.

Two preachers putting in sweat equity like Jesus?

Remembering Odessa Porterfield

by Rubel Shelly · Revelation 14:13

Rubel Shelly remembers a beloved African American woman who forever changed his life as a little boy through manhood.

What difference can one old woman make in your life?

Simon's Mistaken Judgement

by Rubel Shelly · 1 Samuel 16:17 · Gifts

Rubel Shelly compares the prophet Samuel choosing a king to Simon Cowell's view of a woman from Scotland trying to sing and reminds us that outward appearances don't reveal talent or the heart of a person.