Articles Tagged 'Arts'

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.

Prayer and Mission

by Mark Frost · Mission

Mark Frost continues the series on discovering your mission before finding your minister with the Interim Ministry Partners team and he focuses on prayer.

So if they didn't and couldn't, how dare we?

Hope in our Messy Days

by Melissa Troyer · Matthew 7:7-8 · Messes

Melissa Troyer reminds us that life's messes should drive us to our knees and open our hearts to the love, grace, and freedom of God!

Parenting cuts deep to the core. It lays open our needs before God, and we can either resent it or embrace the powerful cleansing that comes from God's purifying fire

Sharing Our Cup of Gratitude

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · Colossians 3:16 · Gratitude

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in online worship through words and music, using YouTube videos to lead us to sing with hearts full of gratitude for all that God has done for us in Jesus.

We want to be a people who sing to God out of hearts full of gratitude because of our riches in Christ Jesus!

Jesus, After Christmas Coming

by Phil Ware · John 20:21 · Body of Christ

Phil Ware reminds us that Christmas isn't over, but now our role is to be Jesus' people, his presence, in our world.

Christmas isn't over; it has only just begun if we recognize that it is our job, together, to be Jesus to the world!

The Good News of Jesus Begins with a Servant

by Phil Ware · Mark 1:1-8,2:1-12 · Joy · John the Baptizer

Phil Ware continues his reflections on his gospel studies and shares how we can become JesuShaped by becoming servants like John the Baptizer and four friends.

Jesus emphasized that the greatest in the Kingdom of God is a servant, and then defined his personal mission as serving those who are lost.

Warts and All

by Philip Gulley · Luke 17:9-11 · Kindness

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.

Dealing with the Anger Inside

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · Ephesians 4:25 · Anger

Phil Ware and Demetrius Collins invite us to worship God and celebrate the work of the Holy Spirit as we are transformed to be more like our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

We are ToGather: People from around the world, gathered virtually, to honor God as we are reshaped by his Spirit to do the work of Jesus in our broken world.

The Gospel According to Nintendo

by James Nored & Phil Ware · Romans 1:18-20 · Beauty

Phil Ware continue their series on Finding Our Story in God's Story of Redemption by focusing on the beauty of creation, the arts, and sharing God.

How do we leverage creation to cry out for the Creator to be the guiding force in our lives?

Give Me Jesus: After

by Phil Ware · Romans 12 · Christmas

Phil Ware finishes his series on "Give Me Jesus" focusing on our role as his people to be his presence to the world.

Christmas isn't over; it has only just begun if we recognize that it is our job, together, to be Jesus to the world!

Prayer and Mission

by Mark Frost · Mission

Mark Frost continues the series on discovering your mission before finding your minister with the Interim Ministry Partners team and he focuses on prayer.

So if they didn't and couldn't, how dare we?

Open Doors, Open Hearts

by Phil Ware · Colossians 4:3 · Opportunity

Phil Ware reminds us of our need for God's help to open hearts so that we can share Jesus with others.

Please pray that God will open the door to effective ministry!

Excavation

by Patrick D. Odum · 2 Peter 1:3-4 · Heart

Patrick Odum shares insight based on the buried Red Sox jersey in the new Yankee Stadium concrete and compares it to getting rid of the sin that lurks in our hearts.

What's buried in the concrete of your heart?

The Place of Christmas

by Charlotte Barres · Matthew 25:37-40 · Christmas

The real place Christmas happens is in our hearts, where love, joy, peace, and kindness are found.

Where does Christmas really occur?

The Best Day Ever

by Patrick D. Odum · Hebrews 13:15 · Thanksgiving · Praise

God has blessed us with many things, but we don't notice them because we're looking for the big things -- so let's make praise and thanksgiving an everyday habit in our lives.

What does it take for it to be a great day for you?

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