Articles Tagged 'Be' (Page 20)

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.

What Takes Your Breath Away?

Ron Rose reminds us of the benefits of our faith and our need to celebrate them!

Isn't it all a matter of how we view things?

The Scarlet Cord

Phil Ware continues his series called Light on the Dark Side of the Mountain, and reminds us of the faith of Rahab and the two spies and how it changed everything for future generations.

What can a pro from the city and two spies teach us about the dark side of our mountain?

Design with No Designer?

Rubel Shelly challenges some of the assertions of Stephen Hawking's latest booklet.

Did he completely miss the target?

The Dirt, the Hole, the Tree, and the Question

Phil Ware shares another message in his Light on the Dark Side of the Mountain series, focusing on Abraham, Jesus, the dirt, the hole, the tree, and the question.

Do I really believe this stuff?

Priorities

Rubel Shelly reminds us of Stephen Covey and living by priorities rather than just prioritizing the things we schedule.

Do you prioritize what you schedule or do you schedule your priorities?

Building the Bridge to Bring Us Home

Phil Ware begins a new series called light on the dark side of the mountain focusing on the fall and the cracks that became a chasm in the lives of God's first children.

Is there really light on the dark side of the mountain?

Are You a Member?

Being a member of the body of Christ means forming part of a living organism. It's not like being a member of a club or member of an insurance plan.

Member of a body or member of a club?

True Peace

Bill Sherrill talks about God, who is there through all the tough and also gentle moments of our lives!

Do you have the God who is there through everything?

It's a Good Feeling To Be Chosen

It can be nerve-wracking to wait to see if we will be chosen for a job or to participate in a group. But God made His choice a long time ago.

Waiting to be chosen can be agonizing

Could Anything Else Be More Bizarre?

Rubel Shelly tells of a tragic murder in a family over a soccer game and a TV show about faith.

How does this happen?

SpiritFire - Potholes, Ditches, and Freedom

Phil Ware continues his SpiritFire series and reminds us of the ditches that can trap us on the way to freedom in grace and being led by the Spirit.

Can you avoid the deep ditches?

No Regrets

Mike Barres reminds us that it is never too late to begin pursuing God's dreams and plans and purposes for us.

It's not too late to start today!

C2K - Living Beyond the Cliché

Phil Ware continues his series on moving from Church to Kingdom and focuses on obeying the words of Jesus.

What if we really took Jesus' words seriously?

C2K - Sending Church

Phil Ware shares the principle in his Church to Kingdom series on being a sending church.

Why is it so hard to let go of our best and brightest, yet at the same it is so good to do so?

The Awful Shame of Shame

Rubel Shelly reminds us that feeling guilty isn't necessarily bad, but shame can be destructive and lead to denial or living a self-fulfilling prophecy about our badness.

When guilt is right and why shame can be destructive!

Have We Missed the Point?

Ron Rose talks about the difference between living with faith and being religious and asks if there is a difference between being a Christian and being religious.

Is there a real difference? What would you say?

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!

C2K - View from the Top

Phil Ware talks about climbing to the top of a mountain and seeing all the beauty that he never realized was there and uses this metaphor to talk about the difference between church and kingdom.

What happened with the talk about the Kingdom of God?

Dawn of the New Way: Risen!

Phil Ware shares insight on James, the brother of Jesus, and how the resurrection completely changed his life and what he believed about Jesus.

What would it have been like to be Jesus' younger brother?

You Have Always Been Drawn to Wood

Phil Ware writes a meditation on what Mary may have thought as she stood at the foot of Jesus' cross as he died, using the theme of wood in his life to connect the story.

What would Mary have thought in such painful times?

Dawn of The New Way: Lifted Up

Phil Ware shares some insight and background on James the brother of Jesus and how he disbelieved, but came to faith.

Do you think James was really there through all of this mess?

Does God Play Bingo?

Ron Rose compares God's call in our life to Bingo, and whether or not we will answer when our number is called.

What is your letter?

The Lady Who Can't Forget

Rubel Shelly talks about the woman who can't forget and reminds us of the blessing of God's forgiveness.

Is this a blessing or a curse?

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?

Remember Who You Are

Ron Rose reminds us of tough times when God's people remembered who and whose they are.

Have you forgotten the truth?