Articles Tagged 'Bear'

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.

Transparency

Paul Faulkner reminds us how desperately we need to be in a loving relationship with someone with whom we can be fully transparent.

How open are you to others who want to bless you?

What Exalts a Nation?

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in an online, DIY, worship through words and music using YouTube videos to call us to be the light-bearers of Christ Jesus to our dark world caught in a cycle of decay, destruction, and death.

As we worship, let's open our hearts to God and his call for us to be his blessing to our broken world.

Freed to Serve

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in a virtual, DIY, worship through words and music using YouTube videos to remind us how Jesus paid the price to free us from sin and adopt us into God's family so we need to serve one another with our freedom.

Jesus paid the price to free us from sin, death, and hell so we could serve others in love.

'My Child, Get Up!'

Phil Ware pauses and looks at the pain of grieving parents at the loss of a child and reminds us to forgo easy answers and cling to the stories and promises of Jesus.

Most of our earth-bound explanations are shallow and trite in the face of life's harshest realities.

Who Will Carry Us?

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead through worship in song, the Lord's Supper, a powerful message from God's word, and a blessing to enable us to worship from home or with family and friends in a meaningful way and ask this important question: Who will

Young children can fall asleep anywhere and sleep peacefully, trusting that those who love them will carry them where they need to go!

Talk Less, Hug More

Ron Rose talks about his adopted grand daughter Halle Grace and how important hugs are to her.

What's the universal language?

Beginnings in Endings: Mary Did You Know?

Phil Ware finishes the year 2012 with two powerful posts or articles about Jesus' birth and the people gathered around him, and emphasizes that God's greatest beginnings are found in hard endings.

Mary's simple life was about to come to a dramatic end!

Let's DO It!

Phil Ware looks at the last chapter of the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 7, and emphasizes Jesus' call to us to obey, put into practice, bear fruit, and do what he says.

What's got you stuck in neutral?

Why Leaders Don't Make Excuses

Rubel Shelly reminds us that the heart of leadership is not making excuses and helping others get the credit when things go right.

What, it's my fault?

Things Jesus Might Say!

Danny Sims shares some insight for us on our two week wild run on Wall Street and the up and downs of the market.

When the Dow swings nearly 1,000 points in a day, what would Jesus say?

How to Survive a Bear Attack

Phil Ware talks about bear attacks in Alaska and also how Satan attacks us and reminds us that Jesus is our assurance that we are never alone when we are attacked and he has worked to defend us.

This is no joking matter when you are in the bear's woods!

Lay Your Burden Down

Alan Smith tells a story about a man who disappeared who was very, very tired and needed to lay down his burdens; and we've got to trust we can can lay down ours at the feet of Jesus.

How long are you going to keep carrying all that luggage?

In My Next Life

Alan Smith reminds us that as tempting as it might be to be a bear, we have something much better in our future for us!

What do you want to be when ...?

Sharing Burdens

So often we don't know each well enough to even know the burdens we all carry, but we must step in and help by listening more carefully to those around us.

Do you know them enough to help?