Articles Tagged 'Bless' (Page 5)

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.

Promises! Promises?

James Nored and Phil Ware remind us that God keeps his promises and Jesus is the ultimate proof that God's promises can be trusted!

Is God good enough and big enough to make all of his great promises come true?

Until...

Phil Ware reminds us that The Lord's Supper is not a time to just look back, but also a time of great anticipation and eager expectation for the Lord's return.

We wait in eager expectation until we share in our reunion with Jesus in glory!

Rebellious Confusion

James Nored and Phil Ware share in thought and video several important truths about the Tower of Babel story and the human resistance to the will of God.

The story of the Tower of Babel is a reminder of the confusion that ultimately results from refusing to obey God's will.

Noah, Violence, and Grace

James Nored and Phil Ware remind us that violence is not God's plan, but humanity's corrupt and wicked propensity to injure and mar those created in the image of God.

The story of Noah fascinates children, but the message of Noah also reminds us of the Creator's heart being broken by humanity's penchant for violence.

I Doubt It: You Still Have a Lot to Offer

Phil Ware continues his 'I Doubt It' series and reminds us that Jesus not only forgives and cleanses, but he restores and calls us back to ministry.

Yes, we've all blown it at some point, yet Jesus does more than remind us we're valuable; the Lord calls us back to service!

I Doubt It: Dirty Feet & Open Hands

Phil Ware continues his series called, 'I Doubt It,' focusing this week on Jesus' tender act of washing the disciples' feet.

Learning the art of loving and sacrificial service in a room full of dirty feet.

Beautiful to Broken

James Nored and Phil Ware continue helping us find our story in God's story, this time looking at the Fall.

Why reject the goodness of God and all he has done to choose our own way?

Merry Christmas!

Phil Ware shares a Merry Christmas greeting from all of the Heartlight.org and VerseoftheDay.com family.

Our prayer is that the Lord Jesus and his abiding presence can be real to you during this special season of grace and joy.

After the Crowd Has Gone

Phil Ware reminds us that Jesus gave us a great example on how to deal with the challenges we face after a great thanksgiving feast.

Thanksgiving is over; so what do we do now as we return to the challenges of life?

Choosing to Be the 1!

Phil Ware uses the parable of the 10 lepers to remind us that we want to be the 1 who returns to give thanks even though we live in a world where most people are not very thankful!

In a world seeking to get and acquire, do we pause to give thanks for all we have?

Angels Among Us!

Brian McCutchen reminds us of the special role God has for angels in our lives.

You never know who a stranger is or the special person who is helping you out of an embarrassing mess!

Sitting Duck?

Max Lucado reminds us sometimes loneliness is an invitation from God to find his perfect love that can drive out fear and chase away our isolation and fill it with love and promise.

What if loneliness has an invitation for a great discovery about God?

To Benefit Them!

Byron Ware reminds us of the vital importance of how we communicate both in the words we choose to say, not speak, and the non-verbals we use as we speak them.

Preparing my mouth for marriage... and beyond!

Because Jesus Wants You to Be

Phillip Morrison reminds us of the most simple and basic reason of all to be baptized: Jesus wants us to be!

If Jesus was baptized and if Jesus wants you to be baptized, what's holding you back?

Proof

Phil Ware concludes his six-part series on the man with leprosy that Jesus heals (Mark 1:35-45) and how we can learn to impact the lives of others as Jesus did.

We rejoice in the grace so lavishly given us in Jesus by obeying the Lord.

TWENTY!

Phil Ware takes time to reflect on twenty years on the web and to give thanks for those who got them there and for the Lord who continues to do miracles among us.

The Lord is not finished surprising us with His grace and power if we live for His purposes.

Touch

Phil Ware continues his series on Jesus' healing the man with Leprosy in Mark 1:35-45 and focuses in this post on Jesus' touch.

Without the personal touch, full healing never comes.

Pray

Phil Ware shares his second post on Mark 1:35-45 and learning to touch the broken as Jesus touched them by learning to pray as Jesus prayed.

To touch the broken as Jesus did, I must learn to pray as Jesus prayed!

The Baby Changed Everything

Rubel Shelly tells a story about Tommy Luck and the baby that transformed a rough mining town and then reminds us Jesus did the same thing with the world.

How does something like this happen?

Getting Our Lives on Track

Bill Sherrill reminds us that life is full of ups and downs, good things and bad, so we need to find the good and not the bad.

Life is full of ups and downs, but God goes with us through it all!

Golden Rule, Golden Door!

Phillip Morrison reminds us of the need to be open-hearted to the refugee crisis both as Americans and as Christians and to see this as a moral imperative.

Some connections God makes inescapable no matter how costly obedience may be!

When the Way Out Is Through

Phil Ware begins a series called Saved at Sea which focuses on God's deliverance and truth found in the stories about the sea and rivers and water in the Bible.

What do we do in the middle of our challenges and problems with no plan in sight?

Art by Faith

Tammy Ruggles is a legally blind artist, photographer, and writer who paints by faith and not by sight and uses her gifts to bless and inspire.

How can someone who is blind still paint beautifully?

Finding Happiness?

Teresa Bell Kindred reminds us that what we define as happiness is nearly always temporary pleasure that is soon gone and leaves us unhappy; happiness is really on our own shoulders.

Are we looking in the right places to find happiness for ourselves?

Fifty Shades of Grace: Delight

Phil Ware continues his series of posts and articles called Fifty Shades of Grace and focuses on the gift of pleasure, delight, joy, fulfillment, and blessing in sexual intimacy for the Christian married couple.

So we are really supposed to delight in this?