Articles Tagged 'Broken'

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.

A Charcoal Fire & the Smell of Redemption

Phil Ware continues his Saved at Sea series focusing on Peter's denials, his promises, his arrogance, his failure, and his restoration.

Why make someone relive his or her sin, why not just ignore it?

Kicked to the Curb? Good!

Ron Rose talks about how everything he and Lyn set out by the curb was reclaimed and reused by someone else, which is what God has done with us when we have been broken and discarded.

Holy ground — without brokenness, there would be no healing or hope or grace. So, thank you, Abba, for reserving a place for us, just for us, at the curb with you.

What Is Core: Believing

Phil Ware begins a series of messages on what is core, or what is at the heart of what we must believe and do to be true disciples of Jesus, today.

What is most important for us to believe and do as disciples of Jesus, today?

The Misunderstanding

Phil Ware shares his third post on The Question, Peter's confession of Jesus and how he had to be broken before he could really understand what his confession meant.

Without understanding the cross, we turn Christianity into another human contest about self-importance.

A Charcoal Fire & the Smell of Redemption

Phil Ware continues his Saved at Sea series focusing on Peter's denials, his promises, his arrogance, his failure, and his restoration.

Why make someone relive his or her sin, why not just ignore it?

What Is Core: Believing

Phil Ware begins a series of messages on what is core, or what is at the heart of what we must believe and do to be true disciples of Jesus, today.

What is most important for us to believe and do as disciples of Jesus, today?

Comfort in any Season

Phil Ware talks about 2 Corinthians 1:3-4 and comforting others with the comfort we have received when we went through the season of mourning, grief, and pain.

How does God use us to comfort other?

Using Our Freedom Redemptively

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in an online worship through words and music using YouTube videos to remind us we are free in Christ from bondage to sin, death, satan, hell, purposelessness, loneliness, so we can use our freedom to serve and liber

In our broken world where people say and do hostile things against us, we choose to use our freedom to serve them in love.

Something Simple, Something Glorious

Phil Ware reminds us that though the bread and wine of this meal are simple, so were Jesus' words to Jairus' daughter, and those words changed everything.

Don't be fooled by the simplicity of this meal, but be reminded that Jesus makes simple things glorious!

Adam 2.0

Phil Ware leads us in exploratory devotional thoughts about the first and second Adams and what they mean to us and that Jesus came as Adam 2.0 to bring us a better future and life eternal with and like Jesus.

When Luke wrote his good news story about Jesus, he wants us to know that as much as we may resent and resemble Adam 1.0, the Holy Spirit is transforming us into Adam 2.0!

Peace in This World?

Melissa Troyer reminds us that our world is broken and full of chaos, but we can find peace in this world in Jesus.

We were not created for war, fighting, and death. No wonder our souls gasp for justice and a peaceful community.

Real Love Involves Loving Actions

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in a virtual, DIY, worship through words and music using YouTube videos to call us into the mission Jesus gave us to be his bodily presence sent into the world just as the Father sent him.

Jesus reminds us that real love involves our tangible demonstration of that love in acts of kindness, help, and service.

Willing 2-B-Crucibled

Ron Rose reminds us that true faith has to go through the B-crucible to be real and lasting.

Ever notice that the most challenging madness happens right on the border of the Promised Land?

Finding Jesus' Heart for Ministry: Look

Phil Ware leads us deep into the heart of Jesus for ministry as he looks at Jesus' actions and emotions in Mark 1:35-45, today focusing on how Jesus looked at the situation and into the heart of man with leprosy.

Take a look at what Jesus did and feel the call to look and see people as Jesus did!

Finding Jesus' Heart for Ministry: Prayer

Phil Ware looks at Mark 1:35-45 and learning how to touch the broken as Jesus touched them by learning to pray as Jesus

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

Hard Work and Holy Listening

Melissa Troyer comes to us again through the ordinariness of daily life and reminds us to listen for Jesus' presence and look for ways to be conduits of God's love.

Instead of a well-manicured life, and perfectly organized and aesthetic home, my heart is yearning for more connection with love... His love... and, to be part of His loving presence.

Waiting in Expectation

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in a virtual, DIY, worship through words and music using YouTube videos to remind us of God's greatness and Jesus' promise to take us home to the Father and reveal us as God's adopted children and heal our broken wo

We trust in Jesus' promise to return in victory for us and bring God's new heaven and new earth.

Run Away Like Jonah Days

Melissa Troyer is having one of those days where you want to run away and hide and yet has a young child that demands attention, driving Melissa back into the strength of God!

Perhaps the biggest gift of

Where to Reach

Melissa Troyer reminds us of those mistakes made by our little ones when they are in their early exploration modes and how our job is not to load them down with rules but to show them where to reach.

I knew the picture looked different zoomed out.

Beyond Chapter and Verse

Jordan Harrell and Phil Ware invite to come celebrate at the table of grace our Father longs for us to share and not get hung up on chapter and verse prooftexting religion.

Have we missed the joy of our Father and the party he longs to throw for all of us who love him and give up all to follow Jesus?

Heartbroken!

Phil Ware reminds us that God shares our pain in our worst moments of grief and loss, God is heartbroken with us.

In the middle of our grief, loss, and brokenness, we must remember that we are not alone in our brokenness.

The Way of Jesus #2: Unsettling the Religious Status Quo

James Nored and Phil Ware remind us of the deadly consequences of a religion that forgets the love of God for broken people and the mission Jesus has for us to the lost world and helped define the way of Jesus through the cross to the empty tomb.

We must always remember that God's love for broken people and our call to his mission must matter most.

Overcoming the Greater Pandemic: Finder and Mender

James Nored in video and Phil Ware with words reminds us that God is the finder and mender of lost and broken things and lost and broken people.

God's people have been in lost places before our time. They made it safely through their wilderness to better times and better places.

What Is Core: Believing

Phil Ware begins a series of messages on what is core, or what is at the heart of what we must believe and do to be true disciples of Jesus, today.

What is most important for us to believe and do as disciples of Jesus, today?

Beyond Religious Places, Practices, and Rituals

James Nored and Phil Ware remind us of the deadly consequences of a religion that forgets the love of God for broken people and mission Jesus has for us to the lost world.

We must always remember that God's love for broken people and our call to his mission must matter most.