Articles Tagged 'Cancer'

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.

More Deadly than Cancer

Bill Sherrill has a visit with a surgeon about removing malignant tissue and this experience opens his eyes about how we must treat sin in our lives.

We fool ourselves into discounting the malignant threat of sin to our souls.

A Circle of Love: Too!

Phil Ware takes us back to an old article from twenty years ago about a circle of love and a family that was sustained through tragedy and loss because of the love of friends.

When Jesus' family loves each other, even in our worst moments, we can find ourselves being carried!

Ready for Anything That Comes

Phillip Morrison reminds us of the decency, faith, and goodness of two former presidents, Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford.

Here is someone whose faith has stood the test of time and continues to display that faith in the face of great challenges.

Riders in the Storm

Phil Ware shares a much-anticipated doctor's visit that didn't go like he had anticipated and turned his life from calm into a storm of great concern.

What do we do the calm vanishes and we're caught in the storm?

The Prize

Terese Bell Kindred shares a story of a friend she admires and compares her to a prize fighter because she keeps getting up and going on after bad things and cancer.

Why keep getting up?

I Am: Handwritten Messages from Heaven - Fear

Phil Ware continues his series on I AM from the Gospel of John and focuses on Jesus' statement that he is I AM and so we should not fear.

How in the world do I obey that command?

Has It Passed?

Lisa Mikitarian reflects on the passing of her husband's kidney stone and is caught up in the pain of two more passings.

Somethings are just more difficult than others, until we have what others have to endure.

Events and Emotions

Katha Winther shares the up and downs of her emotional roller coaster in her life recently and reminds us that God is with us in the ever-changing emotions of life.

Have you ridden the roller coaster lately?

The Last Goodbye

Teresa Bell Kindred shares some good advice for those who have loved ones dealing with cancer -- this is based on her own personal experience.

What do you do when you think the end is near?

Life is Short

Patrick Odum tells about a guy who thought he had pancreatic cancer and lived it up his last year of life and then found out the cancer diagnosis was wrong.

Is your life actually going to be very short?

I Got God!

Tammy is brought to a deeper realization of just how important God's faithfulness is to her through her journey through life with her son's cancer.

Who do you have in your journey through life?

Fighting the Silent Disease

Sin, a form of spiritual cancer, can be defeated like physical cancer and this victory leaves us feeling excited and on top of the world, but we must work hard for the victory and God will help us.

Can we really find a way of escape?

Final Destinations

The plane crash in Lexington, Kentucky brought out all sorts of emotions in the hearts of people and reminds us how death touches us all and our need for the promises of Jesus.

How do you deal with such losses?

The End of One Chapter

A mother with a son who has a tumor talks about the challenges and changes she and her family have faced during his theraphy and the faithfulness of God.

How would you handle this if it were your child?

Fine!

A funeral helps a couple of ministers understand more clearly the grace of God and the power of the human spirit.

What gives us hope in the middle of crisis?

ChemoAngels

This is a story about a needed ministry to those battling cancer called ChemoAngels.

Have you seen an angel running around oncology lately?

Mission of Mercy

Jesus gave up everything for us to bring us to God; we can see that same spirit of sacrifice in the angels of mercy flights.

Can mercy still take flight today?

Spared!

Being delivered from cancer is great; being delivered from sin and death is far greater and that is God's gift to us in Jesus Christ.

Can we keep that fresh feeling of being spared?