Articles Tagged 'Christ' (Page 9)

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.

The Memory Tree

Holidays are a time for remembering family events and remembering what God did for us by sending His Son.

What are your favorite memories of Thanksgiving and Christmas?

Christ: The Center

Phil Ware reminds us that Jesus is the center of everything, our salvation, our time, our hope, but will we make Jesus the center of our lives?

Are we really willing to make Jesus the center of our life.

Thunder and Lightning

He was called Basil the Great. Bishop of Caesarea in the fourth century, he was a staunch defender of the idea of the Trinity. He stood his ground against all opponents, even when the Emperor tried to exile him for his beliefs. Basil may have been bett

Does your life back up your words?

Nativity Set

If we are willing, we can find Jesus in the most down to earth of places.

You can find Christmas in the most surprising of places!

Holiday Trifecta

So as the schedules, demands and pressures of the Holiday Trifecta invade your world, house and family, allow me to offer a short blessing to you and all whom you hold dear

Putting the most into the holidays

How to Discredit Christianity

Rubel Shelly reminds us that wild predictions about Jesus' return on specific dates often are used by sceptics to discredit Christianity.

Want to know how to make unbelievers disbelieve even more?

Some Mountains Matter More

Phil Ware continues his series on knowing the mountains on which we are willing to die -- both doctrinal and missional mountains of significance.

So how do we know our mountains of greatest importance?

Center

Phil Ware reminds of the Bible's repeated call to make the LORD the center of our lives and our focus and how Jesus must be that for us if we dare call ourselves Christians.

My eyes are on Him!

Through the Keyhole of Grace

Phil Ware compares Jesus to a keyhole through which we look at God and the closer we get to Jesus the more clearly we see God.

What can we learn about God by looking at Jesus?

Trophies

I know that just as my childhood trophies have lost their value to me, I'll one day look at all the things that seem so important to me now and see that they are like trash compared to knowing Christ. On that day, I'll lay my trophies down and receive wha

Are you ready to lay down your trophies?

Defying ISIS: #togESTHER

Ann Voskamp on going to Iraq and meeting with those who have lost so much to ISIS and she calls us to wake up and do something

What we can do to help!

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?

Born of the Spirit

Phil Ware continues his series on the Holy Spirit with a focus on being born of the Spirit and its ties to faith, baptism, and repentance.

Without the Holy Spirit, how can there be new life?

Finding Jesus: Experiencing Jesus as Immanuel

Phil Ware brings to close his series on experiencing the presence of Jesus in our lives.

Are we wiling to open up the door and invite him in?

The Parable of the Birds

Phillip Morrison talks about the incarnation of God in human flesh in Jesus and the parable of the birds to explain why God had to do it.

This white Christmas revels more than a snowman.

Good News for Christmas

Rick Brown writes a beautiful story on the background of Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer and a reminder that Jesus came for all of us misfits so we could know we fit in.

In the dark night of the soul or caught in the foggy haze of confusion, is there good news for me?

The Reason

Centuries ago, in a small unimportant town, our salvation began with a baby's cry. We continue to search and hope for: Peace, goodwill toward men.

The season has a reason

Christmas is about...

Rubel Shelly reminds us of the real reason for the season and that we must not forget Jesus in all the holiday trappings and mess and reindeer and Santa.

So what is supposed to be going on here, anyway?

The Gift We Really Need

Cathy Messecar reminds us what we need most at Christmas and that only God can give us what humanity and our broken world cannot give.

So watcha asking for this Christmas?

Baby Jesus Grew Up... and then He Died

The Christmas message is not just that God's Son was born. It is that the baby grew up to die and save us from our sins.

The real message of Christmas is not baby Jesus.

Finding Jesus: Be Born in Me!

Phil Ware writes a two part series on Finding Jesus at Christmas and this one focuses on spending time with Jesus in the Gospels.

Can I really know Jesus as someone who is real in my life?

What's Most Important?

Tom Norvell reminds us about our life's purpose, mission, goal, target and what gives our lives meaning and significance and eternal life.

So how do I find out this key to life?

Act(s) 1: Scene 1 — Jesus' Body

Mark Frost of Interim Ministry Partners shares insight on viewing the church through the lens of Acts and focuses today on the church being the living, breathing, embodiment or incarnation of Jesus to the world.

If we listen to Acts like a play, what do we learn in each scene?

Co-heirs with Christ

Phil Ware continues his series on the way God values a woman and how Pentecost begins a new humanity that is to work itself out in the life of Jesus' people, the church.

Paul blows away the confusion and declares us all equally heirs of God's promise!

Interconnected Grace

Phil Ware challenges us to think about the small blue planet we find ourselves on and how are we going to interconnect it with grace.

Far from isolationism, we are called to