Articles Tagged 'Claim'

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.

Resurrection 2.2: Sometimes, I Doubt!

Phil Ware continues his series on Resurrection 2.0 focusing this week on the doubts of early disciples, and our times of doubting sometimes in our world.

Do doubts mean I don’t believe?

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.

I Doubt It: Jesus Is Risen from the Dead

Phil Ware continues his series called 'I Doubt It' and focuses this week on Jesus having risen from death to never die again.

Jesus is risen, and we believe because the first disciples had their doubts!

He Holds Us in His Hand

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in a virtual, DIY, worship through words and music using YouTube videos to open our hearts to God's promise to us as his people, Jesus' church, to walk with us, protect us, and lead us into the future.

God claims us as his beloved children. He has sacrificed for us to show us his love, and he promises to walk with us into the future.

Resurrection 2.2: Sometimes, I Doubt!

Phil Ware continues his series on Resurrection 2.0 focusing this week on the doubts of early disciples, and our times of doubting sometimes in our world.

Do doubts mean I don’t believe?

I Doubt It: Jesus Is Risen from the Dead

Phil Ware continues his series called 'I Doubt It' and focuses this week on Jesus having risen from death to never die again.

Jesus is risen, and we believe because the first disciples had their doubts!

A Good Ending

Tom Norvell reminds us that as far as failure goes, Peter pretty much leads the way, but he also leads the way in turnarounds and being called back to significant ministry.

We don't have to live in the mess of our mess up!

Too Familiar to Feel the Bite?

Phil Ware continues his series on the way God values women and expresses this in Scripture and also against the grain of culture.

Sometimes we miss the truth because we are too familiar with what we think we know!

This Treasure Is up for Grabs

Ron Rose writes about the good things he used to find in the garbage dump and how there are special surprises and treasures that he found along the way and how we can do the same thing with people if we are willing to get messy.

Treasure among all the garbage?

Shattered

Phil Ware talks about what to do when relationships are shattered and how it feels easier to trade in those relationships for new ones, but asks if this is really smartest and if it honors Christ and our walk with God.

What do you do when things fracture between you and someone important to you?

I AM: The Way

Phil Ware finishes his series on the I AM sayings of Jesus with the focus on the way, the truth and the light.

So how do we get to what really matters?

Greater Things: Presence

Phil Ware continues his series on greater things focusing on 'the name of the Lord' and the power and presence of Jesus that fed the expectation that God would surprise his people with greater things.

Where are our greater things?

A Dry Time

Tom Norvell talks about a spiritually dry time, when there seems to be a void in our souls and spiritual life seems difficult and he reminds us of the woman at the well in John 4 and how Jesus gave her much more than water and how she shared this water wi

Who around you needs more than just a drink?

Tell Them How Much!

Phil Ware begins his series on God's Riches for Us at the Table of the Lord and reminds us that we are called to share with those close to us what the Lord has done for us.

So what do we do now that we've left the table?

Incarnational?

Phil Ware continues his LifeWORDS series and shares Jesus' Great Commission as a call to incarnational ministry and not just evangelism.

Surely Jesus is talking about something other than evangelism?

Go to My Brothers and Tell Them

Phil Ware shares insights into Jesus' appearance to Mary Magdalene and how he commissioned her to go declare his resurrection to his followers.

Who was the first apostle to the apostles?

Reclaiming Our Lost Identity

Remembering the past by way of dogtags is hard, but sometimes liberating and a reminder that God can take our past and make something special out of it.

What does God do with those times in our lives we'd like to forget?

Promises, Disclaimers, and Warnings

God's disclaimers are much better than those on medicine bottles!

When is a disclaimer good news?

Damaged and Discarded

We can reclaim those who have been discarded and reclaim them for God.

Can you find value in what has been discarded?

The Old Clock

Too many people are put on the back shelf of life and we need to find them and reclaim them just as Baranabas once did.

What lesson can an old abandoned clock teach us?