Articles Tagged 'Conversion'

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.

Prayer and Mission

Mark Frost continues the series on discovering your mission before finding your minister with the Interim Ministry Partners team and he focuses on prayer.

So if they didn't and couldn't, how dare we?

Almost Persuaded?

Paul Faulkner reminds us that we need to decide to respond to Jesus now and honor him with our lives.

Why do we put off our commitment to truly follow Jesus?

Life to Our Mortal Bodies

James Nored and Phil Ware emphasize the importance of the Holy Spirit in our resurrection from the dead.

Jesus wasn't just raised from the dead; he is also now alive in us through the Holy Spirit!

Will I Be Jesus' Canvas and Clay?

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead through worship in song, the Lord's Supper, a powerful message from God's word, and a blessing to enable us to worship from home or with family and friends in a meaningful way and ask this important question: Can I rea

Have I truly decided to follow Jesus no matter where it may lead me? Jesus is the artist and the potter; each of us needs to be the canvas and clay where he creates a masterpiece.

How Can I Start Over with My Life?

Phil Ware and Demetrius Collins invite us to worship God and celebrate the work of the Holy Spirit as we are transformed to be more like our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ as we trust in God to give us a new fresh start in life because of Jesus!

Our message points us to 2 Corinthians 5:17 and Paul's promise that if we are in Christ, we are a new creation!

Life to Our Mortal Bodies!

James Nored and Phil Ware emphasize the importance of the Holy Spirit in our resurrection from the dead.

Jesus wasn’t just raised from the dead; he is also now alive in us through the Holy Spirit!

God's Providence? Perhaps!

Steve Higginbotham connects us with God's amazing work at getting people together and helping them live as brothers in Christ both in Bible times and today!

Is this any less amazing than Paul’s unlikely meeting with Onesimus?

Dinner at Levi's House

Phil Ware asks a bunch of troubling questions as he looks at the story of Jesus and his call of Levi and the party Levi had at his house afterwords.

They're unsettling. They're uncomfortable. They're troubling. So, we don't ask, at least not out loud!

Don't Give Up!

Don’t give up! Keep praying for those around you. Keep showing them the example of a godly life. And be ready to share your faith with them when the time is right.

It's never too late for God to touch someone's heart

What Time Is it in Your Church?

Tim Woodroof shares the final post or article in his series Change in the Life of Church, and talks about a time to be born and a time to die and asks what time is it in our church?

Can your church tell time?

The Waiting Is the Hardest Part

Phil Ware shares his heart about someone who is precious to him who needs to come to the Lord and has not yet done so.

O how our hearts ache till all our precious ones are in Jesus!

History and Mission

Mark Frost continues a series on how a church can discover its mission.

Can we really look back to find the way to move forward?

Prayer and Mission

Mark Frost continues the series on discovering your mission before finding your minister with the Interim Ministry Partners team and he focuses on prayer.

So if they didn't and couldn't, how dare we?

Remember When?

Remembering the joy of our conversion can help us to live better today

Remember when you were baptized?

The Light of Grace

Phil Ware shares the sweet prayer request from one of the translators in a predominantly Muslim nation wracked with violence and bloodshed: "Please pray for the terrorists that they know Jesus Christ like Saul who became Paul :)"

A simple reminder of grace from one in a difficult place.

So You Think You May Be Interested in Becoming a Christian

What do I have to know? What do I have to do? Then what? These are the questions you must have answered to become a Christian.

There are three questions you must have answered before becoming a Christian.

Faith and Traffic Lights

Rubel Shelly reminds us that our character and our faith are reflected as much by how we drive as how we go to church.

What does my faith have to do with how I drive?

Greater Things: Devotion

Phil Ware begins a series of messages from Acts 2 and 3 on greater things that Jesus does through his followers.

Aren't you tired of the same ol' things?

New Roofs and Jesus

The correct way to put on a new roof is to first take off the old roof. That is the same way Jesus gives us new life. Take off the old, put on the new.

What can you learn about Christianity from watching new roofs?

Catch & Release: First Importance

Phil Ware compares 1 Corinthians 15 and Romans 6 and reminds us that what saves us is Jesus' death, burial, and resurrection and we get to participate and experience these in baptism and the Lord's Supper!

Why do we make things more complicated than they need to be?

Strange Neighbors

Phil Ware talks about weird neighbors and who God has sent us to hear so we can lead them to Christ.

Why would God place us in close proximity to these people?

The Little Church That Could

Larry Davies takes the story of "The Little Engine that Could" and applies it to church.

Do you think you can?

The Question That Matters Most

Russ Lawson reminds us that the questions we ask need to be the important ones, not the kind that spark endless arguments and speculation.

What kind of questions have you been asking lately?

Almost Persuaded?

Paul Faulkner reminds us that we need to decide to respond to Jesus now and honor him with our lives.

How long can we put it off?

Healing and the New Way

Conversion is more than just a one time forgiveness, it is about learning a new way of life.

There is more to salvation than forgiveness!