Articles Tagged 'Crucial'

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 Women

Phil Ware continues his series on the importance of women to God and to the early church and focuses on the "The Women" Luke refers to as standing by Jesus in his Passion, crucifixion, burial, resurrection, and pouring out the Spirit at Pentecost and how

Who stood by Jesus while all his apostles failed him?

One Tune!

Phil Ware uses Jesus' example in Mark 1 to show how we can begin to deal with our feelings of being overwhelmed with everything confronting us and do the most important thing, the One Tune God wants us to play with our lives.

How can we learn God's will for this time in our lives?

Bureaucratic Encumbrance

Rubel Shelly uses General Motors before reorganization and the New York Times article to help remind us that we can be full of so many processes, procedures, rules, and traditions that we lose the main objective -- if everything is important, then nothing

What happens when process becomes more important than mission?

I've Got Nothing!

Tom Norvell reminds us to listen to God when we feel like we have nothing to offer, and if we do, we will realize that is enough.

What do you do when you don't feel like you have anything to offer?

Sweat the Small Stuff: It's the Big Stuff

Ann Voskamp looks a couple of small things important in the life of kitchen appliances and pots and reminds us that it's the small stuff that counts.

So when did small get to be so big?

Distracted by Many Preparations

It is so easy to get distracted by a lot of good things instead of focusing on Jesus, just as Martha and Mary showed us.

What takes your gaze away from Jesus?