Articles Tagged 'Disaster'

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.

What Is Core: Believing

Phil Ware begins a series of messages on what is core, or what is at the heart of what we must believe and do to be true disciples of Jesus, today.

What is most important for us to believe and do as disciples of Jesus, today?

What Is Core: Believing

Phil Ware begins a series of messages on what is core, or what is at the heart of what we must believe and do to be true disciples of Jesus, today.

What is most important for us to believe and do as disciples of Jesus, today?

What Jesus Can't Do!

Phil Ware looks at Mark 6:1-6 and reminds us that this story is for us because we are Jesus' family, relatives, and hometown!

Why did Mark include it in his gospel? After all, his gospel is the shortest and most compact story of Jesus among the four gospels!

What Is Core: Believing

Phil Ware begins a series of messages on what is core, or what is at the heart of what we must believe and do to be true disciples of Jesus, today.

What is most important for us to believe and do as disciples of Jesus, today?

Beyond Trite Slogans to Real Help

Phil Ware writes about Romans 8:22-29, the bondage to decay that our world faces, our own troubles and hardships, and slogans that we often use and abuse to try to encourage people who are grieving, wounded, or hurt.

How can we say these things and really mean them when trying to help those who hurt?

What Jesus Can't Do!

Phil Ware looks at Mark 6:1-6 and reminds us that this story is for us because we are Jesus' family, relatives, and hometown!

Why did Mark include it in his gospel? After all, his gospel is the shortest and most compact story of Jesus among the four gospels!

Jesus Smiled

Phil Ware reminds us of John Mark's failure when he deserted the mission field and the mission team and describes how God used this mess and the grace, mercy, and love of godly men to bring great good out of potential disaster.

Our God is the God of surprising opportunities, fresh hope, and new life.

When Storms Come

Max Lucado shares words of encouragement and hope as hurricane Florence comes ashore.

Could you use some hope in the aftermath of this storm, and in other choppy seas you may be facing?

Knowing the People Makes the Difference

Who do you know that needs your prayers and your help? What else can you do to help them because knowing the people makes the difference!

It's all about who you know

Hope, Healing, and Help

Phil Ware continues his posts on how to help with the disasters currently plaguing the United States.

With so many struggling, each of us has an opportunity to step up and make a difference in the lives of those in deep need!

What Happened?

James Nored and Phil Ware remind us that human sin and rebellion have left our world a broken mess, not the world God intended for us.

Why do death, disease, disasters, and devilish influences steer our world, our humanity, into such mess?

What in the World Is Going On?

Jesus has overcome the world. He is the way through disaster, death, pain, and evil.

Every day the news is filled with tragedy. How are we supposed to survive?

The Real Root of Brokenness

Ann Voskamp reminds us again of the incredible importance of giving thanks.

We must not dare forget to give thanks for how we're blessed and how great the Father is!

Darkness

Phil Ware reminds us that darkness is the place where God can meet us, redeem us, deliver us, and save us from death and disaster.

Am I alone in my darkest hours?

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?

It's a Time to Help, not just Talk

Phil Ware offers some practical and important advice on what to do to help in the devastation caused by tornadoes.

What can we do?

It Was an Earthquake

My earthquake happened without warning and it helped me see what was important to remember about the earthquakes of life.

It actually bounced me off my seat.. So what did I learn about life from an earthquake?

There Will Be another Tragedy

There will be another tragedy somewhere today. Christians overcome our tragedies because of what we believe about this world.

What does a Christian believe in the face of one tragedy after another?

What is Core: Jesus

Phil Ware begins a series of messages on what is core, or what is at the heart of what we must believe?

What is most important?

Will this be 'Lucky 13'?

Rubel Shelly writes about the New Year, 2013, and talks about what the year will bring and also about being superstitious.

So are you superstitious, or only a little stitious?

Unshakeable: 10 Years Revisited

Phil Ware revisits and reflects on 9/11 ten years later.

Looking back, what is there that is unshakeable?

Finding Help When Devastation Hits

Rick Brown reminds us that community, church, family, can make a huge difference in our lives when devastation hits.

What does this have to do with Phil Campbell

Dog Bites and Life

Life is hard, and the terrible things in this world sometimes happen when we least expect. How do we cope?

How do you survive when life takes a bite out of you?

The National Debt

Rubel Shelly is talking about money and debt and solutions to it at a national and personal level.

How did we get into this mess?

Each Has a Name

Phil Ware talks about our broken world, spring, the tsunami and earthquakes in Japan, and the Lord's prayer.

Let's begin somewhere, doing something, and not just talk about it!