Articles Tagged 'Dwi'

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 Hands that Helped Formed Me

by Melissa Troyer · Psalm 139:13-16 · Birth

Melissa Troyer shares the challenging and agonizing and glorious moments of giving birth through several difficult deliveries and remembers all the key people who have formed her into the woman she has become.

It's not in my most mountain top moments, but in the desolate, agonizing ones of inability where I've found that infilling.

Sharing Our Cup of Gratitude

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · Colossians 3:16 · Gratitude

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in online worship through words and music, using YouTube videos to lead us to sing with hearts full of gratitude for all that God has done for us in Jesus.

We want to be a people who sing to God out of hearts full of gratitude because of our riches in Christ Jesus!

Let's Keep Singing!

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · Psalm 95:1-2 · Singing

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in online worship through words and music using YouTube videos inviting us to rejoice and sing to the LORD with joy and thanksgiving.

Songs enable us to speak to God from all the different tangents, orbits, pressures, situations, and experiences in our lives.

Using Our Freedom Redemptively

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · 1 Peter 2:15-16 · Freedom

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in an online worship through words and music using YouTube videos to remind us we are free in Christ from bondage to sin, death, satan, hell, purposelessness, loneliness, so we can use our freedom to serve and liber

In our broken world where people say and do hostile things against us, we choose to use our freedom to serve them in love.

Bringing All Things Together in Christ

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · Ephesians 1:9-10

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in an online worship through words and music using YouTube videos to help us understand and connect emotionally with God's mystery to bring things together in Christ.

Our hope, our answer, and God's unveiling of his greatest mysteries are found in Jesus, the Messiah, Son of God, the Christ who is our Savior and Lord!

God's Great Gift to Us!

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · Ephesians 2:1-10 · Grace

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in an online, virtual worship through words and music using YouTube videos to remind us and help us celebrate and live in appreciation to the grace of God.

Let's live out God's gift of grace by celebrating God's goodness, loving Jesus, and obeying what the Lord taught as we love, serve, and treat others as our Savior did!

Having a Fitting Reply

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · Proverbs 15:23 · Encourage

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in online, virtual worship through words and music using YouTube videos to help us understand how to give fitting replies to others in different conversation contexts.

Let's worship today, praising God and asking for the help of the Holy Spirit as we seek to respond to people as Jesus did!

Aligning Our Interior and Exterior Worlds

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · Psalm 19:14 · Achievement · Align

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in an online, virtual worship through words and music using YouTube videos to call us to align our internal feelings of love for God with our external daily lives that should be lived as our worship of God.

David concludes Psalm 19 with a prayer that his interior and exterior worlds align with the character of God and bring the LORD pleasure!

What It Means to Follow

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · Deuteronomy 13:4

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in online, virtual worship through words and music using YouTube videos to help us understand, celebrate, commit, and confess what it means to follow Jesus.

When Peter, Andrew, James, and John accepted Jesus' call to follow him, everything changed for them!

A Heart for God's People

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · Philippians 2:3-4 · Servant

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in online virtual worship through words and music using YouTube videos to call us to have a heart for God's people and to serve them in love.

Status-seeking and a lust for superiority and power over others cannot be part of the Jesus lifestyle!

I Will Lift My Eyes

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · Psalm 121:1-2 · Help

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in an online, worship through words and music using YouTube videos to lift our eyes to the LORD and receive our strength, hope, and encouragement from him.

Despite many warnings from the prophets, Israel began felt entitled because they were God's PEOPLE, in God's PLACE, by God's POWER.

Night Songs

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · Psalm 42:8 · Presence

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in an online, worship through words and music using YouTube videos to invite God to permeate every moment of every day, including having our hearts tuned to God with night songs.

God wants us to live our lives to the full, inviting him to permeate each moment of each day, including our sleep time!

Children of God!

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · John 1:12-13

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in an online, worship through words and music using YouTube videos to celebrate and focus upon what it means to be a child of God who can approach Jesus as an older brother and God as Abba Father.

Jesus came to earth, lived as one of us, and died a horrible death of shame and humiliation on the cross so we could be in his family.

The Heavens Declare

by Phil Ware · Psalm 19:1-2

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in a full online DIY worship through words and music using YouTube videos to

How will people who do know about the Bible find out about the God who created them and who yearns for a relationship with them?

He is My Mighty Rock, My Refuge

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · Psalm 62:7 · Role model · Rock

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in a virtual, DIY, worship through words and music using YouTube videos to remind us that God is our stronghold, foundation, certainty, refuge, strength and assurance.

We celebrate that God is our salvation, our stronghold, our refuge, our one certainty in the middle of all that is unsure!

Destroying Worldly Strongholds

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · 2 Corinthians 10:3-5 · Leadership

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in a virtual, DIY, worship through words and music using YouTube videos to call us to recognize Jesus' example of being a servant and how we must resist worldly standards for our leaders in the Lord's church.

Our model, our hero, our example of great leadership, must always be Jesus!

Here, Near, and Far

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · Acts 1:9 · Great Commission

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in a virtual, DIY, worship through words and music using YouTube videos to call us to recognize God's call to mission for us as we seek to be God with Skin On to people here, near, and far.

God loves all the people of the world (John 3:16) and wants us to demonstrate his love for them so they will turn from their destructive ways and be saved (2 Peter 3:9).

Short-Circuiting My Angry Words

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · James 1:19-21 · Speech · Anger

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in a virtual, DIY, worship through words and music using YouTube videos to praise God for his holiness and grace and call each other to use our lives, our speech, and our actions to bless others.

God's holiness and grace call us to live our lives to bless others with what we do and what we say.

Inviting Jesus to Come Alive in Us

by Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware · 2 Corinthians 3:17-18 · Christlikeness

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware share a DIY worship plan with a message, songs, and other resources in YouTuube video format and including a communion devotional by Rubel Shelly.

God bless us all as we seek to let the grace of Jesus shine through us and touch those around us.

Tuna Salad and the Rest of the Story

by Philip Gulley · 1 Corinthians 13 · Kindness

Philip Gulley talks about going to the house of a friend in Chicago he calls Paul Jr. and ends up having lunch with Paul Harvey and reminds us that most famous people are nicer than we might think because they know they didn't get to the top, on their own

Most of them are wonderful human beings because someone gave them a leg up somewhere along the line, and they remember that. At least the good ones do.

New Year with New Hope

by Phil Ware · 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 · Prayer

Phil Ware explains the unified, simultaneous, hour of prayer on January 1 and December 31 as all the time zones gather together to pray.

Imagine if we all came together at the same time and prayed for God to intervene and help us overcome our world's problems!

Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

by Tim Woodroof · 2 Corinthians 3:16-18 · Culture

Tim Woodroof of Interim Ministry Partners shares the introductory article on changes facing the church today and comparing it to the early church we find in the book of Acts.

Do you feel as if our world has completely changed in its attitude toward faith?

Forgiveness

by Phillip Morrison · Luke 23:34

Phillip Morrison talks about the greatest Christmas gift of all, the gift of forgiveness.

Why would they let the person responsible for their son's death off the hook?

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