Articles Tagged 'Egypt'

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.

Geshem: The Water of Heaven

Dr. Lois Tverberg talks about 'geshem' or water, and how God set up Israel to need God to supply their water and make them strong, not their location or their efforts or their wisdom!

When God chose a land for his people, he didn't choose a place where they could have security because of their own efforts, he chose a land where they would be far more dependent on him!

In Way Over Our Heads!

James Nored and Phil Ware remind us that God's great stories of deliverance, like the Exodus with Moses leading God's people to victory over Egypt and Pharaoh, are reminders of Jesus' greater deliverance and God's faithfulness.

God has you in a great position to see his deliverance and make your life an enduring testimony when you face trials with endurance and faithfulness.

Not Molded by Our Circumstances!

James Nored and Phil Ware remind us of Joseph's story and how God works in our lives to bless people if we are faithful, have character, and share compassion no matter our circumstance.

We can change our world for the better rather than having our values eroded by our circumstances!

Dry Pine Needles and Cold, Dusty Attics

Phil Ware reminds us that as we clean up from Christmas and New Year, the mess left after the holidays should remind us of the hard times Jesus and his family faced after his birth.

Jesus' real-to-life circumstances, along with his dangerous predicaments caused by his divine reality, are comforting to me.

Who Is Really God?

James Nored and Phil Ware look at Moses' showdown with Pharaoh to remind us that this was really a showdown to show who was truly God and our need to choose to follow him.

Moses wanted Pharaoh and the Egyptians to see that only Israel's God was truly God. Anything in addition to God was less.

In Over Our Head

James Nored and Phil Ware remind us that God's great stories of deliverance, like the Exodus with Moses leading God's people to victory over Egypt and Pharaoh, are reminders of Jesus' greater deliverance and God's faithfulness.

God has you in a position to see his great work and make your life an enduring testimony of faithfulness in the face of struggle and victory in the face of defeat.

When Life is Unfair!

James Nored and Phil Ware remind us of the importance of God's past stories of deliverance to help us know how to live in our times of unfairness and hold onto to hope in the middle of oppression.

God’s great story of redemption reminds us of three truths that we must take with us as we live in a world that always seems to tilt away from fairness.

A Labor of Love

Phil Ware shares some thoughts on what incarnation means as the collision of mortality and eternal, God in human flesh.

Jesus' birth was the collision of the gloriously divine and mundanely human. It was God entering our world through the birth canal of a woman.

The Story of Our Savior's Birth

Jesus' birth stories from Matthew and Luke are shared in straight Scripture from The Voice Bible.

Sometimes we just need to hear the familiar story told simply with fresh words.

Hank and the Mop Bucket

Max Lucado reminds us that God is not finished with us yet and still speaks to us.

Changing direction in life is not tragic. Losing passion in life is.

Help?

Phil Ware reminds us to care actively for those suffering violence in the Muslim Spring that has now turned into the violent summer.

Do we notice or care?

We Are really Going Home

Phillip Morrison continues his encouraging words with an especially relevant piece on Egypt and going home.

Egypt is back in the news, so what does that have to do with going home?

Superman and Jesus?

Rubel Shelly comments and describes the difference between Superman and Jesus.

Is there a link between our desire for Superman and our need for Jesus?

Pessimism: Its Mistaken Perspective

Rubel Shelly deals with the seemingly unending pessimism in human ways.

What is there to gain by pessimism in any of its disguises?

Turning our Hearts Back to Egypt?

Sometimes we find ourselves unhappy with where we are and look back to the good ol' days just like Israel did in turning their hearts back to Egypt.

Are you looking back or straining to what's ahead?