Articles Tagged 'Experience'

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.

Sighing for Home

Phil Ware continues his thoughts on the Immanuel passages in Matthew and challenges us to not settle for less than an experience of God -- Father, Son or Holy Spirit -- and not simply religious experience.

How do we deal with the longing?

God Put His SIGnature on You!

Phil Ware reminds us that we are all God's gifted children and that God has put his signature on each of us in three different ways.

Can you see God's signature on his masterpiece?

Learning to Hear and Experience Jesus

Phil Ware shares how we can experience Jesus in our lives based on Jesus' promises and Matthew's story of Jesus in his Gospel.

We all need to discover that Jesus is not just alive and interceding for us at the right hand of God, but he is also present with us now as our resurrected Lord, Savior, and friend.

The Lord is Near

Phil Ware reminds us that in our darkest times the Lord, our good Shepherd, wants to be near us and make his presence known to us.

The Lord longs to be near us when we feel most alone, especially in our last journey through the valley of shadows.

The Spirit Opens Our Eyes to Truth

Ron Rose reminds us that without the Holy Spirit alive in us, we have no guide to help us understand the Scriptures, much less God or Jesus or the holy plans and promises for us!

"I remember when that knowledge really hit me for the first time... that to get the whole truth, you have to have the Holy Spirit.'

Finding Jesus: Experiencing Immanuel

Phil Ware shares a summary of Matthew's Immanuel sayings focused on experiencing Jesus today.

Do we feel like we have to keep up some kind of smokescreen so others won't know about our own times of emptiness and longing?

On the Life and Passing of Anthony Bourdain

Grant Rampy talks about once coveting the fame, fast life, riches, travel, experiences, and accomplishments of Anthony Bordain until realizing what he chased ended up empty and alone.

I am more grateful than ever for my comparably simple station, one that allows me both quiet time at home and the opportunity to travel — to enjoy both friends and strangers.

Finding Jesus: Experiencing Immanuel

Phil Ware shares a summary of Matthew's Immanuel sayings focused on experiencing Jesus today.

Do we feel like we have to keep up some kind of smokescreen so others won't know about our own times of emptiness and longing?

Called to Holiness, Not Passing Judgment

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 greatness and to living a life of holiness that refuses to judge others in Christ over non-essential practices.

Can we really pursue obedience and have a deep passion for holiness and still welcome people who practice their faith differently than we do?

God Made Known to Us

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in a virtual, DIY, worship through words and music using YouTube videos to remind us of God's presence to be in us and real to us and reveal his love in us.

God promises to be with us and in us so that we can experience his love for us!

Through the Keyhole of Grace

Phil Ware compares Jesus to a keyhole through which we look at God and the closer we get to Jesus the more clearly we see God and gives us a reading plan to discover more!

What can we learn about God by looking at Jesus?

Because You Know!

Jordan Harrell reminds us to not listen to the lies of Satan but instead remember who God is, what God has done, and what we know of God, and trust God's voice and not the lies of our circumstances, problems, pandemics, or hopelessness.

God says: 'There is no race too long, no wall too high, no gap too wide, no shattered thing too broken to strip you of my HOPE.'

Finding Jesus: Reaching for God, Not Substitutes

Phil Ware continues his series of posts on the Immanuel Project, the way Jesus promised we could know and experience God.

Where can we go to experience God and fill the hole inside of us?

Finding Jesus: Experiencing Immanuel

Phil Ware shares a summary of Matthew's Immanuel sayings focused on experiencing Jesus today.

Do we feel like we have to keep up some kind of smokescreen so others won't know about our own times of emptiness and longing?

Finding Jesus!

Phil Ware shares a message he has shared privately many times about how to experience Jesus, how for Jesus to be real in our lives, each day.

How do we get started on rebuilding our relationship with Jesus, a relationship He yearns to have with us?

Time to Stop the Whine

Phil Ware writes to encourage and challenge our older generations to live with passion and faith so the younger generations can experience the presence of God.

We can expect God to show up if we will invite future generations to experience his power and presence with us!

Experiencing God on Our Journey of Faith

James Nored and Phil Ware challenge us to be open to God's work in our lives while we continue on our journey of faith.

No matter how comfortable we feel we are with God, a genuine relationship with the Almighty goes far beyond a few religious rituals, like making time for him at Christmas and Easter.

The Lord is Near

Phil Ware reminds us that in our darkest times the Lord, our good Shepherd, wants to be near us and make his presence known to us.

The Lord longs to be near us when we feel most alone, especially in our last journey through the valley of shadows.

Teach Us to Pray #3: Together Experience

Phil Ware, with the help of Grady King, reminds us that prayer is a together experience in much of experience and God calls us to share this experience together, then Grady King gives us some added insight and an exercise to help us through the next week.

When Jesus taught on prayer in the Sermon on the Mount, he shifted from individual prayer in private to prayer shared with others

Teach Us to Pray #1: Devotion

Phil Ware continues his series on prayer this week, focused on the early church's devotion to prayer that they learned from Jesus.

When Luke summarized the heart of the early church, he chose to highlight one particular word —

Just for You!

Max Lucado reminds us that God made all of creation just for each one of us as the crown of his creation.

If you were the only one who existed.

Now What?

Now that Easter has passed, what are we going to do with Jesus? How about spending time with him in the gospel of John so we can know him for ourselves?

Easter is over, so

Always!

Phil Ware reminds us of the Lord's nearness, four ways we can experience that nearness, but most importantly, he reminds us to seek the Lord's presence in our lives, always.

How can we deepen, strengthen, and become more aware of our Lord's constant and loving presence?

Knowing Jesus

Phil Ware reminds us that there is simply no substitute for truly knowing Jesus!

Don't you want to know more than just facts about Jesus?

Finding Jesus!

Phil Ware shares a message he has shared privately many times about how to experience Jesus, how for Jesus to be real in our lives, each day.

How do we get started on rebuilding our relationship with Jesus, a relationship He yearns to have with us?