Articles Tagged 'Find'

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.

Connecting Those We Know with Jesus

Phil Ware continues his series on 'The Andrew Effect' by focusing on connecting those we know with Jesus.

O, God, our hearts ache for them to know Jesus, please help us know how!

Connecting Those We Know with Jesus

Phil Ware continues his series on 'The Andrew Effect' by focusing on connecting those we know with Jesus.

O, God, our hearts ache for them to know Jesus, please help us know how!

Surprises and Smiles

Ron Rose is at a new coffee place and is enjoying God reminding him of our delightful surprises can be.

At this point in life, I take each surprise as a God thing, a lesson to learn, and a reason to smile!

The Path of the Wind

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in a virtual, DIY, worship through words and music using YouTube videos to lead us to worship God in his magnificence and greatness.

While the glorious magnificence of God is largely unknowable, the Creator has left his fingerprints on his creation and longs for us to seek after him and come to know him.

Leaving the Imprint of a Mother's Faith

Phil Ware writes about Mary as the mother of Jesus and reminds that Jesus, along with every other child, was 'wet cement' given by God to form into the person the Father wants them to be.

What's a mom supposed to do with wet cement?

Treasure

Phil Ware tells us a simple story of a mother's love to remind how our Father sees us as his treasure.

How can such a discovery, no matter how badly dirt-encrusted and stained, not be seen as a genuine treasure?

Grace Comes After You!

Max Lucado reminds us how God's grace pursues, comes after, and seeps into us if we allow it to flood over us.

Is there anywhere we can go to escape God's grace? I don't think so!

Sitting Duck?

Max Lucado reminds us sometimes loneliness is an invitation from God to find his perfect love that can drive out fear and chase away our isolation and fill it with love and promise.

What if loneliness has an invitation for a great discovery about God?

Connecting Those We Know with Jesus

Phil Ware continues his series on "The Andrew Effect" by focusing on connecting those we know with Jesus.

O God, make our hearts ache for them to know Jesus!

Finding Jesus: O Living Word

Phil Ware continues his Christmas series on finding Jesus and emphasizes Jesus' promise to be real to us and near us and in us if we seek him and ask him.

Can Jesus really be experienced at Christmas?

Building a Culture of Honor: Accountability

Phil Ware continues his series on building a culture of honor with a focus on accountability -- both holding others accountable and holding ourselves accountable for our growth in the Lord.

Holding each other and ourselves accountable for our growth toward Jesus it often the forget piece in building a culture of honor.

It Starts with Mission

Tim Woodroof begins a series of articles by Interim Ministry Partners on discovering a congregation's mission by talking about how churches want to find someone to fill the pulpit in a hurry when they first need to discover who they are and what their mis

Where do you begin to find a new preacher, pastor, or minister?

This Treasure Is up for Grabs

Ron Rose writes about the good things he used to find in the garbage dump and how there are special surprises and treasures that he found along the way and how we can do the same thing with people if we are willing to get messy.

Treasure among all the garbage?

Real People, Real Family

Phil Ware continues his series from Matthew on God's presence in Jesus and this week talks about church as family, not community.

So how do we get real about the church?

When Our Star first Began to Shine

Phil Ware writes about the Christmas star that actually began to shine many years before the Magi found it!

It's Been up There a long, long Time!

Why Doesn't God Answer My Prayers?

Ron Rose writes about unanswered prayers and letting God find us and us having conversations with our heavenly Father.

What happened to Jesus' promise?

Out of Chaos

Phil Ware continues with The Story and focuses on the first eleven chapters of Genesis and the Fall and the brokenness of our world.

How in the world did we get into this mess?

Handwritten Message from Heaven: I AM

Phil Ware begins a series of messages on the "I AM" sayings of the Bible.

Is Jesus claiming to be God?

Finding God on the Mountain

The story of Eijah helps us understand what finding God can be like

What will God be like when you find Him?

He Didn't Save it for Us

Rubel Shelly talks about a family who found money in the attic of their newly purchased house and returned it to the heirs of the previous owners because they were honest and wanted their kids to know the truth of character.

Integrity can be costly in the long run while paying huge dividends in those we teach!

Compass Point

Phil Ware continues to share his thoughts on helping kids find Jesus, Sagrada Familia, the Community, in Lima, Peru, and what matters most in our lives.

Which direction is right?

To Seek, to Reach Out, to Find

God acted at Babel so that men would seek Him rather than seeking their own glory, so they would reach out for Him rather than merely depending on one another, so that men would find Him.

When human plans meet God's design…

Celebration in Heaven

Patrick Odum writes about a lost class ring and compares it to Jesus' parable about the lost coin and reminds us that the joy of someone coming to Christ should thrill us, too.

Lost ring, found joy!

Lost and Found

Phil Ware tells about a time he lost his son Zachary and then found him and the joy of finding lost sheep in the teaching of Jesus.

Isn't it a blessing when you find what's been lost?!

Can You See It?

Ron Rose challenges us to look beyond the ugliness and pettiness of the age and find real beauty and loveliness in our worlds.

Are you looking beyond the ugliness of the age to find something more?