Articles Tagged 'Flesh'

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.

Vulnerable God

Paul Faulkner reminds us that Jesus attracts us to God because of his vulnerability and humanity.

What touches you most about Jesus?

Vulnerable God

Paul Faulkner reminds us that Jesus attracts us to God because of his vulnerability and humanity.

What touches you most about Jesus?

ADVENT brings us LOVE

Phil Ware shares Scriptures and James Nored shares an inspirational video regarding the blessings and significance of Advent, Jesus' coming to earth as God in human flesh as our Savior and Lord.

God chose to come to us, suffer at our hands, and sacrifice himself so we could know the depth of God's redeeming love for us.

ADVENT brings us GOD

Phil Ware shares Scriptures and James Nored shares an inspirational video regarding the blessings and significance of Advent, Jesus' coming to earth as God in human flesh as our Savior and Lord.

Advent is the celebration of Jesus' coming to earth as Immanuel, God with us in human flesh!

Finding Jesus' Heart for Ministry: Raised

Phil Ware continues his series on Jesus touching a man with leprosy and focuses on how Jesus' touch and word of command made clean and redeemed this man who was left alone to die, abandoned by everyone and everything in his world, revealing Jesus' heart f

In the healing of a man with leprosy, we see the touch of Jesus and new life promised to us through the Spirit's resurrection power.

More than God's Whisper

James Nored and Phil Ware share the meaning of Jesus' incarnation in word and video using a simple but powerful allegory.

How could God help us understand his faithful love for us, yet demonstrate his desire for us to live in our world with his righteous character and gracious compassion?

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?

To Win Your Heart!

James Nored and Phil Ware challenge us to faith in the eternal God who chose to reveal himself by becoming human and living in our world

On this Christmas Day as we bring this year's journey to an end, the question you need to ask is as important to answer as it is simple to ask!

More than God's Whisper Inviting Us Out of Flatland

James Nored and Phil Ware share the meaning of Jesus' incarnation in word and video using a simple but powerful allegory.

How could God help us understand his faithful love for us, yet demonstrate his desire for us to live in our world with his righteous character and gracious compassion?

Unlikely Heroes Who Sacrifice

James Nored and Phil Ware remind us of that inner part of us that still bears the stamp of God's divine nature, the part that is touched by stories of self-sacrifice.

Their flesh yearned for a mighty conqueror who would slay their enemies. Jesus made it clear that he would not be that kind of hero!

How Do I Keep My Sinful Flesh in Check?

Phil Ware and Demetrius Collins invite us to worship God and keep our sinful nature, our flesh, in the past and nailed to the cross and lead us in worship through this practical home worship guide.

Those of us who have followed Jesus for any significant length of time know that keeping our sinful flesh in check is a challenge.

To Win Your Heart

James Nored and Phil Ware challenge us to faith in the eternal God who chose to reveal himself by becoming human and living in our world

As we bring this year's journey to an end, the question you need to ask is as important to answer as it is simple to ask!

Unlikely Heroes

James Nored and Phil Ware remind us of that inner part of us that still bears the stamp of God's divine nature, the part that is touched by stories of self-sacrifice.

Their flesh yearned for a mighty conqueror who would slay their enemies. Jesus made it clear to Peter that he was not that kind of hero!

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.

More than the Outskirts of His Ways

Phil Ware and James Nored share in word and video an idea about how we can truly understand God's greatness, glory, and grace even though we cannot understand everything about him.

If there is a God and he's out there, why doesn't he just get it over with and show himself to us? Why this need for faith?

Something Greater to Come

Phillip Morrison reminds us that waiting and Christmas and Advent involve waiting and the wait is worth the effort when the desire of our hearts comes and fills us with his love.

Waiting for the Lord to come and realizing that his coming is clothed in love.

Give Me Jesus: BEFORE!

Phil Ware begins a four series set of articles for Advent and this first one is called BEFORE and focuses on Jesus being God, pre-existent before the world began.

Who is that little child in that manger who looks so tiny and fragile?

An Early Christmas Would Be Nice

Max Lucado reminds that Jesus, the Son of God, the Christ and Messiah, came to us in a manger in Bethlehem.

Despite all the mess and the complications, God came to live among us being born in a place where animals fed.

Raised

Phil Ware continues his series on Jesus touching a man with leprosy and focuses on how Jesus' touch and word of command make clean and redeem this man who was left alone to die, abandoned by everyone and everything in his world.

In the healing of a man with leprosy, we see the touch of Jesus and new life promised to us through the Spirit's resurrection power.

The One with the Power

The next time you see a wonder of nature, don't just wonder at nature. Wonder at the One who created it all. The One with the power to stop wind and waves with just a word. For he is the same One with the power to change your life. He is the One wit

The winds and the waves obey Him!

Tiny Enough for All of Us

Phil Ware has one more Christmas thought to place in our hearts before we lose Jesus in the New Year!

Before we put Jesus away with our Christmas ornaments, let's pause for...

The Parable of the Birds

Phillip Morrison talks about the incarnation of God in human flesh in Jesus and the parable of the birds to explain why God had to do it.

This white Christmas revels more than a snowman.

The Story: U!

Phil Ware gets us back into The Story by taking us to Jesus' birth and looking from the prologue of the Gospel of John to try to understand what it means.

So we know a lot about Jesus' birth, but what does it mean?

I AM: God's Handwritten Messages from Heaven - Bottom Line Faith

Phil Ware continues his series on I AM, God's handwritten messages from heaven and focuses on the bottom line faith requirement -- Jesus is God come in human flesh.

Some things you have to believe or you have nothing worth believing in!

I AM: God's Handwritten Message from Heaven - Bread

Phil Ware continues his series on the I AM statements in the Gospel of John focusing on Jesus being the bread of life.

Just how hungry are you?