Articles Tagged 'For' (Page 6)

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.

Simple Beginnings, Profound Impact

Phil Ware reminds us not to put away Jesus with the Christmas lights and blow up snowman, but to remember that Christ is alive in us!

Can anything good come from Nazareth?

Words We Long to Hear

Phil Ware continues his series called Beyond Bread and Wine and focuses on the three sets of words we most long to hear.

What words do you most long to hear from Jesus today?

In the Hands of the Potter

Tom Norvell reminds us what it means to be in the hands of the potter!

God is the potter. He created us, taking us from an idea to what He imagined we could be, then shaping us into something beautiful.

You’re Not Getting Older, You’re Getting Closer!

At the beginning of the New Year, and the beginning of his new year of living, Phil Ware challenges us to be more like Jesus, especially in the way he loves people.

Why feel this kind of urgency? Why not think about retirement and enjoying my... ?

Teach Us to Pray 12: Deliver Us

Phil Ware and Andy Johnson help us look at our prayer for deliverance from temptation and the evil one.

Why would God lead us into temptation? Doesn't God want us victorious over temptation?

Teach Us to Pray 11: Released Captives

Phil Ware with Grady King give us insight on Jesus' example and command to forgive others as we pray for our own forgiveness.

My own lack of forgiveness toward others can shut off the flow of God's forgiveness to me.

Sharing Life with Christ

James Nored and Phil Ware share in video and word how we can share in the life of Jesus in our lives today.

Jesus is not only our Savior and Lord, but he is also the model on whom we are to build our lives!

Teach Us to Pray 09: Recalibrating Need

Phil Ware with Andy Johnson remind us that our prayer is for the bread we need today, not the extravagance we want for ourselves.

Our prayers often treat God as if he is the free Amazon delivery service for our every whim and want.

Life to Our Mortal Bodies!

James Nored and Phil Ware emphasize the importance of the Holy Spirit in our resurrection from the dead.

Jesus wasn’t just raised from the dead; he is also now alive in us through the Holy Spirit!

We All Need Jesus!

James Nored and Phil Ware remind us that we all needed Jesus' redemptive death on the cross so we could find new life in the grace of God.

Because we could not be

For the Unseen Heroes

Tom Norvel sees the folks who face uphill challenges and yet keep on keeping on and is amazed and thanks them and affirms them and wants to be more like them.

How do they do it? I see them, am amazed by them, and want to be more like them.

Jesus Smiled

Phil Ware reminds us of John Mark's failure when he deserted the mission field and the mission team and describes how God used this mess and the grace, mercy, and love of godly men to bring great good out of potential disaster.

Our God is the God of surprising opportunities, fresh hope, and new life.

Three Fires

Phil Ware reminds of three fires in the life of the apostle Peter and what they can mean for us.

Jesus doesn't abandon us in our fire failure.

Who Do YOU Say I Am?

James Nored and Phil Ware challenge us to answer the same question Jesus asked his first followers at Caesarea Philippi: 'Who do you say I am?'

At a place with great spiritual and physical significance, Jesus challenged his followers to decide about his identity.

Skipping Communion?

Phil Ware reflects on the words of Jesus, the actions of the apostle Paul, and the example of a couple of men in his life, all focused on the theme of reconciliation.

Jesus didn't pray for unity just so Christians could sit in a happy circle, hold hands, and sing Kum Ba Yah around the campfire at church camp.

Free to Become

Phil Ware reminds us on the eve of Independence Day in the U.S. and movements all around the world striving for freedom, that the Holy Spirit gives us the greatest freedom of all!

Thoughts of freedom permeate the thoughts of the people of our world right now.

Resurrection 2.8: With Christ

Phil Ware continues his series on Resurrection 2.0 and focuses this week on a way we can share with Jesus in his saving work even if we were not present when it happened years ago.

Maybe you're like me and have imagined these kinds of things as you've read the story of Jesus.

In His Steps to Share His Light

Phil Ware and James Nored, through word and video, remind us of our need to return to the Jesus-styled kind of life.

Jesus went up on the mountain and taught his followers to live the good life — to live as Jesus did!

Resurrection 2.7: Let the Clouds Remind You!

Phil Ware continues his series on Resurrection 2.0 and focuses this week on Jesus' return in the clouds which is guaranteed by his resurrection from the dead.

As followers of Jesus, the clouds hold a message of hope for us, not just a warning.

Our One Defining Note

Phil Ware and James Nored remind us that the core of our faith is Jesus, that Christ is our defining note around whom all of us must tune our lives and recognize the grace of being called and transformed to be like him.

Do we realize the grace of getting to tune our lives to Jesus?

Resurrection 2.6: The Lord of Fresh Starts

Phil Ware continues his series on Resurrection 2.0 focusing on Jesus' loving confrontation of Peter about his arrogance and failure and then restoring him back to ministry.

Wouldn't life be better if we could have a fresh start after making a mess of things?

Desert of Trial

James Nored and Phil Ware discuss the temptations and trials of Jesus and why they are important to us and what they have to say to us as people who are part of God's story.

Because he knew the true and living God, the heart behind the Scriptures, he could recognize the forger, the fraud.

Cruciformed #8: The Land of In-between

Phil Ware finishes up his series on CRUCIFORMED and the way of the cross that Jesus shows us in the Gospel of Mark.

That unsettling

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.

Holding on to Bitterness?

Max Lucado reminds us of the importance of forgiveness or bitterness poisons our hearts and destroys our influence.

Without forgiveness, bitterness is all that’s left!