Articles Tagged 'Forgiving'

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.

Thank You, O God, Our Father!

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in a virtual, DIY, worship through words and music using YouTube videos to help us honor and praise our Father in heaven on this Father's Day.

Some of us have had good fathers. Others have had absent fathers or bad fathers. In Christ, however, we have been adopted into God's family, and we all have a loving, powerful, tender, and attentive Abba Father!

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!

Father Forgive Them!

Phil Ware gives his applications on the seven sayings of Jesus from the cross for today's world and Jesus' followers.

How can we do this? How can we not?

Christians Behaving Badly

Rubel Shelly talks about Christopher Hitchens' illness and the way Christians react to it and the defense of our faith.

So how should they have reacted?

Jerks and the Secret of Sturdy Faith

Resentment kills us, but forgiveness allows us to exercise a growing faith like a mustard tree and let God do the impossible within us.

How in the world do we really overcome resentment?

How Fragile Is Your Ego?

Our egos are fragile and important but also dangerous, but we must learn humility.

Can your ego handle the call of Jesus to humility?

Sandpaper

Some people are just irritating, so how are we going to treat them? Like God has treated us!

What are you going to do with those irritating people?

God Loves a Slow Cooker

God is forgiving of us and we must be of each other.

Can you really hold off the condemnation?

The Hardest Grace of All

Forgiving others when they have truly hurt us is the hardest grace of all.

Can you really forgive?