Articles Tagged 'Freedom'

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.

Flying High with Freedom!

Phil Ware reflects on the importance of freedom and what Paul teaches in Galatians.

We have been set free, so let's not give up our freedom?

It's All About People!

Phillip Morrison reminds us in the shadow of Independence Day about the many inconsistencies when principles are first applied, yet he also urges us to be patient and gracious and open to the needs of all people.

Through the years and all the changes, one thing remains true about the heart of God.

Free to Be Authentic

When we don't have to impress folks, we are free to live authentically.

Are you truly free?

People Count Most

Stuff enslaves us rather than blesses us and people count most in our lives.

How much stuff do you own and have in your garage?

Free to Be Authentic

When we don't have to impress folks, we are free to live authentically.

Are you truly free?

Free to Serve

Paul Faulkner reminds us of our freedom in Christ to serve and find God's blessing.

Set free and yet we still serve?

Using Our Freedom Redemptively

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in an online worship through words and music using YouTube videos to remind us we are free in Christ from bondage to sin, death, satan, hell, purposelessness, loneliness, so we can use our freedom to serve and liber

In our broken world where people say and do hostile things against us, we choose to use our freedom to serve them in love.

Christ at the Center

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in an online, DIY, worship through words and music using YouTube videos to celebrate Father's Day and Juneteenth, and also focus on the practical ways we live in relationship with others with Christ at the center of

We choose to follow our Lord's example and submit our desires to the needs of others.

For Freedom!

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in a virtual, DIY, worship through words and music using YouTube videos to celebrate our freedom in Christ and make a commitment to never give up our freedom to law-keeping or sin.

God set us free from law-keeping and sinful rebellion so that we can find freedom to become all we were created to be.

Refusing to Step into the Snare

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in a virtual, DIY, worship through words and music using YouTube videos to fortify our commitment to not live in fear of what others may think of us or do to us, but to trust in God who is with us.

What is the snare we must avoid? It's living in fear of what others may think of us or do to us because we follow Jesus.

New Frontiers of Grace through Obedience

Phil Ware lead through worship in song, the Lord's Supper, a powerful message from God's word about the blessings in obedience to give us the freedom to become all that God intended us to be.

We believe in the Lord's goodness and grace. We trust that obeying the LORD opens our lives to the new frontiers of his grace!

ToGather.church for November 8 is Ready!

Dr. Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware invite you to join us for our Sunday, Verse of the Day focused, home worship guide and videos, called ToGather.church!

You're invited to use our worship guide for your home or group worship!

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.

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.

Renown or Ransom?

Jame Nored and Phil Ware remind us of Jesus' example of being a servant and giving his life as a ransom to buy our freedom.

How could Jesus' 12 apostles be so clueless? O, yeah. I'm that clueless about half the time!

Refresh

Patrick Odom uses the short letter of Paul to Philemon to remind us what is important in Christ.

If the gospel we believe doesn't cause us to liberate people from the chains of our prejudices and selfishness, then perhaps we don’t understand it.

Legion No More!

Phil Ware reminds us the battle we are in with Satan with our lives and how Jesus can end our bondage to him.

Jesus came to bring us freedom from bondage to Satan and his power.

The Capacity of Compassion Within Us

Phillip Morrisson reminds us of four men of great courage and compassion who gave all they had to help others find God and survive tragedy.

Jesus said that there is no greater love!

It's All About People!

Phillip Morrison reminds us in the shadow of Independence Day about the many inconsistencies when principles are first applied, yet he also urges us to be patient and gracious and open to the needs of all people.

Through the years and all the changes, one thing remains true about the heart of God.

The Unspoken Source of Anxiety

Max Lucado talks about being released from the chains of guilt from the sin in the past and set free to live for God by grace.

How can we lay down this concrete block that weighs us down and sinks our lives?

Flying High with Freedom!

Phil Ware reflects on the importance of freedom and what Paul teaches in Galatians.

We have been set free, so let's not give up our freedom?

Safe Place?

Rubel Shelly writes about the terror attack in France and about how we can only find our security in God.

Where can we go and know that we are truly safe?

Fences

My dogs just want to chase squirrels. What they don't realize is the danger that puts them in. They don't understand that the fence that seems restricting is actually something put there to protect them.

Is God a party pooper?

Sweet Redemption

Phillip Morrison writes about Cristo Redentor, Christ the Redeemer, the statue and the work of Jesus, about the principle of redemption, and how Jesus saves us and redeems us.

What does it mean to really be redeemed?

Do Our Churches Prefer Cushions over Crosses?

Rubel Shelly reminds us of MLK, Martin Luther King, Jr., and how he taught us we were all equal in God's eyes and that Jesus was the answer to uniting us into one people under God.

When sports fail to bring us together as one, then what will we do?