Articles Tagged 'Friends'

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.

The Pentecost Challenge

Ron Rose is back at Black Rifle Coffee Company and visiting with friends about Pentecost Sunday and knowing each other's names.

We long for the day when we know fully, even as we are fully known!

The Hands that Helped Formed Me

Melissa Troyer shares the challenging and agonizing and glorious moments of giving birth through several difficult deliveries and remembers all the key people who have formed her into the woman she has become.

It's not in my most mountain top moments, but in the desolate, agonizing ones of inability where I've found that infilling.

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!

Biblical Marriage

Lee Wilson goes back to the beginning of Scripture and as an experienced relationship coach, invites people to look at God's plan to make marriages thrive.

Not an archaic form of subjugation but a divine and brilliant system for harmony, mutual enrichment, and voluntary submission!

The Pentecost Challenge

Ron Rose is back at Black Rifle Coffee Company and visiting with friends about Pentecost Sunday and knowing each other's names.

We long for the day when we know fully, even as we are fully known!

Seed, Towel, Promise, and Torchlight: The Towel

Phil Ware continues his series on Seed, Towel, Promise, and Torchlight focusing on common elements in our world, our lives, that Jesus used to join our hearts to his love.

The hands that would soon be nailed to a cross now reached for a towel to serve those that would abandon him while he hung on that cross, alone!

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!

Seed, Towel, Promise, and Torchlight: The Towel

Phil Ware continues his series on Seed, Towel, Promise, and Torchlight focusing on common elements in our world, our lives, that Jesus used to join our hearts to his love.

The hands that would soon be nailed to a cross now reached for a towel to serve those that would abandon him while he hung on that cross, alone!

Three Easy Ways To Help Service Members in Your Community

Rhonda Underhill shares simple ways to help active service members and veterans with their adjustments to civilian life and provides many good links to services and resources that are helpful.

Living in a civilian world after being in service can be a tough transition, but with support from their community and friends like you, a service member's life can be much easier to navigate.

Heartbroken!

Phil Ware reminds us that God shares our pain in our worst moments of grief and loss, God is heartbroken with us.

In the middle of our grief, loss, and brokenness, we must remember that we are not alone in our brokenness.

Beyond Trite Slogans to Real Help

Phil Ware writes about Romans 8:22-29, the bondage to decay that our world faces, our own troubles and hardships, and slogans that we often use and abuse to try to encourage people who are grieving, wounded, or hurt.

How can we say these things and really mean them when trying to help those who hurt?

Seed, Towel, Promise, and Torchlight: The Towel

Phil Ware continues his series on Seed, Towel, Promise, and Torchlight focusing on common elements in our world, our lives, that Jesus used to join our hearts to his love.

The hands that would soon be nailed to a cross now reached for a towel to serve those that would abandon him while he hung on that cross, alone!

Forever Friends!

Phil Ware reminds us that in Jesus, we are friends, and our friendships reach around the world, across cultures, and unite us in one family.

As followers of Jesus, we are blessed to have forever friends from all over the world!

Knowing the People Makes the Difference

Who do you know that needs your prayers and your help? What else can you do to help them because knowing the people makes the difference!

It's all about who you know

Kryptonite of Grace

Phil Ware challenges us with a hard truth about our low expectations of what we believe Jesus can do with us, for us, and through us -- are we, the church, the Nazareth of today?

Why in the world would Mark tell this story about what Jesus couldn't do after telling about four powerful miracles Jesus did?

God Made Touchable

Phil Ware challenges us to remember that Jesus was God made touchable and that Communion makes God touchable to us again.

That is God with curly dark brown hair and wood shavings in his hair and callouses on his hands. That is God come live among us.

I Will Believe for You Until You Can Believe for Yourself

Phil Ware reminds us of Mark's story about Jesus and the four friends who dug a hole in the roof to get their buddy to Jesus.

During times of cascading badness, friends sometimes need to believe for those caught in the crush of seriously bad stuff.

The Struggle to Find Faith

James Nored and Phil Ware look at C.S. Lewis and his struggle to find faith and our own challenges in believing.

I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!

After the Crowd Has Gone

Phil Ware reminds us that Jesus gave us a great example on how to deal with the challenges we face after a great thanksgiving feast.

Thanksgiving is over; so what do we do now as we return to the challenges of life?

A Circle of Love: Too!

Phil Ware takes us back to an old article from twenty years ago about a circle of love and a family that was sustained through tragedy and loss because of the love of friends.

When Jesus' family loves each other, even in our worst moments, we can find ourselves being carried!

Where Is the Love?

Tom Norvell reminds us that as disciples of Jesus, our job is to bring the love of Jesus into every arena of life, even if the rest of the world has forgotten to do so.

As followers of Jesus, it is my responsibility to speak and demonstrate the language of this authentic love.

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!

One Another

This is a collection of "one another" passages in the New Testament, and primarily from Paul, that speaks about life together.

We were not made to do life alone.

Heartbroken!

Phli Ware reminds us that God shares our pain in our worst moments of grief and loss, God is heartbroken with us.

In the middle of our grief, loss, and brokenness, we must remember that we are not alone in our brokenness.

Vanishing Friendship

Rubel Shelly talks about the repeated and consistent loss of friends and friendship in American culture and how we can combat it.

What are you going to do to stem the loss of friendship in your life?