Articles Tagged 'Friendship'

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!

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!

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!

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.

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?

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

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.

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?

A Mother's Beautiful and Tenacious Grace

Cathy Messecar shares a beautiful story about an adoptive mom and dad who have shown tenacious and beautiful love to a young man born with very challenging physical limitations.

This is how much a mother can love!

Taste of Grace, Glimpse of Glory

Phil Ware writes about a group of young men and young women interning in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and the cultural and racial melting pot that is the church.

Where can you actually see and taste a little bit of heaven?

Stop by the Lobby and See My Underwear!

Phillip Morrison remembers a dear friend and patriot and faithful disciple named Bette Johnson.

What a strange way to get folks to a display on Memorial Day!

Untold Stories: Onesiphorus — The Refreshing Gift of Friendship

Phil Ware begins a short series on Untold Stories from the Bible and shares the story of Onesiphorus refreshing Paul while he was in prison.

What can I do that really matters to the Kingdom of God?

The Friends

As you read the accusations of the friends, Job must have done something really bad to provoke God and with Job's claim of innocence and bewilderment, it's easy to forget that up until the time they opened their mouths, they were doing what good friends d

A friend in need is a friend indeed

Be a Neighbor this Week!

Rick Brown writes of Johnny Brown in Bermuda who greets and welcomes and shares greetings with people six hours each day.

Who will you show God's love today?

Master the Art of Welcoming

Rick Brown challenges us to be welcoming to those who are outsiders and those we do not know.

How open are our arms?

Connectedness

There are plenty of people with whom we can talk about politics or sports. Our old friends love remembering our school days and the things we did way back when. But when it comes time to open our heart, where can we go?

Have you been friended by God?

Grace Beyond the Miracle

Phil Ware talks about the events in the miracle stories that happen after the spectacle of the miracle takes place, the things that put people back into fellowship, community, and normalcy -- the way things were.

How come we focus on the spectacle and miss the greater miracle?

Have You Heard these Words?

Ron Rose reminds us that a few words and our physical presence can make all the difference in the life of someone else, just like Al Ware made a difference in Ron's life.

Just a few words and our presence can make all the difference in the world!

Welcome One Another

Phil Ware looks at Romans 15:7 and shares an experience from Thailand about feeling accepted and connected to people very different from himself.

How could I feel at home so far away from home?

Don't Let the Grass Grow Here!

Danny Sims talks about having a well worn path to the place of prayer because we are so close to God!

Where does your private path lead?

Friendship and the Abundant Life

Ron Rose shares some beautiful insights on friendship and the importance of a friend to living the abundant life.

Where can I find something more than more demands and more stuff?