Articles Tagged 'Full'

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.

I Doubt It: You Feed Them

Phil Ware continues his series on 'I Doubt it' focusing this week on Jesus' challenge to the apostles to feed the five thousand.

Will we hold a miracle in our hands? My experience says, “Yes!”

Night Songs

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in an online, worship through words and music using YouTube videos to invite God to permeate every moment of every day, including having our hearts tuned to God with night songs.

God wants us to live our lives to the full, inviting him to permeate each moment of each day, including our sleep time!

What Do We Do About Leadership Abuse?

Phil Ware continues his thoughts on becoming JesuShaped disciples, this week focusing on the horrors of the litany of spiritual abuse cases in the news and how different they are from Jesus’ definition of a JesuShaped leader and godly shepherd.

The description of the Good Shepherd in John 10 aligns beautifully with Jesus' definition of serving and giving himself to bless us in Mark 10.

Unleashing God's Holy Fire

Phil Ware completes his four part series on growing to become like Jesus through the transformative work of the Holy Spirit, the transformation that Jesus promises us when we choose to follow him as his disciple.

The Father has given us access to holy power and a way to bless each other through prayer if only we will take advantage of it!

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!

More than Meets the Eye

Phil Ware looks into Jesus feeding the five thousand and reminds us that he longs to do amazing things through us, too!

Exhausted, bone-weary, and insufficient to meet the task at hand? Ah, you may just be in the place where Jesus can use you most powerfully!

I Doubt It: You Feed Them

Phil Ware continues his series on 'I Doubt it' focusing this week on Jesus' challenge to the apostles to feed the five thousand.

Will we hold a miracle in our hands? My experience says, “Yes!”

The Lord is Near: Shalom!

Phil Ware finishes his six-part series on Paul's promises to the Philippians that the Lord is always near and God and the peace he brings will be with them.

More than an absence of conflict, the Lord wants to give us life to the full!

Unleashing God's Holy Fire

Phil Ware completes his four part series on growing to become like Jesus through the transformative work of the Holy Spirit, the transformation that Jesus promises us when we choose to follow him as his disciple.

The Father has given us access to holy power and a way to bless each other through prayer if only we will take advantage of it!

A Prayer about Things We Cannot Change

Rubel Shelly shares an important reality about dealing with the hand we are dealt and living life recognizing that there are many things we cannot change but have to do the best we can with.

Sometimes life is not fair with us, so what are we going to do about it?

What's Most Important?

Tom Norvell reminds us about our life's purpose, mission, goal, target and what gives our lives meaning and significance and eternal life.

So how do I find out this key to life?

Co-heirs with Christ

Phil Ware continues his series on the way God values a woman and how Pentecost begins a new humanity that is to work itself out in the life of Jesus' people, the church.

Paul blows away the confusion and declares us all equally heirs of God's promise!

What Jesus Said Is a Life-Changer: The Sozo Habit

Ann Voskamp shares the flash of insight that changed everything and began the journey of a 1000 God gifts and eucharisteo and thanksgiving.

One perspective change, one life change, and salvation can flood in!

Building a Culture of Honor: Serving

Phil Ware continues his series on building a culture of honor and focuses on Jesus washing his disciples' feet on the eve of his crucifixion.

How do you break down the strongest barriers? The secret is simple, watch Jesus!

Fast or Full?

Tom Norvel reminds us that life happens quickly, fast, and if we are not careful, we can get so busy that we miss life in all its fullness, abundance, and joy.

The old saying is that life happens fast, but can we live like that and enjoy its fullness?

I AM: God's Handwritten Message from Heaven - Bread

Phil Ware continues his series on the I AM statements in the Gospel of John focusing on Jesus being the bread of life.

Just how hungry are you?

When You're an Old Coot

Russ Lawson takes a gag gift he received from his kids and reminds us that it is OK to be an old coot if this means being different from the world.

Some negative descriptions actually may be good!

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?

Your Half Full Glass

Rubel Shelly takes on the negative sentiment of the day and confronts it head on.

What are you doing with all the negative news?

The Dance of Life!

Ron Rose talks about sleep walking through life like zombies and how we were made to find life and dance with joy and help others do the same.

Are you going through life like a zombie?

Whom Do You Hate?

Bill Denton challenges us to understand that hateful behavior is our expression of hate no matter how we try to deny it.

So why do we deny it instead of addressing it in our lives?

I'm Full!

God wants us to be full of Him, his grace, His mercy, His Spirit, His Love.

Are you still hungry or have you found a way to be full?

Fast Food or Truly Full

Have you found real nourishment? Not unless you know Jesus.

Are you really full with all that you have been eating?