Articles Tagged 'Gain'

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.

What is CORE: Baptizing

Phil Ware continues his series on "What is CORE" by talking about baptism and why it is important.

God has given us a way to experience the saving work Jesus' death, burial, and resurrection.

What is CORE: Baptizing

Phil Ware continues his series on "What is CORE" by talking about baptism and why it is important.

God has given us a way to experience the saving work Jesus' death, burial, and resurrection.

A Day of Surprise?

Paul Faulkner reminds us to greet each day as a gift of something fresh, new, and something that has never happened before or will again.

Things are not always the same. You wake up in the morning, and things are changing every day.

I Doubt It: The Delivery Room

Phil Ware continues his series on 'I Doubt It' by talking about Jesus' encounter with Nicodemus and his need to be born of God, from above, born again.

If Nicodemus needed grace despite all his religious accomplishments and his genuinely God-seeking heart, then we desperately need grace, too.

The Wisdom God Longs to Give Us!

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in virtual worship through words and music using YouTube videos encouraging us to recognize that God is our Father who longs to share His heavenly wisdom with His people.

We know that our God showers his grace upon us. One of his greatest gifts is heavenly wisdom, given when we ask for it in faith.

Entering the Mystery!

Phil Ware challenges us to enter the mystery of the conception and birth of Jesus the Messiah with Mary and find ourselves caught up in the story of Jesus with her.

The Holy Spirit gives birth to Lord in the heart of each new Christian and longs to bring that new follower of Christ to full maturity in Jesus.

How Do You Grasp the Mystery?

Phil Ware challenges us to enter the mystery of the conception and birth of Jesus the Messiah with Mary and find ourselves caught up in the story of Jesus with her.

The Holy Spirit gives birth to Lord in the heart of each new Christian and longs to bring that new follower of Christ to full maturity in Jesus.

What is CORE: Baptizing

Phil Ware continues his series on "What is CORE" by talking about baptism and why it is important.

God has given us a way to experience the saving work Jesus' death, burial, and resurrection.

Do Again in Our Day What You Did Before!

Phil Ware and Demetrius Collins lead us into worship through songs, Communion, and the Word God, inviting us to realize that God's presence and power are still available to us today and we can ask God to do again in our day what he did in days of old thro

Why settle for a past-tense God when the Lord longs to move through us with power from the Holy Spirit?

When Life Is Unfair!

James Nored and Phil Ware remind us of the importance of God's past stories of deliverance to help us know how to live in our times of unfairness and hold onto hope in the middle of oppression.

God’s great story of redemption reminds us of three truths that we must take with us as we live in a world that always seems to tilt away from fairness.

Restoring the Creator's Intent

Phil Ware continues his series on the biblical view of women and God's plan to use Jesus' people to live out his purposes in his kingdom.

The divine goodness of our Creator has been ripped apart by human selfishness and suspicion, leaving behind its insidious and poisonous residues.

I Doubt It: The Delivery Room

Phil Ware continues his series on 'I Doubt It' by talking about Jesus' encounter with Nicodemus and his need to be born of God, from above, born again.

If Nicodemus needed grace despite all his religious accomplishments and his genuinely God-seeking heart, then we desperately need grace, too.

Reality Check

The crucifixion and resurrection are at the heart of the good news of Jesus. He came to this world, was rejected and killed, then overcame death and the grave. One day he will come again, and God will judge the world through him. Those who have put their

Could the story be true?

What is Core: Baptism

Phil Ware continues his series on What is Core by talking about baptism and why it is important.

Finding God's place for us to connect with Jesus' saving work.

Caught between Glory and Grumbling

Phil Ware continues his series based on The Story and focuses on Moses' leadership and his position as the go between for God in all his glory and the constantly grumbling Israelites!

How in the world did Moses lead in this mess?

What You Need to Move Ahead

Rick Brown reminds us that even though we may have already begun to slip back into the old way of living, the New Year can be bring us fresh life if we remember this.

Does the New Year already seem like an old one?

Right Destination, Wrong Gate

God is clear about the only way to live with Him forever. It is through Jesus.

Who really knows the right way to heaven?

Becoming a Citizen

The only way to become a citizen in God's kingdom is to be born a second time, born of water and God's Holy Spirit.

What's the easiest way to become a citizen?

Don't Let Failure Be Final

Mike Barres talks about a real mess he made when he tried to cook when his wife was pregnant, but he tries again 28 years later to see if he can do it -- and does, reminding us to not quit with a failure.

How long has it been since you tried to do it again?

Power to Change People

Paul Faulkner cites a recent Wallstreet Journal report on domestic violence and observes that change happens one man and one family at a time.

Can anything change our decaying culture for the better?

How Do You Grasp this Mystery?

Jesus wasn't just born into our world in the womb of Mary, but he longs to be born into our world again in each individual Christian the Holy Spirit gives birth to in the world.

Jesus longs to be born again into our world in me?

What's Your Price?

Selling a bike for $5 (five dollars) is a bad deal, but not nearly as bad as giving away our soul for something valueless.

What are you willing to trade in for this prize?

A Blank Page

All the big events in our lives and even many of the daily routines all begin with a blank page, including the grace God gives us to start fresh each day with a blank page.

Where does it all start?

Fresh and New

It's a bright and shining new year so let's do something with it to bless the Lord and his kingdom.

What will you do with this fresh and shining new year?

The Pains of Childbirth

We are in the time of pain, the time of pregnancy, waiting for the birth of our ultimate life in with God.

What's it feel like to be pregnant?