Articles Tagged 'Generous'

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: Loving

Phil Ware continues his series on what is core and focuses on love and what it is and how Jesus and God demonstrate it.

Core to following Jesus is becoming like God in offering love, first.

What Is Core: Loving

Phil Ware continues his series on what is core and focuses on love and what it is and how Jesus and God demonstrate it.

Core to following Jesus is becoming like God in offering love, first.

Generous Like Our Father

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in an online, DIY, worship through words and music using YouTube videos to celebrate our blessings in Christ and our need to reflect our Father's values by being generous and gracious ourselves.

'Keep on helping the poor...' was a core commitment that came out of this history-changing moment in Jesus' church!

Cheerful Generosity

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in a virtual, DIY, worship through words and music using YouTube videos to call us to live generous lives of grace where we are joyful recipients of God's grace and cheerfully generous in our acts of mercy.

Why we should we be thankful, cheerful, and generous in a world full of negativity!

I Want to Be Like Her

Phil Ware continues his reflections in the Gospels as he seeks to call us to continue pursuing Jesus so that we can be JesuShaped.

Let's move beyond remembering her story; let's also commit to being like her in these four ways.

What Is Core: Loving

Phil Ware continues his series on what is core and focuses on love and what it is and how Jesus and God demonstrate it.

Core to following Jesus is becoming like God in offering love, first.

Be a Blessing

Phillip Morrison reminds us that giving of ourselves and our funds brings untold blessings to both the receiver and the giver!

When we open our hearts and lives to him, God fills them with wondrous, eternal treasures.

The Real Root of Brokenness

Ann Voskamp reminds us again of the incredible importance of giving thanks.

We must not dare forget to give thanks for how we're blessed and how great the Father is!

What Is Core: Love

Phil Ware continues his series on what is core and focuses on love and what it is and how Jesus and God demonstrate it.

Becoming like God in His most known virtue!

GIVE Generously?

Phil Ware continues his SHIFT series and focuses upon giving generously as a privilege and grace.

So what's the grace and privilege we are supposed to find here?

Living Large

Rubel Shelly tells about a Canadian couple who won the lottery and donated all but 2% of what they won to charity.

Aren't you tired of living within a shallow, narrow, selfish box?

Are You Prepared?

Tom Norvell compares Jesus' coming and our being generous to being prepared for a winter storm.

So when the storm hits, are you ready?

Trust?

Patrick Odum talks about a strange occurrence involving trust, a New York ad agency worker, a homeless man, and an American Express Card, which reminds us that God trusts us.

I'm not sure I'm that trusting: are you?

How Money Buys Happiness

Rubel Shelly helps us see how money buys happiness, by using it to help others who are in need!

Money can buy happiness?

Amazing Grace

Jesus is the reminder of God's unconditional love and willingness to search and sacrifice to find us and bring us home as our love-sick father.

Have you found out what is truly amazing this time of year?

The Joy of Giving

Patrick Odum tells about a boy who shared his winnings with his father rather than spending it only on himself and the joy that this attitude brought the father and Patrick compares this to the joy we give our Father, God, when we share.

How can this bring me more joy?

Exercising the Spirit: Hospitality

Hospitality is the Christian virtue of entertaining strangers, outsiders, and guests and recognizing in them angels or even the presence of God in the Trinity.

When was the last time you entertained angels?

Exercising the Spirit: Generosity

The spiritual discipline of generosity is crucial if we are going to grow in the spirit.

How can being generous grow our spirits?

No Strings Attached

Will we help those who need it simply because we follow Jesus and because they need it with no strings attached?

Will we help others in the same way that Jesus did?

Do Something for Someone Else

Jesus thought about others and helped them all the time and so must we.

What are you doing for someone else these days?

Haunting Eyes and Needed Guilt

Compassion must mean that we help those who around us with genuine help.

Can you still see their haunting look?

The Interests of Others

The interests of others must be our focus and not just our own stuff and wants.

Who do you spend most of your time thinking about?

Giving Back

Giving back can literally change the lives of those who receive and those who give

Can one person really change a whole community?

Give and It Will Be Given to You

While we are to give a tithe, the tithe is just a reminder to us that everything we have belongs to God.

So what are you really offering to the Lord for His service?

Overwhelmingly Blessed

We must realize that with our blessings comes the responsibility to use them generously.

When was the last time you counted your blessings?