Articles Tagged 'Gift'

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.

God Put His SIGnature on You!

Phil Ware reminds us that we are all God's gifted children and that God has put his signature on each of us in three different ways.

Can you see God's signature on his masterpiece?

The King Who Shares Our Wounds

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in virtual worship through words and music using YouTube videos and invite us to welcome Jesus, God who came to us to share our wounds and we see this in his manger and cross, the thrones on which he was exalted and

As we come to understand God as the King willing to show us his wounds, then share our wounds, the birth of Jesus takes on a fresh and powerful new meaning.

God's Great Gift to Us!

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in an online, virtual worship through words and music using YouTube videos to remind us and help us celebrate and live in appreciation to the grace of God.

Let's live out God's gift of grace by celebrating God's goodness, loving Jesus, and obeying what the Lord taught as we love, serve, and treat others as our Savior did!

Precious and Priceless

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in a virtual, DIY, worship through words and music using YouTube videos to remind us just how precious we are to the Lord and how greatly we matter to Him.

The value of a gift isn't the financial expense of the gift but the personal sacrifice made to give it!

To Your Advantage?

Melissa Troyer reminds us of Jesus' strange promise of going away being better for His disciples than staying with them.

It was in the middle of one of these nitty-gritty down-to-earth conversations between Jesus and His disciples that He fleshed out the secret.

More than God's Whisper

James Nored and Phil Ware share the meaning of Jesus' incarnation in word and video using a simple but powerful allegory.

How could God help us understand his faithful love for us, yet demonstrate his desire for us to live in our world with his righteous character and gracious compassion?

LOVING A SPOUSE WITH ADHD: Understanding the Misery and Ecstasy

Ken Fox, a relationship coach, shares insight and research on what it is like to be married to a person with adult ADHD.

More and more people have a better idea of the challenges of being married, or hopelessly in love with someone possessing the unmissable gifts you can't imagine living without!

Please...

Jordan Harrell leaves us with a powerful and beautiful reminder of God only calls us to be who he made to be in the situation he placed us!

Stop trying to be 'every mom'!

Proof That I Belong

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in virtual worship through words and music using YouTube videos to celebrate the Holy Spirit's presence in our lives that ensures we belong to the family of God.

The work and presence of the Holy Spirit give us the assurance that God has made us his children.

The King Who Shares Our Wounds

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in virtual worship through words and music using YouTube videos and invite us to welcome Jesus, God who came to us to share our wounds and we see this in his manger and cross, the thrones on which he was exalted and

As we come to understand God as the King willing to show us his wounds, then share our wounds, the birth of Jesus takes on a fresh and powerful new meaning.

More than God's Whisper Inviting Us Out of Flatland

James Nored and Phil Ware share the meaning of Jesus' incarnation in word and video using a simple but powerful allegory.

How could God help us understand his faithful love for us, yet demonstrate his desire for us to live in our world with his righteous character and gracious compassion?

Unflattering Beauty

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in virtual worship through words and music using YouTube videos to challenge us to use our strengths, interests, and gifts to bless others and glorify God.

We must try to see each other, our world, and ourselves with the eyes and the heart of God, not through our own self-serving point of view.

ToGather.church for November 22 is Ready!

Dr. Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware invite you to join us for our Sunday Verse of the Day home worship guide and videos, called ToGather.church!

You're invited to use our worship guide for your home or group worship!

Will I Be Jesus' Canvas and Clay?

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead through worship in song, the Lord's Supper, a powerful message from God's word, and a blessing to enable us to worship from home or with family and friends in a meaningful way and ask this important question: Can I rea

Have I truly decided to follow Jesus no matter where it may lead me? Jesus is the artist and the potter; each of us needs to be the canvas and clay where he creates a masterpiece.

Full Adoption into God's Family

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead through worship in song, the Lord's Supper, a powerful message from God's word, and a blessing to enable us to worship from home or with family and friends in a meaningful way and ask this important question: Can I rea

We are God's precious and highly valued adopted children!

Words We Long to Hear

Phil Ware continues his series called Beyond Bread and Wine and focuses on the three sets of words we most long to hear.

What words do you most long to hear from Jesus today?

More than Just God's Whisper

James Nored and Phil Ware share the meaning of Jesus' incarnation in word and video using a simple but powerful allegory.

How could God help us understand his faithful love for us, yet demonstrate his desire for us to live in our world with his righteous character and gracious compassion?

Just for You!

Max Lucado reminds us that God made all of creation just for each one of us as the crown of his creation.

If you were the only one who existed.

On Tiptoes with Angels

Phil Ware begins a five-part series on Jesus at Christmas. This week is focused on waiting for Jesus to come.

Christmas, like the coming of Jesus, is about waiting!

Scales on Our Eyes?

Phil Ware concludes his 14 part series on how God values women and their importance in the life of His people.

We're like the apostle Paul right before he was baptized: we can't see!

A Story That Must Be Told!

Phil Ware continues his series of messages of how Jesus values women, focusing this week on the loving and extravagant gift of the unnamed woman who broke her alabaster jar and anointed Jesus with expensive perfume.

Regardless of our reasons in the past, let’s make sure we honor the Lord’s wishes in this circumstance and others like it.

The Overflow of Grace

Phil Ware reminds of the importance and power of grace and that we can live out of the overflow of this grace and bless others.

We not only live in the overflow of grace, we are now the flow of that grace into the lives of those around us.

Wonderfully Unsettling Grace

James Nored and Phil Ware explore the wonderfully unsettling nature of God's grace and His desire to make it accessible to everyone.

God perched His grace on a tree of torture in the middle of humanity's worst abuses so that grace would be available to everyone... even you!

Jesus or Religion?

Phil Ware reminds us that in the familiar story of the wise men is a challenging and life-changing question we must all answer with our choices and with our lives.

Am I more like the wise men who passionately sought to find Jesus or the religious leaders who chose their traditions, positions, and power over Jesus?

Indescribable

Phil Ware shares a quick thank you for all who have donated and then focuses on establishing a new tradition of teaching his grandchildren to share what they have with others.

Wow! What a precious addition to our Christmas with these boys. We hope to do something like this every year.