Articles Tagged 'God' (Page 11)

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.

Our Journey with God

Phil Ware and James Nored remind us that we can journey with God like Abraham, knowing that he goes with us until he brings us fully home.

How do I know God is really with me on my journey to find a home with him?

Honesty with God on Our Journey of Faith

James Nored and Phil Ware remind us that Abraham's journey of faith wasn't easy, his life was not perfect, and his questions for God were real.

Thankfully the Bible is honest about the flaws of our heroes so we can know that we can be a person of faith useful to God, too!

Promises! Promises?

James Nored and Phil Ware remind us that God keeps his promises and Jesus is the ultimate proof that God's promises can be trusted!

Is God good enough and big enough to make all of his great promises come true?

God Made Touchable

Phil Ware challenges us to remember that Jesus was God made touchable and that Communion makes God touchable to us again.

That is God with curly dark brown hair and wood shavings in his hair and callouses on his hands. That is God come live among us.

Freedom to Choose

Max Lucado reminds us about our freedom to choose Jesus and eternal life or not.

While we can get frustrated by our lack of choices about some things in life, the most important choice of all is ours because of Jesus!

Dinner with Abba

Phil Ware reminds us that the cross was personal to Jesus and to us and because of it, we come to God as our 'Abba Father.'

Communion is a reminder of why we belong at the Father's Table of grace.

Simple Oil Changes

Max Lucado reminds us that God wants to help us through our hardest challenges.

Why is it so hard to let our Father help us?

Viewing People as Jesus Did!

Phil Ware reminds us of the four ways we often view people that are very crass and treats them as less than human, then he compares that to how Jesus views people.

Too often as human beings, we tend to view people in ways that demean their value to God and reveal the diminished value we place upon them.

Rebellious Confusion

James Nored and Phil Ware share in thought and video several important truths about the Tower of Babel story and the human resistance to the will of God.

The story of the Tower of Babel is a reminder of the confusion that ultimately results from refusing to obey God's will.

In Our Hands

Phil Ware continues his series of Communion devotionals called 'Beyond Bread and Wine' with a reminder that our often taken for granted hands can lead us to a profound grace!

The Father has given us a simple way of remembering the significance of this Supper: our hands!

God Still Cares

James Nored and Phil Ware continue their messages on God's plan of redemption and how God longs to restore us to himself.

When we have sinned, fallen short of God's plans for us, and have disappointed our heavenly Father, we assume he puts us into his “club for the unwanteds.”

The Gospel According to Nintendo

Phil Ware continue their series on Finding Our Story in God's Story of Redemption by focusing on the beauty of creation, the arts, and sharing God.

How do we leverage creation to cry out for the Creator to be the guiding force in our lives?

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.

Beautiful to Broken

James Nored and Phil Ware continue helping us find our story in God's story, this time looking at the Fall.

Why reject the goodness of God and all he has done to choose our own way?

Finding God's Will

Max Lucado reminds us of the most important thing as we seek to know God's will for our lives.

How in the world do we know what God wants?

Made Out of Love

James Nored and Phil Ware continue their series on Finding My Story in God's Story and listening to what the Bible says about our world, about us, and about where to find life.

Why in the world did the Creator make us and give us such a beautiful place to live?

God Became Flesh

Max reminds us that a baby makes us do crazy things at Christmas and this baby should help us see God!

Take a look at this baby and see God... in a manger, come to be with us!

Give Me Jesus: Then!

Phil Ware continues his Christmas series, entitled "Give Me Jesus", focusing this week on the specific time, the then, of Jesus' coming.

We sometimes forget that Jesus' birth, so wrapped in sentimentality at Christmas, was a real event when the Immortal God chose to wrap himself in the fragile face of a newborn child.

Something Greater to Come

Phillip Morrison reminds us that waiting and Christmas and Advent involve waiting and the wait is worth the effort when the desire of our hearts comes and fills us with his love.

Waiting for the Lord to come and realizing that his coming is clothed in love.

Give Me Jesus: BEFORE!

Phil Ware begins a four series set of articles for Advent and this first one is called BEFORE and focuses on Jesus being God, pre-existent before the world began.

Who is that little child in that manger who looks so tiny and fragile?

An Early Christmas Would Be Nice

Max Lucado reminds that Jesus, the Son of God, the Christ and Messiah, came to us in a manger in Bethlehem.

Despite all the mess and the complications, God came to live among us being born in a place where animals fed.

Christmas Can Bring Out the Best in Us!

Brian McCutchen shares with us about the need for Christmas to continue year round.

The challenge is to help others celebrate Jesus 365 days a year.

After the Crowd Has Gone

Phil Ware reminds us that Jesus gave us a great example on how to deal with the challenges we face after a great thanksgiving feast.

Thanksgiving is over; so what do we do now as we return to the challenges of life?

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!

The Lord is Near: Acorn

Phil Ware continues his series that the Lord is near focusing on the power of this promise found in the Lord's faithfulness, love, and grace.

The power of the oak is in the acorn!