Articles Tagged 'Help' (Page 4)

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.

Someone for Us

Phil Ware reminds us of Jesus' idea of greatness and challenges us to follow the example of the often forgotten Onesiphorus, a "One-Who-Is-For-Us" friend.

We all need a 'Someone-For-Us' Friend!

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.

Choosing to Be the 1!

Phil Ware uses the parable of the 10 lepers to remind us that we want to be the 1 who returns to give thanks even though we live in a world where most people are not very thankful!

In a world seeking to get and acquire, do we pause to give thanks for all we have?

The Lord is Near: Assurance

Phil Ware shares his message focused on Paul's promises that the Lord will always be near us, focusing on Jesus' promises to his early disciples and to us!

No matter what life, Satan, or circumstances suggest, we will never be forsaken by our God!

Compassion for the Fatherless

This powerful message is from an orphan who was abandoned and abused by family and rescued by a sponsor.

Hear the words of one who has lived it: What does an orphan desire most?

Angels Among Us!

Brian McCutchen reminds us of the special role God has for angels in our lives.

You never know who a stranger is or the special person who is helping you out of an embarrassing mess!

Two Little Girls

Phil Ware reminds us of the power of compassion, especially when that compassion is channeled to help children escape poverty in Jesus' name through Compassion International.

To Jesus, she's more than just another forgotten little girl!

How to Pray and Hope When the World Falls Apart

A special article about a man name Pranjees, the children he lost and the prayer he had answered.

When life crashes in on top of you, how do you dig out of your grief and loss?

Strongholds

Max Lucado reminds us of what we don't want others to know about us and we don't want to admit ourselves -- we have strongholds that require drastic action to tear down and we have to invite God into every area of our lives for that to happen.

Where does the Loch Ness monster of your soul dwell?

What a Prayer Partner

Phillip Morrison reminds us of Jesus' incredible role in interceding for us always and living to make that intercession in our defense.

Most folks don't even know about this promise about Jesus!

Loose Lug Nuts and the RagTag Band

Phil Ware reminds us that we want to not only share in the Lord's Supper, but we also want our table to be like Levi's table of grace and friendship.

Will we make the Lord's Table like Levi's table?

Would I Dig a Hole?

Phil Ware talks about four friends who dig a hole in the roof to get their friend to Jesus so he could be healed; so what would we be willing to do to get our friends to Jesus to be saved?

What would you not do to save the life of a friend?

Go and Do Likewise

Yet this parable, or teaching story, is focused on one man who personally, intimately and immediately did something. Thus, the lesson is that as followers of Jesus, we need to go and do likewise as we travel over our own roads of life and help those in ne

What do you do, actually do, to help your neighbor?

Purpose

This post continues Phil Ware's look at the man with leprosy in Mark 1:35-45 and Jesus' loving interaction with the man after he had committed to live out the Father's purpose in his life.

Jesus refused the route of popularity and chose to live for God's purpose.

Pray

Phil Ware shares his second post on Mark 1:35-45 and learning to touch the broken as Jesus touched them by learning to pray as Jesus prayed.

To touch the broken as Jesus did, I must learn to pray as Jesus prayed!

No Turning Back!

Phillip Morrison reminds us to focus forward and let go of the past.

We can't go back, so let's go forward with faith and determination and hope!

A Plea to Fellow Believers

Tom Norvell makes a plea to fellow believers to think before speaking and acting and try to line up both with our example of how Jesus spoke and acted toward others.

If you could ask your fellow believers one thing, what would that be?

A Caution about Criticism

Rubel Shelly reminds us that unfair criticism is a part of life so we need to rely on our relationship with God to overcome it and we need to not ever become one of those kinds of criticizers.

Some criticism isn't helpful, it is withering, so how do we deal with it?

Blessed: Gracious Servant

Phil Ware takes a moment to remind us of the importance of serving those who are caregivers and holding them up as heroes and recognizing that these people are considered precious in God's Kingdom.

Sometimes we look God's greatest blessings in the face and miss them!

When the Way Out Is Through

Phil Ware begins a series called Saved at Sea which focuses on God's deliverance and truth found in the stories about the sea and rivers and water in the Bible.

What do we do in the middle of our challenges and problems with no plan in sight?

Defying ISIS: #togESTHER

Ann Voskamp on going to Iraq and meeting with those who have lost so much to ISIS and she calls us to wake up and do something

What we can do to help!

Vanishing Friendship

Rubel Shelly talks about the repeated and consistent loss of friends and friendship in American culture and how we can combat it.

What are you going to do to stem the loss of friendship in your life?

Sorry Happy for You

Stacy Voss writes about her pain and a friend's pain at finding out that their husbands have been unfaithful and had repeated adulteries.

How in the world be sorry and happy both?

Warming Up to Love!

Phil Ware shares more of his recent trip to Fortaleza, Brazil with Compassion International and the Nerd Herd to visit Compassion sites, projects, children, and churches.

What does a little girl do when a stranger from far away shows up at school?

But Who Won the Game?

Rubel Shelly writes about a basketball game between the Gainesville Tornadoes and the Vanguard Vikings and the fans who helped give the team a life.

Sometimes the final score doesn't count as much as the way the game is played!