Articles Tagged 'Hole'

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.

I Doubt It: Never Die

Phil Ware continues his "I Doubt It" series focused today on Jesus' promise to Mary that those who believe in him will never die.

Can Jesus really promise us that we will never die?

Finding Jesus' Heart for Ministry: Touch

Phil Ware continues his series on Jesus' healing the man with Leprosy in Mark 1:35-45 and focuses in this post on Jesus' touch.

Without the personal touch, full healing never comes.

Finding Jesus' Heart for Ministry: Look

Phil Ware leads us deep into the heart of Jesus for ministry as he looks at Jesus' actions and emotions in Mark 1:35-45, today focusing on how Jesus looked at the situation and into the heart of man with leprosy.

Take a look at what Jesus did and feel the call to look and see people as Jesus did!

Through the Keyhole of Grace

Phil Ware compares Jesus to a keyhole through which we look at God and the closer we get to Jesus the more clearly we see God and gives us a reading plan to discover more!

What can we learn about God by looking at Jesus?

Finding Jesus: Reaching for God, Not Substitutes

Phil Ware continues his series of posts on the Immanuel Project, the way Jesus promised we could know and experience God.

Where can we go to experience God and fill the hole inside of us?

Escaping the Dark, Lonely, Hole of Depression

Teresa Bell Kindred opens up about her struggle with anxiety and depression, a secret hidden in her family for multiple generations, and she urges us to open up and get help.

Find someone you can talk to. Don't wait any longer. Get the conversation started!

A Shattered Lamp and a Broken White Stallion

Phil Ware talks about a broken horse statue and a shattered pink lamp and how God not only forgives but also purifies us and makes us whole.

How do you put a shattered life back together?

More Deadly than Cancer

Bill Sherrill has a visit with a surgeon about removing malignant tissue and this experience opens his eyes about how we must treat sin in our lives.

We fool ourselves into discounting the malignant threat of sin to our souls.

I Will Believe for You Until You Can Believe for Yourself

Phil Ware reminds us of Mark's story about Jesus and the four friends who dug a hole in the roof to get their buddy to Jesus.

During times of cascading badness, friends sometimes need to believe for those caught in the crush of seriously bad stuff.

The Whole World

Phil Ware continues his series on 'Beyond Bread and Wine' focusing on Jesus' death for the sin of the whole world and a special Sunday in Bangkok, Thailand.

Why is our sight so short-sided that we cannot see the whole world at Jesus' Table of grace?

I Doubt It: Never Die

Phil Ware continues his "I Doubt It" series focused today on Jesus' promise to Mary that those who believe in him will never die.

Can Jesus really promise us that we will never die?

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?

Touch

Phil Ware continues his series on Jesus' healing the man with Leprosy in Mark 1:35-45 and focuses in this post on Jesus' touch.

Without the personal touch, full healing never comes.

Look

Phil Ware begins an 8-part series on discipleship and following Jesus in caring for the hurt people of the world.

Take a look at what Jesus did and feel the call to do it, too!

Through the Keyhole of Grace

Phil Ware compares Jesus to a keyhole through which we look at God and the closer we get to Jesus the more clearly we see God.

What can we learn about God by looking at Jesus?

Deep Roots

Teresa Bell Kindred reminds us of the importance of growing deep roots of faith by the waters of God's grace.

What kind of legacy are we leaving for those around us?

Potholes Ahead

Rubel Shelly reminds us to not get knocked off our path when we encounter potholes, even big bad ones that do damage, but to keep pressing on and persevering toward the call of God.

While we cannot accurately predict the future, for most of us, there will be potholes in our path!

Yearning for the Presence

Phil Ware begins a series of messages about Immanuel, God with us, The Presence, in our lives that we yearn, ache, thirst for.

Why do we settle for so much less than the real thing?

Looking beyond Our Pigeonholes

Rubel Shelly reminds us that we can refuse to climb into the pigeonholes that other people have made for us because we know who our real Father is.

You know you don't fit, so why climb into someone else's pigeon hole for you?

Meeting God Outside the Box!

Phil Ware continues his series on Out of the Box and Luke 8 and Luke 9 and the limiting expectations we have for encountering and meeting God.

Where can we go and meet God?

Solid Ground or Sinking Sand?

Phil Ware continues his series on The Story by looking at Peter's confession of Jesus and how Jesus takes flawed, broken, messed-up people and builds his church that is unstoppable.

What are you building your life upon?

The Dirt, the Hole, the Tree, and the Question

Phil Ware shares another message in his Light on the Dark Side of the Mountain series, focusing on Abraham, Jesus, the dirt, the hole, the tree, and the question.

Do I really believe this stuff?

Grace Beyond the Miracle

Phil Ware talks about the events in the miracle stories that happen after the spectacle of the miracle takes place, the things that put people back into fellowship, community, and normalcy -- the way things were.

How come we focus on the spectacle and miss the greater miracle?

Love Path 911: Can We Have a Good Marriage?

Joe Beam answers the reader's question about having a good marriage again after all the hurt and sinfulness?

After all that has happened, can we have a good marriage?

Beyond Barely Saved?

Mike Barres challenges us to seek spiritual maturity.

Why should we be content to remain immature in Christ?