Articles Tagged 'Hostile'

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.

Using Our Freedom Redemptively

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in an online worship through words and music using YouTube videos to remind us we are free in Christ from bondage to sin, death, satan, hell, purposelessness, loneliness, so we can use our freedom to serve and liber

In our broken world where people say and do hostile things against us, we choose to use our freedom to serve them in love.

Broken: But NOT Forever!

James Nored and Phil Ware remind us that sin, both rebellion and missing God's goal of goodness for us, has reaped destruction on all we touch, but that this is not what God intended for us, there is redemption coming!

Why did this brokenness, this pain, this shattering, come upon us if it is not God's intention for us?

Where Are You?

James Nored and Phil Ware remind us that sin, both rebellion and missing God's goal of goodness for us, has reaped destruction on all we touch.

Why are our relationships with God such a mess, with each other full of conflict, and with our world so destructive?

Restoring the Creator's Intent

Phil Ware continues his series on the biblical view of women and God's plan to use Jesus' people to live out his purposes in his kingdom.

The divine goodness of our Creator has been ripped apart by human selfishness and suspicion, leaving behind its insidious and poisonous residues.

Keep on Speaking

Tom Norvell reminds us to keep on speaking up for the Lord even in hostile situations and difficult circumstances.

What will it take to make you back down?

The Change You Want to See

Rubel Shelly reminds us that a better world begins with what we do in the small acts of righteousness and kindness in the world around us.

If you could change the world, what would you want to see?

Family Messes

Christian people can be ugly and ungrateful, but we must be like Jesus in both the way we use our speech and the way we forgive others who are hateful and ungrateful.

How are we to handle the messes of life in the family of God?