Articles Tagged 'Idol'

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.

Caring for the Vulnerable

Phil Ware and Demetrius Collins lead us into worship through songs, Communion, and the Word God, inviting us to experience, proclaim and rejoice in the love of God for all people and to be stirred to share that love with others.

We are Jesus' heart, hands, and feet. Let's remind each other that we should bless the broken, forgotten, left out, and needy.

Re-Mastered!

Phil Ware gets personal about the idols in his life and wanting to be re-Mastered by Jesus.

What is really mastering us?

Choose This Day

We have to choose whether we want to serve God, and God alone, or serve something/someone else.

Who are you going to serve?

Worship Is a Lifestyle

Brian McCutchen talks about worship and how it must be a daily part of our lives or it is not real worship like the early Christians shared and lived.

It's not a Sunday morning deal we make with God!

Same Thing, Only Different

Phil Ware continues his series on the prodigal son called the journey home, this message is about how both sons wanted the same thing and both loved the father's stuff more than they loved the father.

How can we follow in the same pattern doing the same ol' thing yet it appear on the surface as something very different?

Simon's Mistaken Judgement

Rubel Shelly compares the prophet Samuel choosing a king to Simon Cowell's view of a woman from Scotland trying to sing and reminds us that outward appearances don't reveal talent or the heart of a person.

Where in the world did she come from?

Something Bigger

In a humorous teaser from comedians comes the important reminder that God is bigger!

What can be bigger than this?

The Light Within You

Some of us need sunlight all the time, but all of us need God's true light or we lose our way. So let's not settle for our own idols, for what is false and shadow.

What is your light?

Seeking God

Idolatry in India leads to a false notion that their gods are drinking milk, but the true and living God knows us and cares about us.

What god are you seeking?

The Cost of our Tickets

We show by our lifestyle and our choices if we really worship God or other gods.

Who or what really is our God?