Articles Tagged 'Member'

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.

Key Resources for Resurrection Sunday, Holy Week, Commission and Ascension Sundays

Phil Ware shares some great online resources for images for Holy Week and Resurrection Sunday.

That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched.

Key Resources for Resurrection Sunday, Holy Week, Commission and Ascension Sundays

Phil Ware shares some great online resources for images for Holy Week and Resurrection Sunday.

That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched.

Red to Honor, White to Remember

Phillip Morrison offers Encouraging Words about Mother's Day and the red or white flowers we wear in honor and to remember our mothers.

What will you do to remember and honor your mother?

Key Resources for Resurrection Sunday, Holy Week, Commission and Ascension Sundays

Phil Ware shares some great online resources for images for Holy Week and Resurrection Sunday.

That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched.

Three Easy Ways To Help Service Members in Your Community

Rhonda Underhill shares simple ways to help active service members and veterans with their adjustments to civilian life and provides many good links to services and resources that are helpful.

Living in a civilian world after being in service can be a tough transition, but with support from their community and friends like you, a service member's life can be much easier to navigate.

Where to Reach

Melissa Troyer reminds us of those mistakes made by our little ones when they are in their early exploration modes and how our job is not to load them down with rules but to show them where to reach.

I knew the picture looked different zoomed out.

Words We Long to Hear

Phil Ware continues his series called Beyond Bread and Wine and focuses on the three sets of words we most long to hear.

What words do you most long to hear from Jesus today?

What I Don't Remember about Christmas

Jordan shares this powerful post that was highlighted on The Today Show with our Heartlight.org audience.

Jesus picked this beginning because he knew our idols would someday reek of perfectionism and opulence, of measuring up and looking the part, of vanity.

Ancient Wisdom, Today's Grace: Singing the Jesus Song

Phil Ware continues his series on 'Ancient Wisdom, Today's Grace' and challenges us to follow Paul's example of using our songs to call us back to Jesus.

What can reach our hearts and call us to be like Jesus with power and emotion?

Joy Comes Because Jesus Comes

Max Lucado reminds us that Jesus appeared to Mary and what this exchange means to all of us.

You have not lived one moment when you were not loved.

A Circle of Love: Too!

Phil Ware takes us back to an old article from twenty years ago about a circle of love and a family that was sustained through tragedy and loss because of the love of friends.

When Jesus' family loves each other, even in our worst moments, we can find ourselves being carried!

What If?

Teresa Bell Kindred writes about the 24th anniversary of her mother's death and how it is still real to her and then she gives some good pointers on grief.

How do we handle our deepest grief?

Somewhere Down the Road

Phil Ware reminisces about his father's death and the years that have gone by and the reasons things happen and how we will know it all at the end of the Road, just like Amy Grant sings.

Do you ever long for someone who has gone home before you?

People in the Process of Mission

Greg Anderson continues the series from Interim Ministry Partners about helping a church discover its mission by focusing on the people in the process.

How do we hear from God about our mission?

Remember When?

Remembering the joy of our conversion can help us to live better today

Remember when you were baptized?

Bill Knapp's Keeps Me up at Night

Mark Frost of Interim Ministry Partners shares a powerful parable about Bill Knapp's restaurants and America's quick fix mentality about the North American church and its troubles.

How can an out of business restaurant speak to churches?

Learning to Trust

Brian McCutchen reminds us that life is full of surprises and many of them unwanted, but in the middle of the surprises is Yahweh-Jirah, the God who provides for us.

Yes Dad, I trust you?

Nothing Significant?

Phil Ware reminds us that nothing we do in the Lord's name is insignificant, unimportant, or forgotten by God who loves us and remembers and rewards us for what we do.

So why do we discount what the Lord does through us?

Stop by the Lobby and See My Underwear!

Phillip Morrison remembers a dear friend and patriot and faithful disciple named Bette Johnson.

What a strange way to get folks to a display on Memorial Day!

Red to Honor, White to Remember

Phillip Morrison offers Encouraging Words about Mother's Day and the red or white flowers we wear in honor and to remember our mothers.

What will you do to remember?

Members

The church isn't an organization; it's an organism. Membership isn't optional. If we are in Christ, in a saving relationship with him, then we are necessarily members of his body. Christians don't choose to belong to the church; if they belong to Christ,

What are we members of?

Faith and Traffic Lights

Rubel Shelly reminds us that our character and our faith are reflected as much by how we drive as how we go to church.

What does my faith have to do with how I drive?

Remembering

Image for memorial day.

Every sacrifice matters, that's why he came!

Thankful Turkeys

We sometimes fail to process how thankful we should be for what God has done to keep us from what we deserve.

Post thanksgiving turkeys have much to be thankful for. So do we.

Glory Awaits

Phil Ware reflects on the death of his grandfather, Daddy Gordon, and remembers his father's passing away, and is reminded of the floods in life that can't sweep away our hope.

In this season of memories, what should we hold on to most tightly?