Articles Tagged 'New Year'

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.

Celebrate!

God gives us each day as a day of celebration and newness.

Do you welcome each day with joy?

Aligning Our Plans with God's Purposes

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in virtual worship through words and music using YouTube videos and challenging us to re-align ourselves with God's purposes for us.

The year is still new, but the freshness feels a bit wilted with the ongoing pandemic and the political violence, but we can find hope and direction in God's promises!

Made New, Inside Out

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in virtual worship through words and music using YouTube videos and inviting us to continually be made new from the inside out.

Not only can we begin the New Year as a fresh start, but we can also be made new — from the inside out — each day as we follow Jesus!

ToGather.church for This Weekend is Ready!

Dr. Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware invite you to join us for our Sunday Verse of the Day home worship guide and videos, called ToGather.church!

You're invited to worship with other believers around the world!

So the World Will Know

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in virtual worship through words and music using YouTube videos and invite us to live as Jesus' bodily presence in the world, today.

Let's each pledge to use our spiritual gifts as different parts of Jesus' body and join together to live as Jesus in the world.

Our New Chapter

Jackie Halstead challenges us to take advantage of the New Year to begin writing a new chapter in our lives that brings grace to a world struggling with evil.

My response is to recognize God’s greatness and grace in using me as an instrument and with confidence move into this pure, unspotted new chapter.

Resolutions or Life-Quest?

Phil Ware challenges us to look beyond the New Year's resolutions on to a life pursuing Jesus.

Phil Ware challenges us to look beyond the New Year's resolutions on to a life pursuing Jesus.

Another Perspective

Byron Ware reminds us that even after a very hard year in 2016, we have good news to carry with us in 2017!

Was 2016 a hard year? So how are you going to face 2017?

Welcoming the Dawn of a New Year

The beginning of the New Year brings challenges and the potential for fear and reluctance, but with God we can welcome it and use it for his glory.

What will you do about a New Year?

New Wine and Old Skins

Phil Ware shares an insight on older people in the Bible and today who kept growing and changing through the years because they wanted to be more like Jesus.

Can we keep growing, or do we have to stop just because we age?

Holiday Trifecta

So as the schedules, demands and pressures of the Holiday Trifecta invade your world, house and family, allow me to offer a short blessing to you and all whom you hold dear

Putting the most into the holidays

The Best New Year Ever

Pay off my biggest debt, restore my most important relationship, and find real meaning and purpose for my life. Now that would be the best New Year ever.

How would you like to have the best New Year ever? Jesus can make it happen.

The NEW of New Years

Being a follower of Jesus makes one's life NEW and notice the words that said old things have passed away. When you make that decision to follow Jesus and are baptized, then your "old things" do not matter to God anymore; you are NEW.

The year is new… are you?

Prayer for 2014

Rubel Shelly re-shares a prayer for the New Year and a fresh start on life.

Let's begin with prayer!

The Year of Our Lord

Every man's life is divided into "Before Christ" and "After Christ." We come to know of him, we learn about him, then we decide. We decide to reject him and all that he stands for. Or we believe in him, and receive all that he has to offer.

His coming divided the history of the world into two parts

Counting Down or Ratcheting Up?

Phil Ware gives us three key principles to follow as we approach the New Year, ask the Lord what he wants us to do, learn to rest, and get to know Jesus better.

Learning to live in tune with God!

Will this be 'Lucky 13'?

Rubel Shelly writes about the New Year, 2013, and talks about what the year will bring and also about being superstitious.

So are you superstitious, or only a little stitious?

New Years and New Lives

New weeks and new years feel like new beginnings, but only God can truly make things new.

It's time to start over

Standing on the Edge of a new Adventure

Ron Rose writes about redemption and even more of sanctification, the slow work of God to transform us into something new and better and more like Him and reminds us that this is a process.

What does God have in store for this New Year?

What You Need to Move Ahead

Rick Brown reminds us that even though we may have already begun to slip back into the old way of living, the New Year can be bring us fresh life if we remember this.

Does the New Year already seem like an old one?

Get Your Head Out of the Clouds!

Phil Ware begins the New Year with an article or post about the book of Acts and the power of Jesus and the Holy Spirit to take broken people and use them powerfully to change the world.

Move beyond resolutions to Kingdom living!

The Futility of Resolutions

There is a certain futility in making resolutions. Only God can truly change us.

You know you can't change, right?

Something Fresh

Katha Winther shares insights on the New Year, fresh starts, and God's work of salvation in us!

Don't you want more than something new?

How Can We Best Prepare for 2010?

Larry Davies talks about spiritual ways to prepare and live out the year 2010.

How can we be prepared for the year ahead!

New Year - New Options

Rubel Shelly gives us some practical advice and a challenge to face the New Year with expectation and also reminds us to take one day at a time.

Are you tuned up to face the New Year?