Articles Tagged 'Past'

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.

The Pentecost Challenge

Ron Rose is back at Black Rifle Coffee Company and visiting with friends about Pentecost Sunday and knowing each other's names.

We long for the day when we know fully, even as we are fully known!

Leaving the Past, Living the Kingdom

Paul Faulkner reminds us that we need to live for the present to help others and keep our focus on the matters of the Kingdom rather than let our lives get filled with regret for the past.

How can I escape my past?

Leaving the Past, Living the Kingdom

Paul Faulkner reminds us that we need to live for the present to help others and keep our focus on the matters of the Kingdom rather than let our lives get filled with regret for the past.

How can I escape my past?

The Pentecost Challenge

Ron Rose is back at Black Rifle Coffee Company and visiting with friends about Pentecost Sunday and knowing each other's names.

We long for the day when we know fully, even as we are fully known!

A Time to Weep

Philip Gulley talks about his dad's heart surgery and his directions for his funeral service in case he didn't survive and the lasting impact this has had on Phillip's life.

What time is it in your relationship with your older friends and family? What time is it in your own life? Are you ready for closing time?

Made for This!

Melissa Troyer writes about the challenging realities of the roles we have to play and have to fill and then wonders, and embraces, that maybe these are exactly the roles God has made to embrace and fill.

All too often we cringe at the role we find ourselves filling, and filling beautifully, when in fact this is the role God made us to fill!

Family in the Fire

Phil Ware continues his reflections and convictions on becoming a JesuShaped disciple, this time focusing on the dangers and difficulties the Lord faced from his religious adversaries.

Jesus is among the familiar trappings of his heritage of faith and immediate family, both of whom are dangerously toxic to him and his ministry at this point in his journey.

The Good Shepherd

Demetrius Collins & Phil Ware lead through worship in song, the Lord's Supper, a powerful message from God's word about Jesus our good shepherd, along with a closing blessing for worship from home with family and friends in a meaningful way.

Imagine the audacity of Jesus to identify himself as the LORD, our shepherd, the one David praises in Psalm 23 as well the God of deliverance who identified himself to Moses at the burning bush in Exodus 3!

Tired, Uncertain, and Opening Our Church Doors, Again

Phil Ware introduces a series of weekly messages to help us deal with the challenges of the new world we are called to minister in today, focusing on the biblical foundation for answers to these challenges.

Their buildings might be closed, but their churches were still open and living out their mission.

How Do I Keep My Sinful Flesh in Check?

Phil Ware and Demetrius Collins invite us to worship God and keep our sinful nature, our flesh, in the past and nailed to the cross and lead us in worship through this practical home worship guide.

Those of us who have followed Jesus for any significant length of time know that keeping our sinful flesh in check is a challenge.

Ancient Wisdom, Today's Grace: Finding God's Will

Phil Ware begins a series for church leaders and congregations in transition which uses Paul's experiences in his ministry to Macedonian churches to help us in our struggles today.

Throughout the Bible, we find great examples that can help us sort through our challenges today.

A Good Ending

Tom Norvell reminds us that as far as failure goes, Peter pretty much leads the way, but he also leads the way in turnarounds and being called back to significant ministry.

We don't have to live in the mess of our mess up!

No Turning Back!

Phillip Morrison reminds us to focus forward and let go of the past.

We can't go back, so let's go forward with faith and determination and hope!

My Three-in-One New Year's Resolution

I stole the idea from the apostle Paul: three ways to focus on Jesus next year.

I just wanted to focus on one thing this next year. So here are three.

Neglected Expeditions

Phil Ware reminds us that in a search for a new minister, especially a preacher or preaching minister, that we need to know our specific mission as a congregation.

What are we forgetting before we try our ultimate ascent?

A Way Through the Ice Fall

Phil Ware continues his series of articles on churches facing the challenges of the interim season and uses the imagery of high mountain climbing to help us appreciate the challenges.

How do we avoid magical thinking and shortcuts that dangerously risk our doom?

Willing to Die on This Mountain

Phil Ware talks about finding our theological and missional mountains and how important it is to know them if you are going to call a minister with whom to partner.

What are the mountains you would die on for what you believe and what you are called to do?

But One Thing I Do!

Phil Ware reminds us to let the past stay in the past and gives us Paul's advice for moving beyond our past: forgetting, straining, pressing on.

How do we keep from letting the past dominate our future?

Revisionist History

Revisionist history makes us look better but changes nothing about our past. Jesus does.

There is only person who can truely revise your history.

Warming Up to Love!

Phil Ware shares more of his recent trip to Fortaleza, Brazil with Compassion International and the Nerd Herd to visit Compassion sites, projects, children, and churches.

What does a little girl do when a stranger from far away shows up at school?

You Can Stop Living in the Past

Jesus makes all things new, including your past. The "good old days" are still ahead -- no matter what your past looks like.

Far too many of us let our past control our future. It does not have to be that way.

When You Lead

Rubel Shelly reminds us of the real definition of a leader as someone who serves others because leadership is always for the sake of others.

Serving to bless is also the foundation on which we lead.

Hope in the Wilderness

Mark Frost of http://www.interimministrypartners.com shares part 1 of a 4 part series on the interim season by comparing it to the journey through the wilderness.

How do we live in the interim?

Time to Throw Away the Old Calendar

Do not stay rooted in your past successes or failures. Instead, embrace the future God has planned for you.

Love it or hate it... it is sure easy to live in the past.

Gifts and Mission

Tim Woodroof continues the series on a church finding or calling a new preaching minister or senior pastor, especially during interim ministry, and the key point is that a church needs to know who it is and what God has called them to do before they try t

How do our spiritual gifts help us determine our mission?