Articles Tagged 'Preacher'

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.

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.

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?

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?

Mission and Bible Study

Phil Ware continues the series of articles on discerning your mission for churches to work through as they are in a season of looking for a preaching minister or pastor and Phil emphasizes both the universal mission passages and the specific mission passa

Hey, don't forget the greatest source of information on our mission, the Bible!

It Starts with Mission

Tim Woodroof begins a series of articles by Interim Ministry Partners on discovering a congregation's mission by talking about how churches want to find someone to fill the pulpit in a hurry when they first need to discover who they are and what their mis

Where do you begin to find a new preacher, pastor, or minister?

Make Your Preacher Want to Preach

Make your preacher's day, listen and learn.

What keeps your preacher preaching?

Do People Hear What Your Life Is Saying?

Russ Lawson reminds us of the importance of our letting our light shine in such a way that allows others to see God in your life.

What is the major message of your life?

Maybe You Can Tell Us Apart

Despite apparent differences, we Christians are the same in the things that matter.

Can you tell us apart?

What a Great Preacher!

The best preachers are not those we know but the ones Steve describes in this article who serve without pay and to bless others because that person wants them to know about Jesus!

So what really makes him great at preaching?

The Pleasure of Tight Boots

Sometimes the pleasure we get out of life has to be found in the most challenging of places.

Can you find anything good about tight shoes?