Articles Tagged 'Preaching'

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.

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?

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?

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?

Make Your Preacher Want to Preach

Make your preacher's day, listen and learn.

What keeps your preacher preaching?

The Toll Over the Long Haul

Criticism hurts even when, or maybe especially when, it is dressed in pretty packages and given to us over a long time.

What difference does a little criticism really make?

With Power

The gospel is about a lot more than words -- without the power of a transformed life it means little.

Is it more than just mere words?

The Value of Sermons

Sermons are great and sorry, exciting and boring,

What's good about sermons?