Articles Tagged 'Providence'

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.

God Put His SIGnature on You!

Phil Ware reminds us that we are all God's gifted children and that God has put his signature on each of us in three different ways.

Can you see God's signature on his masterpiece?

God at Work in You!

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in a virtual, DIY, worship through words and music using YouTube videos to remind us of God's grace to be at work within us for our ultimate Good.

Jesus demonstrated God's love powerfully while he was on earth and is now at the right hand of the Father with power to work in our lives for our good and God's glory.

He Holds Us in His Hand

Demetrius Collins and Phil Ware lead us in a virtual, DIY, worship through words and music using YouTube videos to open our hearts to God's promise to us as his people, Jesus' church, to walk with us, protect us, and lead us into the future.

God claims us as his beloved children. He has sacrificed for us to show us his love, and he promises to walk with us into the future.

Aligning My Steps with God's Plans!

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 use our worship guide for your home or group worship!

Beyond Trite Slogans to Real Help

Phil Ware writes about Romans 8:22-29, the bondage to decay that our world faces, our own troubles and hardships, and slogans that we often use and abuse to try to encourage people who are grieving, wounded, or hurt.

How can we say these things and really mean them when trying to help those who hurt?

God's Providence? Perhaps!

Steve Higginbotham connects us with God's amazing work at getting people together and helping them live as brothers in Christ both in Bible times and today!

Is this any less amazing than Paul’s unlikely meeting with Onesimus?

Life Happens!

Brian McCutchen uses the journey of Asaph in Psalm 73 to remind us that life happens to everyone, but God is with those who love him.

No one is exempt from life’s challenges.

It's His Problem to Solve

Rubel Shelly reminds us that trust in God to act is not passive, but an active life that does what is required, trusting that our difficulties and challenges are problems for God to solve.

So how do we obey these hard commands to not worry?

God Put His SIGnature on You!

Phil Ware reminds us that we are all God's gifted children and that God has put his signature on each of us in three different ways.

Can you see God's signature on his masterpiece?

The Things You Planned for Us!

Tom Norvell tries to get us to think in terms of what the Lord has planned for us.

What's the plan?

Traveling Mercies: Broken Dreams?

Phil Ware continues a series of messages called Traveling Mercies focusing on Moses and his journey from broken dreams to having those dreams realized in his life.

Are those old broken dreams really gone?

Beyond the Slogans

Phil Ware writes about Romans 8:22-29, the bondage to decay that our world faces, our own troubles and hardships, and slogans that we often use and abuse to try to encourage people who are grieving, wounded, or hurt.

How can we say these things and really mean them?

Your Half Full Glass

Rubel Shelly takes on the negative sentiment of the day and confronts it head on.

What are you doing with all the negative news?

I've Got Nothing!

Tom Norvell reminds us to listen to God when we feel like we have nothing to offer, and if we do, we will realize that is enough.

What do you do when you don't feel like you have anything to offer?

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Rubel Shelly uses an acronym and a website to remind us that it is going to be okay.

So what are you going to hang on to during the

Make a Faith Choice

Ron Rose talks about a couple that loses everything beside faith and then finds an opportunity to influence others for God.

When the world caves in, do you make a faith choice?

What a Way to Start the New Year!

Russ Lawson writes to remind us about God's work in our lives even when things are crazy and feel out of control.

What do you do when you are locked out of everything?

Be Not Afraid

Russ Lawson reminds us that even during these troubling times that God is at work to take care of us.

How can we not be afraid in times like this?

Hard Times Good for You?

Rubel Shelly reminds us of how hard times can actually shape us for the better and help us see our role in making the world a better place.

Can they really be a blessing?

The View from a Troubled Heart

Bill Sherrill connects to an old King James phrase, the latter days, and reminds us that we often don't see things clearly until time has passed and we view things from God's perspective.

What can we really see from where we are right now?

Trust His Timing

Tom Norvell shares reflections on Ecclesiastes 3:11 and the whole issue of timing and doing things at their right time.

Don't you find it hard to wait?

Is It Time Yet?

Russ Lawson reminds us that even though it is hard to wait patiently, God always responds to our prayers at just the right time and we should never give up asking him for his help.

Does he really act at just the right time?

The Jewel

Muriel Larson reminds of the great blessing we have from Romans 8:28

What's the most precious thing you've seen?

Too Much Rain!

Katha Winther reminds us that life can be full of periods of bad things and rainy days with floods, but God has not forsaken or abandoned us and will see us through.

What can you do when the rain falls and the floods come?

Good Things from Bad Situations?

Paul Faulkner shares several good things about bad things helping us focus on what is important.

Came something good come from bad situations?