Articles Tagged 'Rain' (Page 2)

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.

Last Words: First Priority

Phil Ware begins a series of messages on the Great Commission and Jesus' last words which must be our first priority.

Are we listening to what Jesus said?

Leaving the Classroom and Living the Life

Rick Brown talks about discipleship being more than sitting and learning, it involves going and doing.

Sooner or later, we have to leave school and start living what we know!

Find the Plot to Your Dots

Ron Rose shares a very personal story about his daughter and her husband and their grandchildren and an adoption and reminds us of car games when he was a child.

Can you tell what God is doing?

I Got Hacked!

Russ Lawson reminds us to put on the full armor of God so we don't get spiritually hacked.

Are you protected from outside attacks?

The Greatest Glory

Phil Ware continues his series of messages on true shepherds in the church and focuses on the subject of a leader's glory -- seeing his or her passion formed in others they have trained.

Where does a leader find true and lasting glory?

Beyond the Clouds

Tom Norvell talks about taking off in the pea soup of bad rainy weather and lifting up through the clouds and finding the sun and tying this all to our need to look beyond the clouds.

Can you see beyond the storm clouds in your life

Unrestrained Joy

Tom Norvell talks about a returning soldier being greeted by unrestrained joy by his wife and children and asked when was the last time you did that with God.

When's the last time you jumped up and down for joy?

Incarnational?

Phil Ware continues his LifeWORDS series and shares Jesus' Great Commission as a call to incarnational ministry and not just evangelism.

Surely Jesus is talking about something other than evangelism?

Just Part of the Job

Rubel Shelly reminds us that the real challenge is to be resourceful and take our meager resources and big challenges and put them in the hands of the Living God.

A brain injury and a call for the maintenance man?

Undo Send: What a Great Idea!

Rubel Shelly reminds us of our need to restrain our urge to speak too quickly and compares that to a new gmail feature called undo send

Don't you wish you could take back some things you've said?

Unveiling of Legacy

Ron Rose shares with us about legacy, faith, children, grandchildren, funerals, and the real inheritance we need to set aside for those who come after us.

What will you have to pass on to your children and grandchildren?

Sometimes the Hard Choice Is the Right Choice

Steve Higginbotham shares a powerful story about a conversation with a neurosurgeon who choose to be a daddy before being a recognized neurosurgeon.

What would you have chosen?

Leaving a Legacy of Faith

Paul Faulkner talks about four gifts that we can give our children to pass on to them a living legacy.

What can we really leave our children?

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?

A Little Washing

Ron Rose reminds us to find the faith moments in our days and step off and let God lead us in a little adventure.

Getting a little bored, then try a little God-adventure!

The Real Tragedy

An update on Jack Marcelain and his brain tumor recovery doesn't bring all good news, but Tammy is committed to not worry about it.

How can you not have your life blown apart by a brain tumor?

Got Your Spiritual Trainer?

Spiritual growth really requires us to have a spiritual trainer to help us with our spiritual discipline.

Who's training you to be God's servant?

Respecting Mom

Moms are crucial to the outcome of nations because of the way they rear their child.

Have you given her the respect and appreciation she deserves?

Rain Reminds Me of My Mother

Rain leaves this grown daughter to think about her mother and all that her mother means to her.

Do you remember anyone when it rains?

I Love You and I'm Sorry

Rain leaves this grown daughter to think about her mother and all that her mother means to her.

What will you tell your mother today?

The Kids Behind You

The generation coming behind us, the millenials, are not hopeless at all, but we must step up and help guide them.

Who will step up and point the way?

Better Get Used to It, Mr. McNair

An experience of Steve Mc Nair at training camp becomes the opportunity for all of us to remember we teach and train others.

Don't just hate being called that?

Passing It Along

We must live to pass along our faith to several generations, not just our kids.

Who are you living to bless?

Minimum Daily Requirement for Christian Parents

There are many simple things we can and must do to help our children have faith!

What's the least you can do for your children?

It Only Comes with Rain

Only God can bring new life with refreshment through his holy spirit.

Some things we just can't do!