Articles Tagged 'Rapture'

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.

8GHT: What Time Is It?

Phil Ware continues his short series on Acts 1:1-11 and focuses today on restoring the kingdom.

Our world is fractured and lost. It needs to see what the way of the Kingdom looks like in real life today!

The Revolutionary Power of Witnesses

Phil Ware continues his short series on Acts 1:1-11 and focuses today on being witnesses of the great things Jesus has done.

Let’s be witnesses with those here, near, and far (Acts 1:8) like the first followers of Jesus did!

What Time Is It?

Phil Ware continues his short series on Acts 1:1-11 and focuses today on restoring the kingdom.

Your world is fractured and lost. It needs to see what the way of the Kingdom looks like in real life today!

Preparing for the Lord's Second Coming

David W.T. Brattston reminds us of the kind of lives we need to live in preparation for the Lord's Coming.

We are to continue to live good Christian lives every day as preparation for the Lord's coming!

How to Discredit Christianity

Rubel Shelly reminds us that wild predictions about Jesus' return on specific dates often are used by sceptics to discredit Christianity.

Want to know how to make unbelievers disbelieve even more?

Restored to Life: Our real Salvation

Phil Ware continues his series on Out of the Box and focusing on the big Four primal fears that Jesus helps us address and he reminds us that salvation involves a from, for, and to component and shouldn't be simply elevator theology.

Saved every way a person can be saved

You'd Do It All Again

Max Lucado writes about the high cost of doing God's work and the hope, joy, and crown we will glory in when we go to be with Jesus and it will be all about people!

Why pay such a high price and take such a big risk?

Making Faith Look Foolish

Rubel Shelly talks about the end of the world, which a prediction missed once again, and how those who do not live faith embarrass the cause of Christ.

So when is Jesus' return?

Freedom from 'The Fear'

Phil Ware continues his 7 sayings of Jesus on the Cross with the meaning of the line today of "you will be with me in paradise" and talks about the hope it brings in the face of death.

What do you most fear?

Arriving Home

What happens to people when they die is a lot like trying to tell kids how much farther it is to granny's house!

When are we going to get there?

Not Distracted

We mustn't be distracted by the discussions about Jesus' return and lose sight of what is crucial about our discipleship.

Are you caught up in all the rapture debate?

Glory Awaits!

The eternal part of us, our life, is hidden away with Christ in God and glory awaits.

Where is your life hidden?

Ready to Go!

Don't you want to be ready to go when Jesus returns to take us home to glory?

Don't you want to be ready when the time comes?

A Little Faith

While we don't know why about why things happen here, we do know that one day our sorrow will melt into the joy of the Lord.

How do we lift our spirits on difficult days?

New Bodies and Close Calls

God will make us new and give us knew bodies when Christ comes again.

What will your new body look like?

The Pains of Childbirth

We are in the time of pain, the time of pregnancy, waiting for the birth of our ultimate life in with God.

What's it feel like to be pregnant?

Report Card Day

While we may be flawed, God is compassionate, loving, and forigiving, and through Jesus, he will find ways to save us!

What's your grade going to be?

This Loss of Dreams

To have to put off your wedding would be a great disappointment, but life is filled with disappointments -- that's why we need the hope we have in Jesus.

What a great disappointment to have to wait!