Articles Tagged 'Reality'

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.

The Spirit Opens Our Eyes to Truth

Ron Rose reminds us that without the Holy Spirit alive in us, we have no guide to help us understand the Scriptures, much less God or Jesus or the holy plans and promises for us!

"I remember when that knowledge really hit me for the first time... that to get the whole truth, you have to have the Holy Spirit.'

Dry Pine Needles and Cold, Dusty Attics

Phil Ware reminds us that as we clean up from Christmas and New Year, the mess left after the holidays should remind us of the hard times Jesus and his family faced after his birth.

Jesus' real-to-life circumstances, along with his dangerous predicaments caused by his divine reality, are comforting to me.

Mortality: Trying It on for Size

Rubel Shelly talks about a Korean project to help folks not commit suicide by helping them understand what death might be like.

A test run at death?

Mountains or Foothills

Perspective determines our perception of reality. Christians view things differently because of our belief in God.

Whether something is a mountain or a foothill depends on your perspective.

Don't Trust a Shadow

Rubel Shelly reminds us that image is not substance and shadow is not tree: trust the tree not the shadow!

Why do we chase after what is not substance?

Symbol and Reality

Bill Sherrill reminds us of the importance of the cross as both a symbol and a reality of our center as believers in Jesus.

Just how important is the cross as a symbol?

Facing Reality?

Paul Faulkner reminds us that funerals are great times for us to face the reality of our final destination.

Most folks just don't want to think about this, but they're going to have to do so!

Never the Same

Many events in our lives change us forever, our lives will never be the same as a result, and Jesus is one of those life-changing events.

Are you ready to have your life changed?

Suffering the Consequences?

Often the difficult things in our lives we want to blame on God are really only the result or consequences of our own bad choices and decisions and actions.

Are you tired of having to pay the piper?